Founder and Chief Executive Officer Robotics Healthcare
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 venture thesis into a scaled, defensible business for senior living. You will define the initial market, develop a night-patrol robotics product with the partner’s robotics teams, win pilots, prove operational savings, improve unit economics, hire the initial team, and raise capital.
Requirements
- Have founded or operated a hardware, robotics, or hardware-as-a-service product from zero to one
- Know US senior living, CCRC operations, eldercare, or enterprise facilities operations
- Navigate multi-site enterprise sales cycles and convert pilots into fleet rollouts
- Reason about robotics, sensing, edge compute, and unit economics
- Operate effectively in ambiguity
- Build credibility with care operators and venture investors
- Be willing to work on the ground in the United States
Responsibilities
- Define the initial operator profile and three-state cluster for concurrent pilots
- Develop the night-patrol robot and remote-monitoring layer with robotics teams
- Win two to three CCRC or senior-living operator pilots
- Demonstrate FTE substitution while maintaining service levels
- Position the purchase as an ROI and redeployment decision for CFOs and COOs
- Improve the robots-to-operator ratio and reduce unit costs
- Hire the initial team
- Raise capital
- Establish the venture as an automation layer for senior living
Benefits
- Equity in the new venture
- Access to venture-building, specialist, and accelerator support