Roniin is a Chicago-based startup studio that sources business ideas from busy entrepreneurs and spins them off into independent startups. The nine-month-old, 17-person team recruits CEOs, handles administrative setup and vendor/document selection, and helps launch the new companies. Roniin typically retains roughly 10–30% ownership in each spinout and grants ideators or chairs an additional roughly 5–15%; all parties dilute together when outside funding arrives. Several of its spinouts have already attracted seed capital, with Attendant raising $700,000 and Officeluv raising $800,000; a third company has also secured seed funding. The studio aims to match serial-entrepreneur ideas with experienced operators while preserving each company's independent culture by remaining mostly remote. Roniin recently raised capital to expand operations and continue building its pipeline of spinouts.

Total raised

$3M

Funding rounds

1

Latest round

Seed

Latest activity

Jul 2015