Founder & CEO - AI Pathology
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Maintainer signals as of 9/2/2026
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About the Role
Lead Slidestream from validated AI pathology thesis to scalable business by defining the customer and pricing model, commercializing a cleared scanner in Indian laboratories, building a telepathology network, winning early customers, validating economics, hiring the initial team, and raising capital.
Requirements
- Founder or senior-operator experience building a health-tech, med-tech, or diagnostics product from zero to one.
- Familiarity with private diagnostic laboratories, hospital pathology, or government or NGO health procurement.
- Commercial ability to sell devices to price-sensitive laboratories and build a two-sided network of laboratories and specialists.
- Understanding of edge AI, imaging, clinical validation, and diagnostics regulation, including CDSCO and CE.
- India-market credibility and networks.
- Willingness 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.