Founder & CEO - AI Pathology
Founders Factory is a global venture studio and accelerator that builds and funds startups alongside exceptional entrepreneurs and the world's leading corporations. It provides capital, operational support from a 60+ person team of operators, and access to a coalition of corporate partners, focusing on sectors like Fintech, Health, Industrials, and Deep Tech.
About Founders Factory
Founders Factory backs visionary founders with capital, dedicated support from a team of 60+ operators, and unrivalled access to a coalition of industry-leading corporate partners. It operates a Venture Studio (co-founding new companies with the backing of its team and partners) and an Accelerator (helping startups raise capital and grow in pre-seed and seed stage investment programs). Its platform spans Capital (funding startups at idea, pre-seed and seed stages), Operational Support (co-founder level support to help find product-market fit, build companies, and raise rounds), Corporate Partners (access to distribution, market intelligence, commercial partnerships and follow-on capital), and Community & Network (operating at the centre of Europe's tech ecosystem with a global community of founders, investors and corporate innovators). The company runs multiple sector-specific accelerator programs globally (e.g. Northwestern Medicine Healthcare Accelerator, Aviva Fintech Accelerator, Rio Tinto Mining Tech Accelerator, MSWA MS & Neurological Care Accelerator, HSBC Industrial Innovator Programme, Blue Action Accelerator) and has built a portfolio of 450+ startups across Fintech, Health, Deep Tech, Climate, Mining Tech, AI, Media, and other sectors, with notable exits including Monolith, Landvault, Fluidstack, Flourish, Feedr, and Honest Health.
Skills
About the Role
You will turn a validated AI pathology thesis into a scalable business. You will define the initial customer and pricing model, bring a cleared scanner to market in Indian laboratories, recruit telepathology specialists, win early laboratory customers, and validate end-to-end test economics. You will collaborate on device economics, manufacturing and connected-fleet operations, then hire the initial team and raise capital.
Requirements
- Have founder or senior-operator experience building a health-tech, med-tech, or diagnostics product from zero to one.
- Have familiarity with private diagnostic laboratories, hospital pathology, or government or NGO health procurement.
- Have commercial ability to sell devices to price-sensitive laboratories and build a two-sided network of laboratories and specialists.
- Understand edge AI, imaging, clinical validation, and diagnostics regulation, including CDSCO and CE.
- Have India-market credibility and networks.
- Be willing to work on the ground in Bengaluru.
Responsibilities
- Define the initial buyer segment and pricing model.
- Bring the cleared scanner to market through paid deployments in Indian laboratories.
- Recruit and grow a telepathology specialist network.
- Win an initial cluster of laboratory customers and validate the sample-to-result loop.
- Work with engineering and fleet-management teams on device economics, manufacturing scale and connected-fleet operations.
- Hire the initial team, raise capital, and establish the venture.
Benefits
- €275k of spin-out capital.
- Founder stipend.
- Studio budget.
- Hands-on support across product, growth, fundraising, AI and machine learning, design, legal, and hiring.
- Full-time venture builder support for the first product.
- Six months of deep operational support after launch.
- Introductions to investors and corporate partners.