For existing AI companies
You have the product. We have the customers who need it.
The hardest part of an enterprise AI startup is not the model — it is the eighteen months it takes to get into a serious organisation and stay there. The Cronos Group already sits inside hundreds of them. We open that door and help you survive what is behind it.
Fit
Who this is for
- Post-prototype AI companies with paying users or a serious design partner
- Founders whose bottleneck is enterprise distribution, not engineering
- Teams building for sectors where Cronos already operates at scale
What you get
What the Lab actually brings.
01
Warm enterprise distribution
Introductions to real budget owners inside the Cronos client base, with someone in the room who has worked with them for years.
02
Engineering depth on tap
Access to specialists across the Cronos Group — data engineering, security, integration — without hiring for a six-week problem.
03
Capital, when it fits
We invest where the fit is genuine. We are equally happy to be a partner and a customer without taking equity.
04
A peer group
A cohort of founders solving the same enterprise problems, and operators who have already done it.
Process
How it works.
Step 01
Introduction
Tell us what you have built and where you are stuck. We reply within five working days.
Step 02
Deep dive
A working session with the Lab team and the relevant Cronos practice leads.
Step 03
Fit test
We identify two or three concrete client situations and test whether your product actually lands.
Step 04
Partnership
Commercial partnership, investment, or both — structured around what you actually need.
Tell us about your startup
We read every submission. Lead with your strongest traction metric, and give us the number.
Not the right fit?
Work on AI systems that reach production, alongside people who have shipped them.