Our Thesis

Our mission is to find, fund, and found practical AI businesses.

Halfcorp was founded in 2023, at the dawn of the third wave of AI.

The second AI wave in the 80s and 90s laid the foundation for deep learning, but lacked the computing power to make it practical. Now, with training capacity measured in gigawatts, the computing bottleneck is gone, and the third wave is upon us.

We envision a future where the boundary between humans and intelligent machines disappears. A world where thoughts become real-world objects, where your distant descendants can have conversations with you, and where robotic limbs feel as natural as your own.

While that future is still on the horizon, we believe there are already profound opportunities to apply today's AI breakthroughs in practical, specific ways.

In this era, English has become the dominant programming language. Even if AI innovation stopped today, we'd have years of work ahead to integrate existing technologies across every industry.

The time of the single-person billion-dollar business is here.

Critics argue that AI “wrapper” companies lack intellectual property or a competitive edge because they depend on frontier AI platforms. But that's like saying the existence of Excel negates the need for Salesforce. The world needs more than a chatbot.

We are building businesses that have:

• Few founders and staff, augmented with AI agents.
• Niche domain expertise.
• Proprietary datasets.
• Full-stack operators who see the entire landscape and how different areas interconnect.

Who we are

A self-funded venture studio run by software entrepreneurs who've built, sold, and failed enough to know how patient one must be to see a good idea through. No boards, fund lifecycle, or pitch decks. Just capital, code, and the scar tissue to know what works.

What we do

We build software products around micro-problems, the unglamorous workflows buried in spreadsheets and manual workarounds, sitting inside macro markets large and fragmented enough to hide in plain sight.

We don't ship and run. In a world of infinite vibe-coded apps, it's easy to forget that the second S of SaaS, service, is still sorely needed. We operate at that layer. We design, build, and run these businesses end-to-end, treating the ongoing operation as the actual product. AI augments our tiny teams, anchored by our domain expertise.

How we partner

While we are a private shop, we are open to partnering with individual LPs who bring deep, specific industry knowledge in the spaces we're operating in.