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Founder-in-Residence — Industrial AI

The Flywheel · Remote (US) · Remote

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About the role

We are looking for ambitious entrepreneurs with first-hand insights into industrial challenges, bottlenecks, and revenue blockers. We turn your insight into a formidable company. You keep up to 80% equity of the company we build together. We compress the 0 to 1 journey from years down to months. Accelerators, VCs, and incubators fund you and advise you. We build with you: validating the idea, shipping the first prototype, forming the founding team, incorporating, and winning your first customers and investors.

What they're looking for

  • As a Founder-in-Residence, you will work closely with The Flywheel team to identify, validate, and build a venture that uses AI to accelerate productivity and efficiency in one of our core domains:
  • Manufacturing & Supply Chains
  • Defence & Security
  • Energy & Sustainability
  • During the FiR Program (ideally 1-3 months, up to 6 months):
  • Conduct deep user research and problem validation across target industries
More about this role

The Flywheel Venture Studio (www.theflywheel.studio) is recruiting exceptional operators, engineers, and domain experts to build category-defining companies that solve hard problems in Europe’s most critical sectors: Manufacturing, Defence and Energy.

We are looking for ambitious entrepreneurs with first-hand insights into industrial challenges, bottlenecks, and revenue blockers. We turn your insight into a formidable company. You keep up to 80% equity of the company we build together.

We compress the 0 to 1 journey from years down to months. Accelerators, VCs, and incubators fund you and advise you. We build with you: validating the idea, shipping the first prototype, forming the founding team, incorporating, and winning your first customers and investors.

As a Founder-in-Residence (FiR), you will be paid while validating, designing, and launching a new venture with hands-on support from experienced founders, operators, engineers, and industry partners. Successful residents receive up to €300k in committed capital at incorporation, and keep up to 80% of their equity.

The studio’s 20+ investors, including former operators from Google, Boeing and NASA stand ready to make warm...

Read the full posting on The Flywheel's site ↗

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