A trusted software & AI partner for VC firms

Teknika helps VC firms accelerate and de-risk their portfolio companies with software development, staff augmentation, AI implementation, technical consulting, and fractional leadership.
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We understand the needs of VC

When portfolio companies need technical help, who you introduce matters. You need a vendor that is credible, responsive, founder-friendly, and capable of solving real problems without creating new ones.

Reputational excellence

When you recommend a vendor, your credibility is attached. We take that seriously.  Our leadership lives this standard, and our track record reflects this.

Help companies move faster

From staffing gaps to execution bottlenecks, we help teams accelerate their execution.

Increase your value-add

VC firms benefit from offering potential portfolio companies a suite of force-multiplying benefits in addition to funding.

Cover multiple needs with one partner

Software, AI, staffing, and technical guidance — all under one roof.

Our toolkit for accelerating companies

We support portfolio companies in the situations where founders most often need outside help.

Software development

Product builds, platform development, rebuilding weak systems, shipping faster.

AI systems and automation

Practical AI implementation, workflow automation, internal tools, and integrations.

Staff augmentation

Developers, AI talent, designers, DevOps, QA, and technical support staff.

Technical leadership & consulting

Fractional CTO support, architecture guidance, delivery oversight, and technical decision-making.

Cost reduction with equity

For select companies we offer steep cost savings in exchange for equity with SAFE-style mechanics.

Big Risk, Mitigated

Technology is an enormous risk - both from execution and cost.  We increase the odds for success.

66%

of software projects experience cost overruns

*Study from Standish Group (Chaos Report)

70%

of software projects miss timelines

*Study from Standish Group (Chaos Report)

42%

of development cost can go to technical debt and maintenance

*Stripe's Developer Coefficient Report

20-30%

higher revenue growth and profitability for companies with strong software delivery excellence

*McKinsey

We are equity friendly

We can offer significantly discounted prices and more integrated technical leadership to portfolio companies for equity.

Note: To preserve the quality of this offering, it is reserved for opportunities that are both compelling and a great cultural and needs-capabilities match.

Discount accumulates on a ledger

Discounts are tracked transparently, offering clear visibility into your savings.

Converts to equity under SAFE-style conversion mechanics

Your accumulated discounts seamlessly convert into equity using SAFE-style mechanics.

About Teknika

Teknika is a US-based software and AI development firm, headquartered in Panama City Beach, FL, with our team across the US and Europe.

We've been building since 2019 — long enough to have a real track record, short enough to still move fast. We're not a middleman, a body shop, or a broker. We build and deliver custom products, which is exactly why a partnership with us is worth something,

2019

In business since

Dozens

Projects delivered per year

50+

Staff across US & Europe

2 continents

We deliver around the clock, from US to Europe.

Full-stack product development

Web, mobile, desktop, AI, cloud — from MVP to enterprise-scale. We manage the full lifecycle, not just the code.

AI implementation & automation

LLM integrations, AI-enabled features, and workflow automation built into real products for real clients.

Custom solutions or staff augmentation

Our collaboration options are flexible to meet the needs of different client types and projects.

Frank is a pragmatic and delivery oriented builder. His early career was in mechanical engineering, with a focus on rapid prototyping and design for manufacture.

He co-founded Teknika in 2019 with a mission to build software solutions at scale with the same practicality and relentless focus on solving problems that help businesses excel.

FRANK EASTHAM

CO-FOUNDER, CEO

Steve is the founder of multiple successful tech companies, including Gain Technologies, which developed the USB 2.0 integrated circuit chip. 

Relentlessly focused ontech innovation and efficiency, he helped establish Teknika to solve the software gap in North-west Florida and to support the growing tech ecosystem and portfolio of companies in his tech incubator and VC network.

STEVE MILLAWAY

CO-FOUNDER, ADVISOR

Wide and deep experience

We fully manage and craft digital solutions that solve your business needs.

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Chaos Audio

Software ecosystem surrounding the Stratus - multi-effect guitar pedal.

INDUSTRY

Entertainment

TECHNOLOGIES

Flutter, C#/.net, Angular, AWS

PLATFORM

Mobile
UI/UX
Hardware
Partnership
Web app

Daily Adventure Box

Daily Adventure Box provides un-attended rental kiosks for outdoor sports equipment to hotels, resorts, etc. Through their mobile app, users can book and pay for their rentals as well as unlock the cubby holding their equipment. A corporate dashboard provides oversight and optimization of all lockers and locations being serviced.

INDUSTRY

Recreation

TECHNOLOGIES

Flutter, C#/.net, Angular, AWS

PLATFORM

Mobile
UI/UX
Web app
Hardware
AI

Digital Sportsman

Digital Sportsman set an ambition mission - to be the industry dominating software platform for enabling outdoors sporting businesses and connecting them with adventure seekers.
For outdoor business owners, the platform consisted of 16 complex modules covering every aspect of their back office processes to allow them to increase business and scale.  All functionality could be accessed on both desktop and mobile to accommodate their need to “run their business in the field.”  AI functionality was leveraged at every opportunity to enhance the platform.
On the customer facing side, thrill seekers could access a mobile app and web interface to search for activities, connect with guides, plan trips, etc.

INDUSTRY

Recreation / SMB

TECHNOLOGIES

Ruby on Rails, React, Flutter, AWS

PLATFORM

Web app
Mobile
UI/UX
AI

Fuuled

A rapidly growing fuel delivery service business desired a full featured software solution to both manage and scale their business as well as prepare them for franchising opportunities.
On the customer side, they needed an intuitive customer experience that covered everything from subscriptions, on-demand requests, solutions for businesses with fleets of vehicles, etc.
On the operations side, their fuel delivery drivers needed an app to manage scheduling, routes and requests.  In addition, the software needed to integrate with their fuel pumps to measure fuel delivered at each job.
On the backend/admin side, they needed to track and manage all aspects of the business.

INDUSTRY

Delivery / SMB

TECHNOLOGIES

Futter, C#/.net, AWS

PLATFORM

Mobile
Web app
UI/UX

NDA - AI Proposal Generation

A client with deep experience in government procurement identified that emerging AI technologies could be leveraged to help government contractors to both generate a higher volume of proposals and greatly enhance the quality and probability of success.
Teknika developed a comprehensive SaaS platform to streamline and enhance the complicated proposal workflow for companies.  AI was incorporated in multiple ways to revolutionize the matching of contractors with opportunities, craft proposals with higher probabilities of success, and match/coordinate perfect partnerships between companies to pursue solicitations.

INDUSTRY

SMB & Enterprise

TECHNOLOGIES

C#/.net, Angular, AWS

PLATFORM

Web app
AI
UI/UX

FoamManParts

The spray foam industry involves hundreds of different models of specialized equipment and associated parts and consumables.  Existing ecommerce solutions were not sufficient to give a streamlined shopping process that manages all the interrelated compatibilities between equipment and parts and accessories.
This client engaged Teknika to make the most convenient and intuitive ecommerce experience for the busy spray foam professional. Teknika’s solution was a ground up ecommerce platform with industry specific interfaces that allow users to save their unique combination of equipment and easily view all compatible products as well as find parts using the equipment manuals they are already familiar with.

INDUSTRY

Construction

TECHNOLOGIES

Laravel (PHP)

PLATFORM

E-comm
Web app
UI/UX
AI

Alarm ID

Perceptive Sensor Technologies provides acoustic fluid level sensors to industrial customers. They required software to allow their clients to monitor thousands of sensors installed on oil storage tanks.
We developed software so their customers could manage and monitor thousands of sensors installed on hundreds of oil storage tanks.
The interface was designed such that the software could be equally usable on tv screens and tablets – in any lighting condition.

INDUSTRY

Oil & Gas / Environmental

TECHNOLOGIES

C#.net, .Net Maui

PLATFORM

Desktop
UI/UX
Hardware

NDA - Corporate training and compliance opportunity engine

A fortune 100 company had a legacy software system that they used to identify certification and capabilities gaps in their client company's IT staff that was preventing them from being eligible/compliant for complex projects.  This system was plagued with technical debt causing unacceptable down time and bugs for their users.
Teknika’s team was brought on to overall the maintenance and feature evolution regime for the project by implementing development and quality assurance best practices.  In parallel, we did a complete technical review of their software and identified the highest priority technical debt to refactor to increase stability and maintainability.

INDUSTRY

Enterprise

TECHNOLOGIES

Ruby on Rails, React

PLATFORM

Web app
UI/UX
Consulting

Grunt

Grunt approached us in a crisis, their previous development company had promised the moon yet could only deliver excuses - not a functional application.  
Teknika partnered with Grunt to now only takeover development responsibility, but also serve as technical leadership for their company. We triaged their existing codebase and determined that it had so many fundamental flaws that we could build it faster and better from scratch.  We quickly mocked up the application and determined UX flows that would greatly enhance both the user experience and the backend management of the app.  With full alignment on the mockups, we developed a cross platform mobile application and web admin under tight timeline constrains. We continue to support this application.

INDUSTRY

Delivery

TECHNOLOGIES

Flutter, C#/.net, Angular, AWS

PLATFORM

Mobile
Web app
UI/UX
Partnership

Rubberduck

Rubberduck is a Danish company offering fast and convenient wheel and tire change services performed at the customer’s location.
We developed a web platform for their staff to manage the entire business. We also created a fast and intuitive customer booking process to onboard new customers.
Rubberduck enjoyed such success with their new software that they asked us to implement a web shop for selling tires as well – a great expansion of their business model!

INDUSTRY

SMB

TECHNOLOGIES

React, C#/.net, AWS

PLATFORM

Web app
UI/UX
E-comm
Website

Agents Paid AI

The real estate industry is notoriously behind on technology and heavily reliant on repetitive work by real estate agents.  A client with a successful brokerage engaged Teknika to implement their vision for increasing agent efficiency and solving their major pain points.
Teknika architected a solution that utilized several AI tools to gather information in an agent’s workflow and process, behind the scenes, serving as a technological co-pilot for a busy agent.
From the beginning, the project was designed for a longer term AI data play that could use the gathered data on agent activity to train and LLM to provide data and analysis valuable to other parts of the real estate industry.

INDUSTRY

Real Estate

TECHNOLOGIES

PLATFORM

UI/UX
Consulting
AI

Waffle House

The director of marketing for Waffle House engaged Teknika due to concerns that their mobile app was far behind their competitors with regard to functionality, user experience, and aesthetics.

Teknika did a comprehensive UI/UX analysis of their existing application.  After identifying and noting dated or unintuitive aspects of the design, we generated mockups of an improved application with regard to both user experience (UX) and aesthetics (UI).

To assist stakeholders at Waffle House, we organized these changes into Before and After arrangement that concisely explained problems we identified, improvements we implemented and reasoning behind it.

INDUSTRY

Hospitality

TECHNOLOGIES

Figma

PLATFORM

UI/UX
Consulting

Jobeo

Jobeo is the “TikTok of job searching and recruiting!”.
Employers can post video-based job ads where job seekers can see who they’ll be working, how the work environment looks and feels, etc.
Candidates can create video applications that showcase their soft skills, personality, and other qualities lost on a paper application.
The project includes three components — mobile app for convenient use, a full screen web application for corporate access, and a landing page for marketing.

INDUSTRY

Recruiting

TECHNOLOGIES

Flutter, Node.js, React

PLATFORM

Mobile
Web app
UI/UX

Rainey's Marketplace

A client with an online clothing rental business desired to scale her business by implementing a peer-to-peer (P2P) platform to reduce inventory overhead as well as being the bottleneck for distribution.  Not to mention giving mom’s across the country the ability to generate income by “monetizing their closet.”

Teknika built a web platform to facilitate this platform and streamline all steps of the transaction such as ratings, disputes, moderations, shipping, taxes, refunds, etc. - all with a intuitive interface flow for users.

INDUSTRY

Fashion / P2P

TECHNOLOGIES

C#/.net, Angular, AWS

PLATFORM

E-comm
Web app
UI/UX
Partnership

MySprayRig

A client that had businesses in multiple verticals of the spray foam insulation industry desired to scale their custom spray foam contractor trailer business and provide customers with a site where they could customize every aspect of their desired rig.
Teknika built an intuitive interface that enabled customers to understand all the available options. As a first in the industry, customer could independently and confidently configure a rig to meet their unique business needs - all the while ensuring compatibility of all choices.
The app integrated with the client’s inventory and construction systems allowing them to scale sales and manufacturing to dominate their competitors.

INDUSTRY

Construction

TECHNOLOGIES

PLATFORM

Web app
E-comm
UI/UX

Software patent drawings

A patent attorney approached Teknika looking for help in communicating the functionality of software that they were submitting to the U.S. Patent Office for patent approval.

INDUSTRY

IP and Trademark

TECHNOLOGIES

Figma

PLATFORM

UI/UX
Consulting

Happyly

Happyly is an enterprise tool that empowers employees to easily meet and build connections through meaningful activities and experiences. A corporate dashboard and employee mobile app provides employees with amazing work life balance opportunities.

INDUSTRY

Corporate

TECHNOLOGIES

C#/.NET, Angular, AWS

PLATFORM

Web app
UI/UX

MarketPros

MarketPros solves the trust problem in real estate. It is the only platform that aggregates only agents that are experienced and fully vetted.
Agents can join the platform to be connected with qualified buyers and referrals.
Buyers have an intuitive interface where they can search for real estate agents by location and other important criteria to find the perfect agent.`

INDUSTRY

Real Estate

TECHNOLOGIES

Angular, C#/.net

PLATFORM

Web app
UI/UX

The Knoo

The Knoo is a mobile app that provides a comprehensive business management platform for modern entertainment professionals.
Inside the app, social media analytics are aggregated into one place where they can be managed, analyzed, and shared. There are built in communication tools to network with other entertainers, managers, and venues and scheduling tools to easily book gigs and get paid on time.
For the first time, entertainers, managers, and venues are effortlessly connected!

INDUSTRY

Entertainment

TECHNOLOGIES

Flutter, C#/.net, Angular, AWS

PLATFORM

UI/UX
Mobile
Web app

GOALD

GOALD was designed to add the missing component to digital goal setting applications – the human element! A highly technical tool that is human focused!

INDUSTRY

Consumer - Self-help

TECHNOLOGIES

Figma

PLATFORM

UI/UX
Consulting
Mobile

GAIN

The vision of Gain was to become the most detailed and intuitive repository of startup data. This highly filterable database would be valuable tool for investors, founders, and developers.
Our implementation of this vision started with an internal design competition between designers in our company in order to offer the client aesthetic concepts to choose from. We then did a competitive analysis and UX study in order to create an interface and functionality that was intuitive and useful to actual users.
This responsive web application was designed from the beginning to be “white-label” ready (easily repurposed to other data types beyond startups) and multi-lingual ready.

INDUSTRY

VC

TECHNOLOGIES

Figma

PLATFORM

UI/UX
Consulting

MyOKR

“OKR” stands for Objective and Key Results. OKR’s are a goal-setting and leadership tool used in large corporations. MyOKR represents the first app ever to apply the principles of OKR to help individuals with self-improvement goals.

INDUSTRY

Consumer - Productivity

TECHNOLOGIES

Flutter, C#/.net, AWS

PLATFORM

Mobile
UI/UX

What our clients say

"The Teknika design team was the standout of the engagement"
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Michelle Faul
CMO, Digital Sportsman
"Teknika’s promptness in addressing issues and concerns was impressive."
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Brian Ritter
President, Ritter Law Group
"Teknika’s backend and architecture work were impressive."
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Oliver Georg Jensen
CEO, Rubberduck
"Teknika has been an essential partner in our success!"
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Landon McCoy
CEO, Chaos Audio
"Teknika's ability to expand on my ideas and make them functional was impressive."
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Gunther VanWinkle
CEO, Fuuled
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Common questions, answered

Everything you need to know about how the partnership works, how we structure deals, and who this model is designed for.

What does it mean for Teknika to be a technology partner to a VC fund?

Teknika works with VC firms as an on-call technical partner for portfolio companies — providing technical due diligence on prospective investments, hands-on engineering support for portfolio companies that need it, and an outside technical perspective the fund can lean on without hiring an in-house CTO-for-hire.

How does Teknika support technical due diligence during the investment process?

Teknika can review a target company's codebase, architecture, and engineering team capacity before a fund closes a deal, surfacing risks like unscalable infrastructure, vibe-coded prototypes that won't survive growth, key-person dependency, or security gaps — then delivers a plain-English risk summary the investment team can use alongside financial and legal diligence.

What kind of technical risks does Teknika flag that founders or funds might miss?

Common risks include codebases built quickly with AI-assisted tools that lack production-grade architecture, a single engineer holding all institutional knowledge, no automated testing or CI/CD, unaddressed security vulnerabilities, and infrastructure choices that won't scale past early traction — all of which affect a company's runway and follow-on fundability.

Once a fund invests, how does Teknika help portfolio companies?

Teknika's full suite of capablities is on offer - full project engagements to rebuild or productionize a prototype, staff agmentation to fill gaps, and ongoing technical advisory and fractional technical leadership - letting a fund's operating partners point portfolio founders to a vetted technical resource instead of a cold vendor search.

Why would a VC fund recommend Teknika instead of letting portfolio companies find their own dev shop?

It is notoriously difficult to vet a technology service provider. Many of our clients have squandered hundreds of thousands, even millions on hiring technology partners without the experience to know red flags to look for. Teknika was literally founded at the suggestion of our VC fund owning co-founder who saw this happen time and again and wanted a reliable tech partner.

Also, potential portfolio companies desire a VC fund with this kind of network and support.

Does Teknika work with portfolio companies that have already built an MVP with no-code or AI tools (Bolt, Lovable, Cursor, Replit)?

Yes — this is one of Teknika's core specialties. Teknika evaluates "vibe-coded" prototypes, reframes the existing build as a usable blueprint rather than wasted work, and provides a clear path to a production-grade rebuild, which is a common need for seed and Series A portfolio companies scaling past their first prototype.

How does engagement pricing work for portfolio companies — does the fund pay, or does the portfolio company pay?

Typically, portfolio companies pay directly at standard rates. For select situations, we also can work at significant discounts in exchange for equity that converts using SAFE-like mechanics.

Has Teknika worked with venture-backed or accelerator-affiliated companies before?

Yes — Teknika's portfolio includes work with Techstars Atlanta companies and TechFarms Capital, alongside hardware-integrated products and a Fortune 100 legacy modernization engagement, giving Teknika direct experience with the pace and constraints of venture-backed technical teams.

What size and stage of portfolio companies is Teknika best suited for?

Teknika is best suited to seed through Series B portfolio companies — past the earliest no-code prototype stage and needing to scale engineering capacity, rebuild for production, or fill specialized skill gaps like AI/automation or hardware-software integration.

Does working with Teknika create any conflict of interest across competing portfolio companies?

Teknika does not share proprietary information, code, or strategy between client engagements, and funds can request that Teknika avoid concurrent engagements with directly competing portfolio companies if relevant.

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