Building at the edges of work, play & purpose.

Third Space Ventures builds and operates companies across mobile gaming, hospitality commerce software, team time tracking, donor analytics, and mission-driven consulting — the products and partnerships that live in the space between where people work and where they play.

5Brands under one roof
15+Years of combined experience
2New products on the way
100%Independent & founder-owned
Our thesis

A “third space” is where the interesting things happen.

Sociologists call the places beyond home and work — cafés, arcades, town halls, main-street shops — the third space. It's where community, commerce, and culture actually meet. We build and back companies that make those spaces better: the games people gather around, the software that runs the shop, the timer that keeps a team's hours honest, the reports that show a campaign its donors, and the counsel that helps organizations serve them.

01 · PLAY

Where people gather

Mobile games with real cultural character — starting with Chancla Rush.

02 · COMMERCE

Where people gather over a drink

Point-of-sale software built specifically for bars and pubs.

03 · PURPOSE

Where people organize

Digital strategy and donor analytics for the campaigns and causes that move communities.

04 · WORK

Where people clock in

Honest time tracking for small teams, without the surveillance — starting with Minutito.

Portfolio

Five brands, one operating philosophy.

Each company is built to stand on its own — with shared craft, capital, and conviction underneath. Some are live, some are on the way.

iOS Gaming

Third Space Games

Our in-house mobile game studio, building original titles with real cultural character. First up is Chancla Rush — a fast, addictive arcade hopper bursting with color, music, and rhythm. In active development.

Chancla RushArcade hopperComing to the App Store
Hospitality POS · Waitlist open

Barform POS

Point-of-sale software built for the way bars and pubs actually run — fast tabs, quick rounds, and back-of-house tools designed for a busy night, not a retail counter. Going to market soon — join the waitlist.

Tabs & roundsBuilt for barsbarformpos.com ↗
Consulting · Live

Van City Studios

A digital agency for mission-driven organizations — websites, digital strategy, fundraising, and advocacy for the campaigns and causes working to make the world a better place.

Digital strategyFundraising & advocacyvancitystudios.com ↗
Time tracking · Live

Minutito

Free, honest time tracking for small teams — a quiet Mac menu-bar timer, a timesheet you fill in seconds, and reports a bookkeeper can trust. No screenshots, no surveillance, one flat price. Live now at minutito.app.

Free for teams of 3Mac menu-bar timerminutito.app ↗
Donor analytics · Live

NBMetrics

Advanced donation reporting for NationBuilder — engaging charts, year-over-year heatmaps, and retention reports that show campaigns their best recurring and lapsed-donor prospects. Nightly syncs, PDF and CSV exports. Serving campaigns for years — live at nbmetrics.com.

Built for NationBuilderDonor retention reportsnbmetrics.com ↗
How we operate

Long-term owners, not fast flippers.

We hold what we build. That patience shapes every decision — from the products we ship to the partners we choose.

01

Craft over scale-at-all-costs

We'd rather make one exceptional product than ten forgettable ones.

02

Operators, hands on

We run our companies, we don't just own them. Real teams, real accountability.

03

Purpose pays

The consulting arm keeps us close to organizations changing their communities.

04

Independent by design

Founder-owned means we answer to the work and the people it serves.

“We back the products and people that make the everyday spaces of a community a little bit better.”
James Firth
Founder & Managing Partner, Third Space Ventures
By the numbers

The whole portfolio, at a glance.

5
Brands across gaming, commerce, software & consulting
2
New products launching soon — Chancla Rush & Barform (waitlist open)
100+
Campaigns & causes supported
$4M+
Raised for client missions
Get in touch

Building something for the third space? Let's talk.

Whether you're a player waiting on Chancla Rush, a bar or pub ready for better software, a small team that wants honest time tracking, or an organization that needs sharp digital strategy or a clearer view of its donors — we'd love to hear from you.

hello@thirdspaceventures.io