Founder & CEO (PreSeed Health-tech) - Clinical Infrastructure for Field Operations
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 turn a strong thesis into a scaled, defensible business as the Founder and CEO of a new health-tech venture. You will decide whether v1 leads with defence, civilian surge, or humanitarian use cases, and which geography, buyer, and procurement channel to attack first. You will turn ClinicalOS from a concept into a working prototype that ingests live data from real devices and renders patient, pod, and theatre views. You will secure a lighthouse deployment, whether a NATO Role 2E pilot, an NHS mobile unit, or a humanitarian pre-positioning deal. You will navigate building a product for both defence and civilian buyers without being locked into either. You will work with partner sensor, BMS, SOFC, and diagnostics teams to integrate the hardware stack without letting hardware distract from shipping software. You will build the narrative, assemble the advisory board, and close a Seed round in a fast-moving defence-tech capital market.
Requirements
- Founder or senior operator who has built a platform or infrastructure product from zero to one, ideally in defence, health-tech, industrial IoT, or logistics
- Deep familiarity with at least one buyer segment: defence medical, humanitarian operations, or NHS / European health system procurement
- Strong product and technical instincts, able to reason about edge computing, device orchestration, and data architecture
- Experience selling into complex, multi-stakeholder procurement environments such as governments, militaries, or large health systems
- Comfortable operating in ambiguity, shaping the product, defining the buyer, and making irreversible calls with incomplete data
- Credibility with both conservative defence/health buyers and forward-looking venture investors
Responsibilities
- Define the wedge and decide whether v1 leads with defence, civilian surge, or humanitarian use cases
- Decide which geography, buyer, and procurement channel to attack first
- Build the operating system, turning ClinicalOS from concept into a working prototype
- Ingest live data from real devices and render patient, pod, and theatre views
- Win the first customer by securing a lighthouse deployment
- Navigate dual-use by building a product serving both defence and civilian buyers
- Leverage partner IP by integrating sensor, BMS, SOFC, and diagnostics hardware
- Raise capital by building the narrative and assembling the advisory board
- Close a Seed round in the defence-tech capital market
Benefits
- €110k ring-fenced build budget covering founder stipends and specialist resource
- Founder stipends of €5,750 per founder per month
- 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
- 70% founder equity at incorporation
- €275k cash investment into the new venture's bank account
- Accelerator support with a dedicated squad covering growth, product and fundraising