Top opportunities in 🇪🇺 for former and future founders #3
Former founders will shine in these companies thanks to their generalist and high-ownership approach and future founders will maximize exposure and learning before starting their own companies.
0 to 1: Top founding team opportunities
🇧🇪 Spott (AI recruitment) is looking for a Founder’s Associate. Strong founding team (ex-McKinsey, Morgan Stanley and CVC) and investors (YC and Base10). Apply here.
🇨🇭 Pave (Space logistics) is looking for a Founder’s Associate to help on strategic projects and fundraising. Apply here or send an email directly to kerstin@foodlabs.de
🇬🇧 Satellite startup New Orbit is looking for a Founder’s Associate to help on Operations, Business Development and Hiring. There are few opportunities like this and the previous one to fast-track learning while working in the space industry from Europe. I found both opportunities on the McKinsey Alumni Careers page so they will be looking for these kinds of profiles. Apply here.
🇪🇸 Yuri and Enrique just left Foundernest, raised a pre-seed with top VC funds and are hiring 2 founding engineers. DM them directly to chat.
🇵🇹 🇪🇺 Plain (B2B support) just raised $15M Series A from Battery and Index, among others, and are looking to redefine their core product, already widely used, with AI, for what they are hiring a founding AI Engineer. Good team, traction and good investors. Apply here.
🇪🇸 Juan, ex-BCG, together with Samuel (Founding CTO at Cabify), is hiring a founding sales rep for their invoicing company Invopop (YC W23). 4X ARR since starting 2025. Apply here.
🇩🇰 Kiku (AI recruiting for frontline workers) is hiring a founding Product Manager. See more and apply here.
1 to N: Top scaling team opportunities
🇪🇸 Borja is back as founder with his new company Murphy (AI debt collection), raised from great VCs such as Northzone and growing like crazy. They are hiring in multiple roles so there are many good opportunities. Borja is a great example of how this newsletter started for ex-founders; He founded and then closed Buo, joined Haddock as CFO, and discovered the opportunity for Murphy there. Apply here.
🇵🇹 Sword Health (Portuguese unicorn) is hiring for their Office of the CEO. Ideal for operator-types or ex-founders who want to work closely with the CEO and rest of the leadership team at a big company. I know people that worked on this team such as Rodrigo already creating their companies. Apply here.
🇩🇪 Neobank N26 ($9Bn valuation in their latest round in 2021) is looking for a Chief of Staff to support strategic initiatives, drive growth, and ensure operational efficiency. Apply here.
🇪🇸 Genesy, founded by ex-BCG Kai is looking for multiple roles to keep scaling the company. Company funded by Samaipata, K Fund and ITnig (Factorial founders). Apply here.
🇩🇪 US-based Cohere (Enterprise AI platform) is hiring a Country Manager for Germany to drive growth in the country. The company is at the forefront of the AI race even in the US leading in enterprise adoption and with a latest valuation of $5,5Bn. Apply here
🇬🇧 Headline VC is hiring an Associate based in London. Offer also found via the McKinsey Alumni Careers page. Send an email to anna.faulkner@headline.com to apply. I have some doubts about these VC opportunities; There are many great founders coming from VC but as a person that has done both VC and startup, the startup experience is just way better for future founders. Feedback welcome.
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