We Create Businesses That Unlock Growth

Venture Harbour is the world’s-first bootstrapped venture studio. Each year, we build a new venture with one rule; It must be more ambitious than the last.

We unlock growth in people, businesses and economies by building ventures that solve the biggest challenges facing tomorrow’s leading companies.

The Better Way to Build Ambitious, Independent Businesses.

Our ventures are entirely bootstrapped and funded by customers, forcing us to focus on building products that customers, not investors, love.

The Latest

Insights & guides from Venture Harbour’s growth marketing, engineering & product teams on how to successfully grow a bootstrapped startup.

Featured Guides & ArticlesMarketing
September 21, 2020

The Ultimate Marketing Plan in 5 Steps

Create a growth marketing plan in five steps using the same battle-tested process we use for our ventures.
10 Best Email Marketing Software ToolsFeatured Guides & Articles
December 21, 2015

10 Best Email Marketing Software Tools for 2023

We whittled 670+ email marketing tools down to the top 10 for 2023 by surveying 1,782 marketers and rigorously testing them on our portfolio of ventures.
Featured Guides & ArticlesMarketing
January 19, 2014

The Ultimate Startup Marketing Strategy

28 lessons for rapid startup growth from our own portfolio – and the growth teams at HubSpot, Dropbox, AirBnB & more.