Top opportunities in 🇪🇺 for former and future founders #2
Europe is back! Join the future European startup mafias.
If you have been a founder, I believe your skills are incredibly valuable for early-stage companies. The companies listed below will value your generalist experience.
And if you are looking to create your own company in the future, joining a top company like these early will give you all the exposure and upside you need.
Here’s a curated list of the best opportunities today to join one of the future European “startup mafias”.
0 to 1: Top founding team opportunities
🇩🇪 The former founder and CEO of Westwing, Stefan Smalla, is hiring a Founder Associate to work directly with him in building Draxon (Virtual Reality for staff training). The company is backed by P9, one of the best SaaS investors in Europe, and HV Capital. Apply here or email jobs@draxon.com. As with every opportunity in this list, working directly with Stefan will not be for the faint of heart, but I can’t think of better opportunities to maximize learning by working directly with someone with such experience.
🇫🇷 The former founder of Payfit, Florian Fournier, is launching Orasio positioning it as a strategic project for Europe to have a sovereign alternative in video intelligence. More companies like this will emerge in the future as European alternatives in important tech areas and local investors will be there to support them. They are hiring top engineers and a product designer. Apply here.
🇪🇸 Athletic Club Bilbao (the best football club in the world if you ask me 😉) is looking for an ex-founder to create and launch a new business line which will be one of the most ambitious in their 125 year history. If you are interested, apply here.
🇪🇺 Root, a climate OS for the food industry, is looking for top founder profiles to launch the company from scratch in several new countries (France, UK, Italy, Spain…) across Europe, reporting directly to the founder and receiving mentorship from their investors. Here P9, talks about their investment and the market opportunity. Apply here.
🇩🇪 Eric Oancea, founder and CEO of Root, is also looking for his right hand. He talks in detail about the opportunity here, an example of how such a hire should be done and the type of opportunities that, I believe, future founders should look for. Apply by shooting him a message at eric@rootglobal.io.
🇫🇷 Monica, ex-MIT and McKinsey, is hiring a Founders Associate to work with her building a new climate-tech startup. Still in stealth mode, backed by Marble and focused on DAC (Direct Air Capture) technology. I worked alongside Monica in McKinsey and I know she will do something big. Apply here.
1 to N: Top scaling team opportunities
🇬🇧 Incident.io just raised $62M from Insight Partners and their CEO Stephen is opening a Founders Associate role to work directly with him on different high-priority projects. He says this about the opportunity: “Personally, I think it's an awesome role if you want to go start a company next, as you'll see what it's like to scale a startup from the inside.”. Apply here.
🇪🇸 Idoven is building AI tech for cardiology/ heart disease prevention and they are hiring a COO to help the company scale, as well as other interesting positions in Data Science and ML. Previous COO of the company was Rika, who then went to Accel and LifeX Ventures. Apply here
🇩🇪 Sensmore is betting on Europe’s reindustrialization by bringing AI/robotics into heavy mobile machines like mining trucks. They’ve already raised over €7M from top investors and looking for top profiles in robotics. Apply here.
🇵🇹 🇪🇸 Portuguese VC Armilar (Coverflex, Rows, Feedzai, Amplemarket etc.) is looking for someone to help them have a stronger reach in Spain. Apply here.
🇪🇸 Cesar, ex-product and employee #4 at Factorial, is building Latitude, an open source prompt engineering platform backed by top pre-seed European investors. They are hiring a prompt engineer as well as other roles in design, software and marketing. Apply here.
If you want to give feedback, share ideas, or showcase your startup’s opportunity, you can contact me directly on Linkedin or here.
Good stuff!