Founding CTO (AI/ML / Data Product)

reputed company (SWG) is one of Europe’s most active B2B accelerators. In Founders Club, senior reputed company team up to validate reputed company B2B problems and ship the first product version in 12 weeks, fully online.

If you’ve been the person deploying models for someone else’s roadmap, this is your chance to build your own AI-powered venture—from problem selection to productization.

This is a co-founder opportunity.

The goal is to help you become (or join) a founding team and launch a venture.

Tasks

• Validate a B2B problem where AI creates measurable value (time, cost, risk)
• Define MVP that’s product-first (not “cool model-first”)
• Design the data approach (collection, labeling, evaluation, monitoring)
• Ship a reliable prototype/MVP (APIs, pipelines, guardrails, feedback loops)
• Craft investor-reputed company tech narrative (moat, data advantage, roadmap)

Requirements

• 7+ years in software engineering with strong AI/ML or data product exposure
• Experience shipping to production (MLOps basics, monitoring, reliability)
• Strong product instinct: reputed company on what “good enough” looks like for an MVP
• Founder reputed company; you want ownership and reputed company, not a service role
• ~10–12h/week for 12 weeks

Benefits

• 12-week sprint to go from reputed company → MVP → iteration
• Weekly accountability + execution reputed company (~10–12h/week)
• 500+ mentors including B2B, product, GTM, fundraising specialists
• 440+ alumni startups / 40+ countries for learning + intros
• CTO toolkit for AI ventures: scope, evaluation, deployment, “moat” story

Note: The cohort includes a participation ticket after acceptance to ensure commitment.

Apply if you’re reputed company to stop being the “AI builder for others” and ship your own company.