We build it with you.
We bet with you.
We win with you.
nuCode gives early-stage founders a CTO and an engineering team in exchange for equity. Our payout is your exit.
Portfolio Companies
Products Shipped
Raised by Portfolio
We invest engineering, not money.
Senior engineers, CTO-level judgement, and skin in the cap table.
Technical Co-Founder
A CTO in the room for architecture calls, hiring, and investor diligence. Equity instead of a six-figure salary.
Development Teams
Senior engineers, architects, and QA you can pull onto your roadmap in a week. Add or remove capacity per sprint.
Equity Partnership
We take 1–10% equity instead of invoicing. That's how we stay past your seed round.
Engineering across the stack
Engineering capabilities our team ships in production.
AI & Applied ML
Production inference, RAG pipelines, agent systems, model ops
Distributed Systems
Payments infrastructure, real-time data, scaling architecture
Web3 & Crypto Rails
Smart contracts, Bitcoin & Lightning, custody, tokenization
Product Engineering
Full-stack web, native mobile, design systems, dev tooling
How an engagement runs
From the first call to shipping product, here's what to expect.
Discovery
Two or three calls to map the product, the constraints, and what good looks like at Series A.
Technical Architecture
Stack choices, infra plan, and a build sequence you can show investors.
Build & Launch
Fractional CTO, an embedded squad, or both. Right-sized to what you're shipping next.
Scale & Support
Continued partnership as you grow. Hand off to your own team when ready.
Startups we've helped build
What we've shipped in production across industries.
Production ML infrastructure
From research prototype to scalable inference engine. We handle the ops so you focus on the model.
Financial regulation ready
SOC 2, HIPAA, PCI-DSS. Compliance designed in at the schema level, not patched on before audit.
From MVP to thousands of users
Solid architecture scales. We design for growth so you don't rebuild your database at 10K users.
Tell us what you're building.
If you need engineering now and can offer equity, we want to talk. First call is 20 minutes.