Thrilld Labs Partners with Xablu Venture Studio

We’re thrilld to team up with Xablu Venture Studio, a global consultancy firm building ventures, products, and teams, and helping projects work towards their goals.

Xablu, the broader development house underpinning the venture studio, has established a solid track record of software development and technical expertise since it was founded in 2014.

Our Partnership 

We have known the team behind Xablu for a couple of years now, yet from the end of Q1 2026 Xablu Venture Studio has been working alongside ourselves to accelerate the development and scaling of our two applications.

The co-creation of our upcoming product offerings is rooted in a shared belief in the blockchain industry, Web3-powered tech, as well as our conviction to build good products in the networking and events space, hereby directly combining Thrilld Labs’ domain expertise with Xablu's, indeed, venture-building expertise.

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Instead of building towards assumptions only, we have been focussing on what proves value in the (events) market. Thanks to their development team we deploy a fast feedback loop, sharper prioritization, and hence less wasted effort in time and cash.

More precisely, the collaboration comes in light of our new dApp, Thrilld Events, and additional features as well as updates in the Thrilld Networking App, and finally for the software, tech, and platforms used in our company internally. Development decisions are made jointly, with a strong focus on speed and KPIs.

As a co-builder, the Xablu team also works directly with our team on product strategy and scaling.


Xablu’s Approach

Just like Thrilld Labs, Xablu is a Dutch company with a globally distributed team.

Built by CEO Henk Kok and Managing Partner Arjan ten Buuren who both bring years of experience in software development, project building, and even investing, their team works to co-create and build companies through services such as strategic advising and coaching, to up-skilling teams, and product and software development.

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Xablu operates through a product management perspective, whereby they outline a clear process of product development from the initial conceptualization to final deployment. This is meant to ensure trackable progress (for all parties involved), transparency (what we love), and that a project is finished within a timely manner.

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Development & Venture Building
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A rather foundational service that we will draw attention to is about their offerings for web, mobile and desktop application development and DevOps. This much comes at hand as we are scaling the networking app for the upcoming event season and beyond. New features shall be developed with more conference focus whilst existing user and event features are refined, and the overall offering shall become, we believe, more scalable.

Xablu also supports projects by designing the UX (user experience) of a product, which becomes key, especially in terms of our new Thrilld Events offering. Beyond this initial planning and design, the new application shall be audited, tested, measured, and additional feedback is collected and used to continuously improve the product experience. At Thrilld Labs, we remain thrilld as we develop Thrilld Events and the next phase of the networking app in close collaboration with Xablu’s design team. 

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We aim for this co-creation to build a strong foundation for growth while continuing to expand our product offering. To read in more depth about their offerings, visit their page here. 

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To learn even more about the partnership read on, on Thrilld.

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^{‍About Thrilld Labs}

^{Thrilld, built by Thrilld Labs, lets Web3 professionals find each other, talk business, and build human connections through a fair networking app; online and at industry events.} 

^{Thrilld Labs is also building a decentralised app that lets Web3 event organizers sell tickets and enhance their reach as well as attendee engagement.} 

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^{‍About Xablu and Xablu Venture Studio}

^{Founded in 2014, Xablu is a leader in cross-platform software development and consultancy. From boosting development teams to helping hone one software strategy, Xablu provides service design and software product management needs.
Known for deep expertise in the software development ecosystem as well as their signature friendly and efficient approach, Xablu’s unique team of Senior and MVP-level specialists bring both knowledge and a culture of innovation to companies around the world through consultancy and coaching.
Xablu Venture Studio is aimed at ensuring that its ventures have the expertise, network, and structure they need to grow with confidence via stellar software product management, resilience and interoperability.} 

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