The Technology Division of IMS Group
IMS Labs is the technology division of IMS Group. A decade of proprietary in-house engineering across software, blockchain, and AI is deployed across every division of the Group and into the portfolio companies we have backed.
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IMS Labs replaces the manual workflows, analyst hours, and operational drag inside ICM, IMS Digital Ventures, Sports Capital, and the portfolio companies with trained, agentic systems that carry context from across every division.
IMS Labs builds the platforms that open new markets and revenue streams for the Group, from blockchain and tokenisation to Web3 commerce and real-world asset infrastructure, shipping each one before the rest of the industry catches up. The divisions then deploy and monetise the platforms wherever they create the most value.
Every IMS Labs platform runs inside the Group before it goes anywhere else. Tested on real operations, real capital, real risk across the IMS partnership. The technology that survives production is the IP that lifts enterprise value across the rest of it.
Who we are
We are
Builders who take long-term technology bets.
Computer science purists with frontier ambition.
Embedded operators who run our own platforms inside the Group first.
Architects of compounding systems.
We are not
Trend chasers.
A pilot factory or lab without a P&L.
Generalist consultants.
A vendor selling someone else's stack.
“Build what no one else will build. Architecture before adoption. Fundamentals outlive fads. We don't build to sell. We build to compound.”
IMS Labs doesn't sell AI to outside clients. It builds the stack, packages it into platforms, and embeds it across every division of IMS Group and into the portfolio companies the partnership has backed.
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Frontier LLMs are commodities. The proprietary architecture around them is not. IMS Labs builds the foundation the Group depends on: agent frameworks, compound AI systems, memory cores, reasoning engines, and evaluation pipelines.
This is the layer every Group division and every portfolio company sits on top of.
On top of the foundation, IMS Labs ships productised platforms with real customers inside the Group. Cortex turns research into ICM underwriting decisions. Onyx anchors provenance for the Group's real-world asset positions. Nimbus runs commerce for the consumer portfolio.
Three platforms, deployed across every division of the Group.
Every IMS Labs platform earns its place by being embedded inside the Group first. Once the Group runs on the IMS Labs stack, the results show up where they matter most: revenue, margin, and enterprise value across every entity in the partnership.
Three platforms
Purpose-built for hard operational problems. Industry-agnostic by design, so the same technology compounds enterprise value wherever the same problem exists.
The intelligence layer for private capital.
From deal sourcing to investment committee decision in minutes. Cortex compresses two-week underwriting cycles to under two hours, running a 41-agent mesh across research and extraction, risk modelling, and decisioning, all paired with a Mixture-of-Experts reasoning core. The output is investment-committee-grade deal memos with sourced data, risk matrices, and recommendation scores, shipped in time to act on the opportunity.
The truth layer for real-world assets.
Patent-backed provenance, digital twins, and tokenised ownership from mine to market. Onyx's Trace Code anchors chain-of-custody for assets institutional capital would otherwise refuse to touch: diamonds, rare earths, agricultural supply chains, luxury collectibles, mining-asset positions. Every real-world asset becomes tradable and verifiable on-chain.
The agentic ecosystem for global commerce.
AI agents running commerce autonomously. Inventory, pricing, personalisation, CRM, campaigns, and fulfilment, all orchestrated by an agentic mesh across 20+ markets. Multi-currency commerce infrastructure that does the work a 50-person ops team would do manually.
Underlying capabilities
Coordinated AI swarms executing enterprise workflows.
Mixture-of-Experts architectures for complex reasoning.
Cross-entity pattern recognition and risk modelling.
Real-asset modelling for tokenised ownership and provenance.
Proprietary chain-of-custody anchoring for physical assets.
Regulatory-ready issuance and secondary trading rails.
AI-driven customer modelling across commerce surfaces.
Behavioural and pricing intelligence across 20+ markets.
Across the Group
We back top-tier founders with skin in the game across frontier technologies, pairing equity-for-tech terms with the operating partnership behind every commitment.
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