venture builder · 0→1 · ai
i build companies, products, and experiments from zero to one.
I’m Dima Durah, a venture builder. I spot opportunities, shape products, assemble what is needed to build them, and take the first useful version into the market.
I build especially well around AI and technical products. I understand ML engineers, AI researchers, and engineering leaders building or improving AI agents, and I can turn early product pull into a repeatable path to growth.
$82m+
Raised by companies and rounds I supported
8+
Products taken from 0 to 1
3
Exits and acquisitions supported
100k+
People brought into communities and programs
15+
Countries reached through launches and partnerships
introduction
an idea, turned into something real the market can respond to.
Venture building means moving between the idea, the product, and the market without treating them as separate jobs. It starts with a real opportunity, not a polished theory.
I investigate the problem, shape the proposition, build the first version, recruit collaborators, and launch quickly enough to learn. My 10 years of experience in product marketing and GTM help me find the right users, make technical value legible, and build systems around the products that earn pull.
selected work
- 01
Living Assets
Positioning a new category of AI discoverability
Built an AI discovery primitive, shaping positioning, product narrative, and market education around making brand data discoverable by frontier models and search agents.
- 02
Veil by claai
Launching a creator-first position on model training
Co-created and launched a machine-learning tool that lets creators opt their images out of unauthorised scraping and model training.
- 03
OwnID
Identity as trust infrastructure for AI-native workflows
Helped build the commercial foundation for a passwordless identity company, shaping its messaging, go-to-market architecture, and sales outreach strategy.
- 04
spectral finance
Productising a machine-learning credit model
Helped shape an early machine-learning credit product and its narrative around scoring on-chain behaviour without identity.
- 05
OSS GTM Playbook
An open-source GTM system for ML and developer-tool teams
Created a practical, public playbook for teams building open-source ML, data, and developer products.
- 06
sap startup ecosystem
Ecosystem GTM for enterprise AI and data startups
Built founder, partner, and ecosystem programmes that connected SAP’s startup work to the people and conversations shaping enterprise AI, data, and emerging technology.
Venture building, end to end
I spot the opportunity
I find useful tensions in markets, technology, and culture, then turn them into a clear venture thesis worth testing.
I validate what matters
I research users, shape the proposition, and run focused experiments to learn what deserves to become a product before overbuilding it.
I build and launch
I take ideas from concept to first version, bringing together product thinking, collaborators, narrative, partnerships, and launch execution.
I build the path to growth
Product marketing and GTM are tools in the kit: positioning, technical messaging, targeting, outbound, CRM, experiments, and automation.
how I work
strategy that looks good in a deck and dies in a handoff is not the job.
I work closely with founders, product leaders, engineers, customers, and commercial teams. I ask enough questions to find the real constraint, make a clear call, build the first version quickly, and use the market to improve it.
Clarity over theatre.
Make the product easy to understand and hard to dismiss.
Momentum over ceremony.
Ship the useful version, then learn in public and in market.
Taste with evidence.
Good judgment matters. So does listening to what users actually do.
Systems over one-offs.
A launch should create the conditions for the next launch to work better.
current
I run Record Scratch, an independent studio where I build products and experiments to stay close to the work.
Record Scratch is my venture studio: a place to turn ideas into products, test unusual propositions, and build from zero to one. The work combines product development, AI, storytelling, product marketing, and go-to-market execution.
I also write about technology, culture, AI, and the systems that shape how we live with them, and I keep a public library of what I am reading.
