228 x Brooklyn Nets Small Business Partnership

Integrated services, capital, and technology solutions.

Available to companies across industries and growth stages through a single partnership.

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We've worked with companies you know today, and companies you'll know tomorrow.

Alchemy
Alpaca
Alpha
Brooklyn Nets
Google
HarbourVest
JP Morgan
Morgan Stanley
Nasdaq Private Market
NYCE
Plaid
Vanta
Services

Compress the time between

idea and execution.

World-class engineering and operating resources to accelerate growth with startup tenacity and proven excellence.

Build products, tools, and workflows on your terms with a plug-and-play, full-stack engineering team.

  • Full-stack engineering on demand
  • Rapid product research, development, and iteration
  • Architecture audits and workflow modernization
  • Existing relationships with leading vendors
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How It Works

From first contact to measurable growth.

1

Rapid Diagnostic

A deep dive into your product, market, team, and growth challenges.

2

Partnership Design

We design your integration model, assemble your team, and set success metrics.

3

Go Live

We start shipping code, recommendations, and results.

4

Compound Growth

Iterate, expand, measure, and reach your milestones.

1

Rapid Diagnostic

A deep dive into your product, market, team, and growth challenges.

2

Partnership Design

We design your integration model, assemble your team, and set success metrics.

3

Go Live

We start shipping code, recommendations, and results.

4

Compound Growth

Iterate, expand, measure, and reach your milestones.

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Investments

Checks with unfair edges.

We back disruptive ideas and durable businesses from inception to scale. Our partners gain access to benefits that reduce risk and unlock growth.

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Technical Advantage

We have shipped at scale and understand how to build great products. Leverage our battle-tested infrastructure, tooling, and models.

Access & Distribution

Access our firmwide capabilities and networks for customer introductions, partnership opportunities, talent pipelines, and investor introductions.

Operating Repository

Implement shortcuts derived from our studio practice and years of experience building and scaling companies.

SAFER

Simple Agreement For Equity Return: an instrument for early-stage fundraising that provides optionality for founders and investors.

Who We Back

Startups

Founders with earned insights, exceptional product taste, and a bias to ship in markets where speed, quality, and distribution decide outcomes.

GPs & Funds

Generalist and specialist managers seeking capital paired with technical and operating capabilities for their portfolio companies.

Products

An operating system

for every business.

Purpose-built tools to keep your business running, so you can focus on the work that really matters.

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Our Products

Our venture studio's internal tools and releases become generally available once early users find them indispensable. We build each one to delight users and maintain enterprise trust.

Products We Love

The essential tools in our partner network, with preferential access and perks for the 228 ecosystem.

About

228 is a venture-building platform.

Our bespoke services generate investment capital and provide insights for product development. Each engagement compounds value across our offerings at an increasing pace.

Our team brings deep experience in starting, scaling, and investing in companies. We care deeply about what we build, who we build with, and who we build for.

We serve a global customer base from our New York City headquarters.

We continuously review career inquiries from talented individuals across various disciplines and geographies for both in-person and remote roles.

Ready to build?

Whether you're a founder with a vision, a small business experimenting with AI, or an enterprise launching a new vertical—let's build what's next.

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