Founder & CEO - Cognitive Decline Early Detection Platform
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.
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About the Role
You will take a strong healthcare thesis and turn it into a scaled, defensible business. You'll decide which population and care setting to target first, whether memory care communities, post-diagnosis home monitoring, high-risk screening cohorts, or clinical trial enrichment for pharma. You'll build the algorithms that distinguish normal ageing variation from clinically meaningful decline, turning ambient sensor data into actionable clinical intelligence rather than noise. You'll secure a lighthouse customer, whether a senior living operator, a health system neurology department, a pharma company, or a Medicare Advantage plan. You'll navigate the FDA regulatory path, deciding between a wellness or Class II device positioning and building the evidence package to support it. You'll design the family-facing caregiver experience that turns continuous monitoring into peace of mind. And you'll build the company itself: hiring the initial team, raising capital, and establishing the venture as the category leader in ambient neurological monitoring. You'll be supported by an embedded studio team and specialists in data science, applied AI, fundraising, legal, finance, PR and commercial partnerships as you build.
Requirements
- Founder or senior operator who has built a health-tech, med-tech, or digital health product from zero to one in the US market
- Deep familiarity with the US healthcare ecosystem including Medicare reimbursement, FDA regulatory pathways, health system procurement, or pharma partnerships
- Strong product and technical instincts to reason about sensor data, ML pipelines, clinical validation, and care delivery models
- Experience selling to complex healthcare buyers such as health systems, senior living operators, payers, or pharma
- Comfortable operating in ambiguity while shaping the product, defining the clinical use case, and making calls at the intersection of technology, regulation, and clinical science
- Passion for ageing, neuroscience, or caregiver support
Responsibilities
- Define the clinical wedge by deciding which population and care setting to target first
- Turn ambient data into clinical intelligence by building algorithms that detect meaningful decline
- Win the first customer by securing a lighthouse partner
- Navigate the regulatory path and determine the right FDA positioning
- Build the caregiver layer and design the family-facing experience
- Build the company by hiring the initial team, raising capital, and establishing category leadership
Benefits
- Embedded studio team including a full time venture builder, studio lead, and growth marketer
- On-demand access to specialist support across data science, applied AI, fundraising, legal, finance, PR and commercial partnerships
- Dedicated network access from day one
- Accelerator support with a dedicated squad covering growth, product and fundraising
- $320k cash investment into the new venture's bank account at IC approval
- 70% founder equity in the new venture at incorporation