Ventures
Fordcastle builds products and durable assets, directly and through its venture arm Chorus — and takes equity in what it helps create. Our ventures sort into three questions of healthspan: for people, for the animals we live alongside, and for the places that shape us all.
Concepts we’re actively prototyping — small, fast bets that either earn their way into the portfolio or teach us something and retire.
Concept
Positioning the bathroom as a preventive-health hub: an industry convening layer, a consumer data trust, and a systems-investing fund.
Concept
A knowledge-graph and agent platform that turns scattered context into structured, queryable intelligence.
Platform
Our open-innovation engine for running structured proof-of-concept studies between incumbents and health-tech startups.
People — human healthspan.
Fordcastle venture
Chorus
Our open-innovation platform — the operating engine that runs structured proof-of-concept studies between incumbents and health-tech startups.
chorusproject.io →Fordcastle concept
Bathroom Health OS
Positioning the bathroom as a preventive-health hub — an industry convening layer, a consumer data trust, and a systems-investing fund.
Fordcastle concept
Merlin
A knowledge-graph and agent platform that turns scattered context into structured, queryable intelligence.
Pets — animal healthspan.
Venture
The Longevity Vet
A companion-animal longevity practice and knowledge platform — extending healthy years in pets through clinical protocols, a consumer assessment tool, and an API pet-tech products can build on.
thelongevityvet.com.au →Venture
Tilly
A warm, chat-based pet-health assistant — guiding owners through onboarding, tracking weight, photos, symptoms and activity over time, with weekly check-ins and smart escalation to the vet.
Venture
The Pet Society
Pet-inclusive hospitality — helping the travel and hospitality world welcome pets as guests, so owners and their animals can go more places together.
thepetsociety.com.au →Planet — environmental & built-environment health.
Venture
Healthy Habitats
A global collective of mission-driven innovators advancing a shift towards healthy habitats — places that nurture, protect and sustain people and planet.
healthyhabitats.net →We don’t only advise — we build. Fordcastle creates products and durable assets directly and through its venture arm Chorus, and takes equity in what it helps create. The consulting work surfaces the opportunities; the venture work turns the strongest of them into companies.
Small bets start as experiments. The ones that prove out earn capital, partners, and a place in the portfolio. We back founders where our access, evidence discipline, and systems view give the venture an unfair advantage.