People-first companies.
Work that outlives us.
Noygear is the startup studio arm of Aware Partners, a single family-office controlled private equity fund. We build a small, deliberate portfolio of real-economy software companies, funded from a single balance sheet, designed to compound both enterprise value and human capital.
We build real companies
We operate across three verticals: commercial real estate (Casa, Casita, March 2026), med-tech (May 2026), and ed-tech (September 2026), each inheriting a shared infrastructure layer and execution playbook.
Upskilling-native by design
Our founding partners previously led a UN-recognized, award-winning global upskilling program. That DNA carries through every Noygear build.
Compounding capital
Shared components, playbooks, and operating muscle carry from one venture to the next. Permanent capital means no liquidation pressure. Winners run on their own timeline.
Value of a currency = transactions ÷ units outstanding.
Multiple ventures. One balance sheet.
Casa
Opinionated maintenance-operations platform for mid-market commercial real estate operators. Work orders, SLAs, vendor scoring, photo-evidence lifecycle.
Casita
Casa's consumer equivalent. Helps households manage and delegate the operational load of running a home — seamlessly, with a real audit trail.
Med-Tech (stealth)
AI and operator rigor applied to a structurally underserved corner of clinical practice. In stealth through launch.
Ed-Tech (stealth)
Upskilling at institutional scale — our flagship social-impact venture, continuing a decade of global education work.
Operating with long-term ownership as the default.
Al Buda
Al leads Aware Partners, the family-controlled VC & PE fund behind Noygear. Nineteen unicorns across a career that spans Lehman Brothers, Rakuten, PayPal, and Google, with two SaaS exits and $2.3B in M&A advised across the portfolio.
Before Noygear, Al founded 1 Million Women To Tech, reaching 200K+ learners across 145 countries in partnership with 400 universities, and recognized by numerous awards.
Fred Kaster, PhD
Fred combines deep technical depth with cross-domain execution: PhD in medical image processing (Heidelberg, magna cum laude), German National Scholarship (top 0.5%), and US extraordinary ability designation in science.
Before Noygear, Fred worked across medtech, quantitative finance, and lead inference at NVIDIA for autonomous systems. He was also Chief Mentor at 1 Million Women To Tech.