Our venture studio brings together partners with complementary perspectives, capabilities and capital to identify high-value opportunities, validate solutions and build scalable companies.

By involving industry, academia and investors throughout the venture-building process, we create companies around real market needs, supported by credible evidence and a clear pathway from concept to adoption and growth.

Why partner with us

Rail and mobility innovation is too complex to happen in isolation.

Industry understands the problems, academia brings specialist knowledge and emerging technology, and investors provide the capital and experience needed to scale.

Future Travel Studio connects these capabilities in a structured venture-building model - creating a high-performance environment where partners can shape opportunities, contribute expertise and help promising startup teams to succeed.

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How we help

Industry Partners

Who it’s for

Train operators, infrastructure owners and managers, manufacturers, transport authorities, consultancies and other organisations seeking new solutions to customer, operational, technical and sustainability challenges across rail and mobility.

Industry partners help surface meaningful market problems, define the outcomes that matter and pressure-test potential solutions. Each partner contributes through an annual subscription and appoints an innovation leader to participate in our investment panel.

What’s in it for you

Partners shape the challenges we address, gain early access to emerging ventures and help ensure solutions are built around genuine industry needs.

This provides a structured route to innovation beyond the constraints of internal programmes, with opportunities to test, adopt, invest in or acquire ventures that respond directly to your priorities.

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Academic Partners

Who it’s for

Universities and research institutions able to contribute applied research, technical expertise and founder talent to rail and mobility ventures.

Academic partners extend the studio’s delivery capability beyond our in-house team. Depending on the venture, they may support feasibility, product development, prototyping, validation and funded R&D. They also provide a pipeline of potential venture founders.

What’s in it for you

Future Travel Studio provides paid research and development opportunities linked to clearly defined, industry-validated challenges.

Academic partners can also put forward high-potential students and researchers for our accelerator programmes, giving them a structured route to become founders, develop solutions and build investable ventures from their expertise.

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Downstream VC Investors

Who it’s for

Venture capital funds, corporate investors and strategic industry investors seeking credible opportunities in rail and mobility.

We provide early seed funding and hands-on venture-building support, preparing companies for Series A investment. Downstream venture capital partners then provide follow-on funding to accelerate growth and scale.

What’s in it for you

Access to a repeatable pipeline of de-risked rail and mobility ventures. We define and validate industry problems, select and seed the strongest founder teams, then support them through incubation to build investment readiness, enterprise readiness and industry traction before follow-on funding.

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Give us the problems to solve. Our process surfaces, defines, and shapes them into investable ventures.

Please get in touch below and we will contact you as soon as we can to discuss your enquiry. We look forward to any partner opportunities and moving the industry forward, one venture at a time.