tf Forge · Venture Studio
The forge for tech-driven ventures.
tf Forge is Touchfoundry's venture studio. We partner with founders to incubate and accelerate tech-driven businesses - bringing the product expertise, capability and strategy to build them with you, not just for you.
We only build what we'd back ourselves.
What it is
A studio, not a supplier.
tf Forge takes an idea, or an early venture, and builds it into a real product with a real market. A business that stands on its own - not a deck, not a demo.
We are not here to bill hours. We co-build - bringing what a founder usually can't buy off the shelf, and taking a share in the outcome. Same team, same craft as the studio, pointed at ventures we're part of.
Product expertise
Strategy, design and engineering under one roof - the same craft behind the studio's client work, turned on your venture.
Capability
A full build team on tap. We become the product and tech team you'd otherwise spend a year trying to hire.
Strategy
Commercial thinking from day one - the model, the market and the path to traction, not just the build.
Who it's for
Founders and businesses we can back.
Whether you're starting from a blank page or scaling something already moving, tf Forge partners two ways. Either way, we only take on ventures - and people - we genuinely believe in.
Incubate
You have an idea and conviction, not a product. We help shape it, build the first version and take it to market - co-founding the venture from the raw material up.
Accelerate
You have a business with early traction but not the product or tech muscle to scale it. We bring the capability to build, sharpen and grow what's already working.
How it works
From raw idea to running venture.
Fit
We find the right partnership
It starts with belief. We move forward only when we back the founder, the idea and the market - and when we can meaningfully move the needle. Then we agree how we partner.
Shape
Strategy and product
We pressure-test the idea into a plan: the product, the model, the audience and the path to traction. The raw material takes shape before a line is built.
Build
We build it with you
Our team becomes your build team - product, design and engineering - shipping a real product, not a prototype. This is the forge doing its work.
Grow
We stay in it
We don't hand over and walk away. We iterate, launch and grow alongside you, aligned to the venture's success because our stake is tied to it.
Partnership models
Structured around the case.
There's no single deal. We shape the partnership around the venture and what it needs - and we only do it when we're backing you.
Whatever the structure, the constant holds: we only forge with people and businesses we'd bet on.
The bar
We build with skin in the game. Or not at all.
Every venture in the forge is one we chose to back with our own capability, and often our own capital. That's the filter - and it's why founders get a partner, not a vendor.
In the forge
What we're building right now.
A look at the ventures on the anvil - co-built with their founders through tf Forge.
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One modern platform for a whole property portfolio - management, leasing, cases, payments, marketing and residents in one place. Built to replace South Africa's old, disconnected REIT software stack, or sit on top of the systems already running.
Bring us what you're building
Have something worth building?
If you're a founder with conviction and a tech-driven idea, or a business ready to build what's next, let's talk. Worst case, a sharp conversation. Best case, your next venture.