Co-Founder and Chief Industry Officer
Founders Factory is a venture studio, accelerator, and investment platform that builds and funds early-stage startups. It supports founders with capital, operational expertise, corporate partnerships, and access to a global network.
Maintainer signals as of 8/23/2026
About Founders Factory
Founders Factory partners with entrepreneurs and leading companies to co-found new ventures, accelerate startups, and invest in early-stage businesses. Its activities include venture building, cohort-based accelerator programs, sector-focused investment funds, operational support, and corporate innovation partnerships across fintech, health, industrials, deep tech, and climate. It serves ambitious founders, corporate partners, and early-stage technology startups.
Skills
Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
Use insurance-market expertise and industry relationships to guide market entry, engage early partners, and ensure the platform reflects real underwriting and capacity workflows. Translate industry processes into product requirements, represent the venture externally, and help shape its positioning and long-term direction.
Requirements
- Experience as a former MGA CEO, COO, or CUO, or as a senior executive at a carrier, reinsurer, or Lloyd’s syndicate
- Deep experience with delegated authority, program business, and capacity placement
- Proven senior network across MGAs and capital providers
- Firsthand experience with underwriting workflows, capacity constraints, and capacity allocation
Responsibilities
- Lead market entry, early partner engagement, product domain expertise, commercial execution, and industry adoption
- Act as the industry anchor with MGAs, carriers, reinsurers, and capacity providers
- Represent the venture credibly across the market and with early partners
- Unlock early design partners among MGAs, insurers, and syndicates
- Shorten sales and partnership cycles through existing credibility and relationships
- Build trust in a regulated, relationship-driven industry
- Ground the platform in real-world underwriting and capacity workflows
- Translate industry processes, constraints, and edge cases into product requirements
- Ensure the platform reflects how capacity is evaluated, approved, deployed, and governed
- Pressure-test product assumptions using firsthand market experience
- Represent the venture externally with partners, investors, and the broader market
- Shape messaging, positioning, and category narrative
Benefits
- Meaningful founder-level equity vesting over time
- Long-term alignment and shared upside
