Artificial intelligence
Useful intelligence. Real applications.
Products and companies built around AI, with human needs at the center. Alongside company creation, we put practical intelligence to work inside operating businesses.
03
AI & Fintech
From possibility to enterprise.
We connect AI, financial technology and digital infrastructure with entrepreneurial execution. Building new companies. Bringing practical intelligence into the businesses we operate.
Explore our approachIdeas
into
enterprise
Discover
Build
Apply
Grow
University partnerships
Technology transfer
Company creation
01 /Our strategy / Venture building
Intelligence. Put to work.
AI & Fintech is where emerging technology meets our entrepreneurial platform. We develop ideas, build companies, and connect university research with the work of bringing it into the world.
Our focus spans artificial intelligence, financial technology, digital infrastructure, university technology transfer and incubation. The opportunity is to turn promising IP into useful products—and useful products into operating businesses.
Financial technology
Make the complex more useful.
The tools and infrastructure behind how money moves and businesses operate. We look for opportunities to make financial workflows simpler, more connected and better suited to the people using them.
Digital infrastructure
New foundations. New possibilities.
We approach crypto through the businesses it can enable: infrastructure, products and useful applications of digital ownership. Technology with a clear purpose and a path into the real world.
02 /University partnerships & technology transfer
From campus to company.
University technology transfer is a bridge between discovery and enterprise. Our partnership model is designed to bring researchers, university teams and entrepreneurs together around what an idea could become.
We’re interested in the work that follows discovery: understanding the IP, identifying an application, assembling the right team, and building a path to market.
- 01
Discover
Start with the research and its commercial potential.
- 02
Connect
Bring university teams, founders and operators to the same table.
- 03
Build
Shape a product and an operating business around the opportunity.
03 /Incubation / Company creation
Give the idea a business around it.
Incubation brings the Unboxed platform into the earliest stages of company building. Capital formation, operating talent, technology, growth and partnerships work toward the same goal: a business with a reason to exist and the ability to grow.
- 01
Start with a thesis
Understand the opportunity, the customer and the problem worth solving.
- 02
Assemble the people
Connect founders, technical talent and operators around a shared direction.
- 03
Build the product
Develop the idea, test its usefulness and learn from the work.
- 04
Create the company
Bring the commercial model, operating capabilities and path to growth together.
04 /Company creation & applied intelligence
Create the new. Improve the everyday.
Company creation
We develop AI products and new technology businesses. The focus is company creation, original IP and incubation.
Applied intelligence
We bring practical intelligence into operating businesses. The focus is better tools, clearer decisions and the work people do every day.
A company behind the company.
Our technology businesses draw on Unboxed, an entrepreneurial holding company that acquires, builds and operates businesses. New ventures can draw on a wider entrepreneurial network and shared capabilities while developing an identity and team of their own.
Explore opportunities05 /The people & the practice
Company builders, at the table.
Eric Porper brings more than 25 years across technology, fintech, crypto infrastructure and company building. Nick Jordan brings more than 20 years as a founder, operator, advisor and investor. Their experience connects product decisions with the work of building a business.
Meet the Unboxed teamOur approach distinguishes new venture creation from applying AI inside an existing company. University partnerships are a proposed collaboration model, not a claim of signed institutional agreements.
06 /What we’re pursuing
A useful idea. A credible business.
We look for AI, fintech and digital infrastructure opportunities with a specific customer, a problem worth solving and a role for hands-on company building. University IP and founder-led businesses can enter that process at different stages.
- A defined user, buyer and practical application
- Clear ownership of the IP and a path to commercialization
- Founders or research teams ready to build alongside operators
Start with an opportunity.
Partnership inquiries / scope and fit established together
Take research into a company
Explore a commercial application for promising IP, then shape the team, product and business around it.
What to bring to the conversation
Start with a nonconfidential summary, IP status, application and development stage. The first discussion assesses commercial fit and a possible partnership structure.
Build the next venture
Bring an AI, fintech or digital infrastructure business where product work, operating support or a new ownership chapter could unlock progress.
What to bring to the conversation
Share the customer problem, current product, commercial progress and the role you want Unboxed to play.
Put AI to work
Start with a specific workflow. Explore how practical intelligence could help people work with less friction and better information.
What to bring to the conversation
Describe the workflow, data access, current constraints and how you would measure a useful result.
Bring your perspective.
Let’s find the fit.
Introduce the opportunity and the role you have in mind. We’ll start with the business, the people and what a useful next step could look like.
Start a conversation