founders-factory - Founder & CEO - Industrial Shield
Requirements
• Founder or senior operator who has built a hardware + software or IoT product from zero to one — ideally in industrial, mining, safety-tech, or occupational-health markets. • Deep familiarity with at least one buyer segment: mining or heavy-industry health & safety, or enterprise construction. • Enterprise commercial instinct: you can sell a preventative product to a CFO or H&S director and turn a pilot into a multi-year, per-head contract. • Strong product and technical instincts: you can reason about sensors, edge compute and device economics even if you are not writing the firmware yourself. • Comfortable operating in ambiguity: shaping the product, defining the buyer, and making irreversible calls with incomplete data. • Credibility with conservative industrial buyers and forward-looking venture investors, and willing to be on the ground in the UK or Australia. • Most importantly, you are motivated by category creation — building the workforce-risk operating system for heavy industry, before someone else does. • This is your company. We're here to help.
Benefits
• We don't just fund ideas — we co-build them. Join as Founder & CEO and get access to a full-stack venture studio offering designed to give you the best possible start: • €275k of spin-out capital plus a founder stipend + studio budget to build, validate, and launch • Expert Team: Hands-on support across product, growth, fundraising, AI/ML, design, legal, hiring, and more • MVP Build: Full-time venture builder(s) to help ship your first product • Accelerator: 6 months of deep operational support post-launch • Strategic Network: Intros to top-tier investors and corporate partners • Validation: A vetted concept, domain insight, and a head start in a massive market • As Founder & CEO, you will be responsible for turning a strong thesis into a scaled, defensible business. • Define the wedge. Decide which mining geography, buyer and procurement channel you attack first — and how construction becomes the scale-out. • Turn a thesis into a product. Work with our partner's sensor and manufacturing teams to take the three-in-one clip and its dashboard from concept to a device buyers can pilot. • Win the first customer. Convert warm introductions into a paying pilot with a major mining or industrial operator, and prove continuous group-level exposure profiling in the field. • Build the commercial model. Land the per-worker subscription motion, and test insurer co-funding and partner-led distribution. • Ride the regulatory tailwind. Turn tightening dust and heat regulation into procurement urgency without depending on any single mandate. • Build the company. Hire the initial team, raise capital, and establish the venture as the category leader for wearable industrial safety.
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