Built by a founder with 18+ years across innovation strategy, intellectual property, and venture creation. Tech Nation Global Talent endorsed.
Ostanes Ventures is a studio. We start with intelligence (surfacing what patent landscapes and standard market reports cannot), publish strategic foresight under the Horizons imprint, and build outwards into ventures where the analysis points to opportunity.
AI-native patent intelligence connecting patent claims to materials science. For deep-tech VCs, R&D directors, and IP professionals who need to know whether the science behind the filings holds.
Learn moreDecision-grade strategic foresight reports for senior insiders. Each report applies six analytical commitments and ships as a coordinated family of artefacts. Bilingual public summaries, full reports on request.
Learn moreCo-founding and scaling deep-tech startups in materials, energy, and applied AI. Selective, thesis-driven, built on intelligence.
Ostanes Ventures is led by Masoud Zamani, a London-based founder with 18+ years across deep-tech innovation, IP strategy, and venture creation. Tech Nation Global Talent endorsed.
Read the full backgroundThe name Ostanes appears in classical sources as a Persian magus, named by Pliny as the first to write of the magical arts and revered through medieval times as one of the great authorities in alchemy. The signal is provenance: ancient wisdom rendered as modern foresight.