Naboth
Photography and videography, owned and run by two friends. The craft is already there; the business around the craft is what we are building.
Moov is a blended capital fund: grants, loans and equity for founders who would never clear a bank's filter or a venture fund's model. Backed by investors who believe money exists to build people.
The founders I most want to back are the ones capital ignores. A seamstress whose blouse label could employ five people. Two friends with cameras and a full order book. A cafeteria feeding a neighbourhood. A bank sees no collateral. A venture fund sees no exit. I see a business that can hold a family, and then a street.
Moov backs those businesses with whichever instrument actually fits. Some need a grant, because the first stitch of a business should not be debt. Some need a loan priced to be repayable by a real shop in a real town. A few need equity and a partner in the room. Most funds pick one instrument and force every founder through it. We start from the founder and pick the instrument.
The capital comes from investors who share a conviction: that profit is a tool for building people, not the other way round. We call them kingdom-minded and we are not embarrassed by the phrase. The return we underwrite first is a founder who can stand on their own.
And money is the smallest thing we hand over. A Moov founder gets structure: bookkeeping that works, a web presence from SCube's bench, pricing argued over honestly, and someone to call before signing anything. The plan for each of the four below is the same plan. Money, then systems, then customers, then their own first hire.
None of them are large. That is the design, not an apology. Every one is being built to a stage, not to a slide deck, and I will publish their stories as they earn them.
Photography and videography, owned and run by two friends. The craft is already there; the business around the craft is what we are building.
A boutique blouse label, stitched to order. Small batch, real margins, and a founder who knows exactly what she is making.
Money envelopes designed for Christian occasions. A tiny product with a devoted audience, which is a better start than a big product with none.
My wife's cafeteria. Open, serving, teaching us daily that hospitality is the hardest operations problem there is.
Equipping does not start at founders. It starts earlier, with a first salary. SCube's hiring model, training people in smaller Indian cities into real engineering careers, is the same fund paying out in a different currency. Some of the people we train will stay and lead. Some will leave and start things. Both outcomes are the point, and the second kind already knows where to find Moov.