Why a platform
Thirty-odd ventures. One set of rails.
Most groups our size would drown in overhead, a different host here, a different login there, a security posture that varies by whoever set it up last. We went the other way. Every Tetherra venture is built on the same foundation, so the hard problems get solved once and inherited by all.
The platform is deliberately self-hosted. We own the boxes, we own the data, and nothing critical depends on a service we can't see inside. That's not ideology, it's what keeps costs flat as the portfolio grows and keeps each venture's data exactly where it should be.
New venture, day one: it arrives with infrastructure, identity, security and a delivery pipeline already in place. All that's left is the part that makes it different.