Entrepreneur First - Founder in Residence

Entrepreneur First is the world's leading talent investor. We believe the best way for the most impactful and ambitious people to fulfil their potential is to build companies. Since 2011, we've pioneered a new model of company creation: we bring together extremely talented people from academia and industry to build the next generation of globally ambitious technology startups from scratch.

Through our programme, you'll get to:

1. Get matched with an exceptional co-founder

2. Develop your business idea and start a company

3. Raise capital at speed

Over 2,000+ individuals have taken our programmes, creating 300+ companies that have raised over $500m of investment with a combined valuation of over $3 billion.

How it works:

1. The programme runs for 3-6 months, full-time in Bangalore.

2. For the first 3 months, we focus on helping you find the right partner from a carefully selected pool and develop your idea. You are paid a monthly stipend.

3. At the end of 3 months, you pitch to our Investment Committee to receive pre-seed funding and join the second part of the programme.

4. The second part of the programme focused on preparing you to raise your next round of funding - a big seed round with external investors.

Why join?

1. Meet a technical co-founder from a pre-vetted group of exceptional people with our structured team-building process.

2. Test and develop ideas - You don't need an idea to apply. Together with your technical co-founder, you'll get to refine your personal competitive advantage, and be guided develop your business idea.

3. Financial support - We provide a monthly stipend from day one to help with living costs - it's not a loan and you'll never have to pay it back.

4. Receive world-class mentorship - You'll be guided by our Venture Partners and entrepreneurs-in-residence, who have themselves, already scaled and sold valuable companies solving huge problems.

5. Raise funding - You'll pitch your startup to our global network of investors, and we- ll support you to raise investment so you can take your company to the next level.

6. Access to our alumni network - Our alumni community is home to some of the smartest and most ambitious people across the world.

Who we look for:

1. You're in the early stages in your career. (1-6 years of work experience)

2. You have an interest in creating and capturing market value. You're market-minded, with an awareness of different/creative applications of business models.

3. You are technically conversant and have experience interacting with technical teams to ship products.

4. You may have experience in the startup space either as a founder or employee.

5. You're persuasive, you've had people follow your actions and decisions in the past.

We're now accepting applications for our April 2022 cohort. Apply by 21st November 2021.