Founders Factory builds and funds startups together with exceptional entrepreneurs and the world's leading companies. Headquartered in London, Founders Factory backs visionary founders with capital, dedicated support from a team of expert operators, and unrivalled access to a coalition of industry leading corporate partners. Since 2015, our 300+ portfolio companies have raised $1bn+ follow-on funding from leading investors in five continents.
The Opportunity:
We're set to launch a deep tech venture studio Singapore with the support of the local government. Enterprise Singapore is backing us to build a team and launch operations in Singapore.
The focus will be on deep tech and climate tech and we are looking for outstanding candidates who have operating and investment experience, deep founder empathy and excellent networks to join our new team.
We will be raising capital for a deep tech venture studio focused on commercialising IP from the ecosystem as well as launching corporate studio and accelerator programs with local organisations.
For the right person, this is an incredible opportunity to launch our Singapore Hub with a proven playbook delivering the best possible experience for our founders.
Responsibilities:
- Establish an FF hub in Singapore
- Support capital raising from local investors and corporations
- Support FF companies looking to launch in Singapore
- Support existing FF deep tech program with Pico
- Develop ecosystem relationships with investors, founders, government, universities and corporates
- Lead the Singapore programs once funded, meaning:
- Hire world class founders and/or founding team members for studio startups
- Oversee building new startups, based on extensive solution prototyping and customer development
- Investing in existing startups annually for our accelerator portfolio
- Identifying and unlocking the unfair competitive advantage from the Founders Factory network
- Managing activities of shared and dedicated resources across the Factory team to ensure success of each startup in the portfolio
- Partner with internal resources from the Factory to create a holistic strategy and delivery plan leveraging the Factory playbook
Key Requirements:
- Previous experience as a founder and/or angel investor in early stage technology businesses
- Genuine experience raising capital for an early stage business
- Previous experience in the Deeptech industry
- Product experience taking an early stage business from concept to commercial launch
- 5 - 7 years of experience in a leadership capacity within a high growth startup
- Previous experience hiring and retaining a world class team
Why work with us:
We are guided by a set of core values that shape the way that we think and act. We hold ourselves accountable to these, and measure ourselves against them. We are looking for candidates that share these principles and can help Founders Factory to thrive:
- Think big, act small, move fast
- Value momentum over perfection
- Embrace uncertainty and remain decisive
- Suggest solutions, not problems.
- Prioritize diversity to strengthen our collective intelligence
- Be polite, generous and show empathy to others, always
