Venture Studio  ·  Toronto

SHORT
CIRCUIT

Niche today. Category tomorrow.

We move first.

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01 Who We Are

ShortCircuit is a venture studio at the frontier of AI agents, tokenization, and the ownership economy. We find opportunities before they have names, build fast enough to own the niche, and ship products that challenge how things are supposed to work.

We're not waiting for the future. We're building it.

02 What We Believe
01

The best opportunities look like bad ideas until they don't.

02

We move at startup speed.
We think at civilization scale.

03

Ownership is not a feature.
It's the product.

04

Technology should give people sovereignty, not dependency.

03 What We've Built
01
Live
Tokenization · AI Infra

dAI
Index

The first decentralized AI index. Build, backtest, and tokenize custom indexes on AI infrastructure tokens — deployed as ERC-4626 vaults on 0G network.

openw3b.io ↗
02
Live
AI Agents · DeFi

Lobster
Arena

AI trading battle royale on Hyperliquid. Deploy an OpenClaw-powered lobster, compete in 7-day seasons. The market decides who survives.

openclawarena.gg ↗
03
Building
AI SaaS · Business Intel

Claw for
Business

AI ops for modern teams. Connect your live data — Shopify, Analytics, Ads, Sheets — to an intelligence layer that actually knows your company.

openclawforbusiness.io ↗
In build

The next niche is already in motion.

04 How We Work

01

Speed to Validity

We don't spend a year planning. We build a version, put it in front of real people, and learn faster than anyone else in the room.

02

Paradox Thinking

The best ideas sound wrong at first. We actively seek positions that feel contradictory — that's usually where the real opportunity lives.

03

Niche First

Every category starts as a niche. We find it before it has competition, build the best product there, and grow from a position of ownership.

04

Ownership Economy

We build products where users own the value they create. Not as a gimmick — as a fundamental design decision. Users as stakeholders, not customers.

05

Sovereignty by Design

Products should give people more control over their data, money, and future — not less. Sovereignty isn't a feature, it's an architectural commitment.

06

Ship. Test. Evolve.

Shipping is how you learn. We iterate in public, adapt to signal fast, and move at a pace the market doesn't expect from a studio.

05 For Good

Technology should work for everyone.

Beyond the venture work, we build for people who can't pay. Developing nations, underserved communities, the ones that technology usually passes by. We believe the same tools we build at the frontier should be available to people on the ground.

Humanitarian projects don't follow an ROI model. They follow a different kind of math — reach, dignity, and access. We fund these with the commercial work, and we build them with the same intensity.

"Every short circuit needs a ground."

Build something
that matters.

Partner with us. Pitch us. Join us.
Or just say hello — we read everything.

hey@shortcircuit.ventures

Or find us on the frontier — we're usually there first.