01Industry
Vertical AI
Domain-specific AI that owns a workflow end-to-end — legal, claims, revenue cycle, compliance.
Volume 01 · Issue 02San Francisco · Lahore · DubaiSpring 2026
Capital for founders building architecture, not features chasing a trend.
Turing Venture Capital writes first checks at pre-seed and seed in founders building durable systems — the substrate beneath the wrappers, not the wrappers themselves. We bring capital, a hundred-plus-engineer bench, and a network across San Francisco, Lahore, and Dubai.
$5M+
Capital deployed
40+
Founders backed
100+
Engineers on bench
7 days
Decision SLA
Founders we are proud to back
Fine Gold Technologies·
TMG Global·
Lamhay·
Cleo Cards·
Odus Group·
PeoplePlus·
Century48·
YAAY365·
Fine Gold Technologies·
TMG Global·
Lamhay·
Cleo Cards·
Odus Group·
PeoplePlus·
Century48·
YAAY365·
§ Thesis
The next decade rewards architecture.
The internet rewarded distribution. Mobile rewarded behavior. AI rewards architecture.
The next decade’s category-defining companies won’t be the loudest — they’ll be the most structurally sound. Proprietary data loops. Defensible model strategies. Distribution that compounds. Operators who think in systems instead of sprints.
“Hype is a temporary tactic. Architecture is a permanent advantage.”
We don’t write checks against trends. We write checks against structural beliefs about how the next decade gets built — and we tell you, in writing, what we will and won’t fund.
§ Industries
Six categories. One lens.
Where our engineering bench, operating experience, and customer access give founders an unfair advantage. Read the full thesis for what we won’t fund.
02Industry
Agentic Infrastructure
Eval, observability, guardrails, and orchestration for production agents that take consequential action.
03Industry
Healthcare Technology
Clinical workflow software with proprietary data accumulation and regulatory depth.
04Industry
Enterprise SaaS
Vertical workflow engines for the regulated industries the horizontals can’t reach.
05Industry
Fintech Infrastructure
Rails, embedded primitives, B2B payments — especially with emerging-market exposure.
06Industry
Devtools & Infrastructure
The picks-and-shovels powering the next generation of AI-native companies.
Hamad Pervaiz, Founder & Managing Partner. Photographed in Gstaad.
§ Founder
Operator-led. Architect-trained.
“A check is the start, not the deliverable. We earn our seat by doing the work alongside founders, not auditing them from a distance.”
Hamad has spent fifteen years architecting mission-critical software for Fortune 500 enterprises and high-growth startups. Founder & CEO of BearPlex (one-hundred-plus engineers). Chairman of Odus Group. Founder of PeoplePlus.
Keynote at TechCrunch Disrupt Battlefield 200 (San Francisco, 2025) and Japan IT Week (Tokyo, 2026). Writes the Architecture Memos — read by founders and operators across three continents — and brings every one of those reps into the room when Turing evaluates a deal.
15+
Years operating
4
Active ventures
3
Continents
§ Beyond the checkSix things every Turing
Six things every Turing
portfolio company gets.
Auditable. Named. Optional. We back what our bench can credibly support — and we tell you in writing what we won’t do.
01
A free architecture review
A senior engineer spends a day on your stack in your first 90 days. Written memo. You own it. No strings.
02
Sprint Zero
One paid 2-week sprint at portfolio rates to ship a prototype or de-risk a hard technical bet. Optional, never required.
03
AI infrastructure depth
RAG pipelines, agent systems, evals, model routing. The things 2026 startups burn six months learning.
04
A hiring pipeline
When you build your own team, BearPlex recruiters source candidates at cost. We want you off our bench.
05
MENA enterprise GTM
Real warm intros to procurement at Odus and PeoplePlus customers across the Gulf.
06
A founder peer network
Direct line to forty-plus portfolio CEOs solving the same problems you are.
§ Featured resourceThe Cross-Border Founder
The Cross-Border Founder
Operating Manual.
Six chapters, ten country playbooks, ~69 minutes of reading. Written for the non-US founder building a Delaware C-corp from Lahore, Cairo, Dubai, São Paulo, or Manila.
Now live: the Architecture Audit — twelve questions, four pillars, ten minutes. Coming next on the roadmap: the Engineering Team Topology Diagnostic and the AI Pricing Diagnostic. Free. No email gate. Same frameworks we use when reviewing companies.
§ Architecture Memos
All memos →What we’re thinking about, defended in writing.
March 2026·14 min read
The Code Delusion
Why the entire software industry is lying to itself.
February 2026·11 min read
The Architect Economy
Why builders will own the next decade.
February 2025·9 min read
Agentic AI and the Death of the Tool User
Autonomous systems and the displacement of tool users.
§ PortfolioForty-plus founders.
Forty-plus founders.
Four pillars. One lens.
We organize the portfolio by the thesis pillar each company maps to — not by sector or stage. The pillar tells you why we backed them.
See the portfolio§ ApplyBuilding architecture?
Building architecture?
Tell us in two paragraphs.
We respond to every pitch within seven days of the deep dive. Including a no, with a reason. No warm intro required. No diligence theater.