Biwada builds and owns software and quantitative businesses. Every company in our portfolio runs on shared infrastructure and agentic workflows, letting a small team ship fast, keep risk tight, and compound what works.
Biwada is the parent company behind Starling Quantitative and Airlock Studio. Alongside those two core businesses, we run an internal venture arm to test low-cost, high-upside product ideas in real markets.
Our quantitative research and forecasting desk. Starling finds mispriced probabilities across event and derivatives markets using multi-model consensus, Power and Shin devigging, out-of-sample Brier calibration, and strict Fractional Kelly sizing.
Our software studio building straightforward, flat-rate tools for small and midsize businesses tired of bloated SaaS contracts. Every product is built in a strict two-room clean-room process (17 U.S.C. § 102(b)) from original specs.
Beyond our two core studios, we take selective swings on low-investment, high-upside commercial ideas where buyer demand is strong and existing options are weak. Because our core infrastructure is already built, we launch fast and test real willingness to pay.
Most startups burn months and six figures rebuilding basic plumbing before learning if anyone wants the product. Biwada runs every business on one shared, agent-native operating system so new ideas ship in days and capital only follows real traction.
Cloud hosting, multi-tenant auth, Stripe billing, domains, security scanning, analytics, and automated bookkeeping are already wired at the parent level. When we start a new business, we skip months of setup and go straight to shipping the product at near-zero marginal cost.
Specialized AI agents are built into every layer of how we work, not bolted on as an afterthought. Agent workflows drive market research, clean-room specs, full-stack engineering, automated browser QA, and search distribution, giving a lean team the output of a much larger firm while keeping key decisions in human hands.
Nothing gets a blank check. Every new product starts on a tiny, hard-capped budget and must prove real demand, conversion, and margin at each stage before unlocking more time or capital. Ideas that miss cost almost nothing, and proven winners scale fast.
In most portfolios, wins stay trapped inside separate companies. Because our businesses share one operating layer, any breakthrough built for one brand—from statistical pricing models to automated security gates and organic growth engines—rolls out across the rest of the portfolio the same day.
In the indigenous Taíno language of Borikén (Puerto Rico), Bi means life or beginning, and Wada (from Guada) means garden.
Traditional polyculture gardens grew distinct, complementary crops in the same prepared soil so the whole plot stayed productive and resilient across seasons. Biwada works the same way: independent businesses in quantitative research, software, and commercial ventures growing from one shared root system.
Biwada was founded in Raleigh, North Carolina by Greg Meade, an engineering leader, systems architect, and quantitative builder.
Greg combines enterprise software leadership with hands-on work in probabilistic modeling, agentic engineering systems, and full-stack product delivery, building businesses around clear unit economics, clean architecture, and disciplined risk.