fran.ai

The portfolio

Five ventures. 4 you can open right now.

FRANWORLD, FranPulse.ai, franbase.ai, FranX Asia and FranX.vn — franlab's first five ventures, covering franchise discovery, operations, liquidity and industry intelligence.

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VentureRole in the stackThe AI-native edgeMarketStatus
FRANWORLDfranworld.comDiscover — distributionMatched leads instead of resold lists; every price published, every data point labelled35+ marketsLaunching 2026
FranPulse.aifranpulse.aiAttention — authorityVendor AI claims fact-checked and published as verified, unverified or debunkedGlobalLive
franbase.aifranbase.aiOperate — toolingThe work of an advisory team, priced per tool run instead of per retainerGlobalLive
FranX Asiafranx.asiaExit — liquidityThree-way transfer approval and open valuation, on an asset class that had no exchange40+ Asian marketsLive
FranX.vnfranx.vnExit — VietnamThe corridor's home market, built in six languages including right-to-left ArabicVietnamLaunching

Read them in order and they describe one thing: the full life of a franchise unit, from the moment someone starts looking for a brand to the moment they sell the store.

Send it when
it is ready.

We read applications all year round. There is no batch to wait for and no deadline to miss.

Applications open year-round

You cannot open physical stores in batches. Every unit needs its own lease, build-out and team — so we take ventures on one at a time, and start each one when it is ready.

We answer every submission ourselves, usually inside two weeks.