Co-Founder

🚀 Co-founder | Raidical Academy

• We have 20 open positions
• Location: Hybrid (London office & digital)
• Program Duration: 9 weeks (starting September 2026)
• Commitment: Full-time co-founder role (~32 hours per week)

About the program

If you've just graduated, want to skip the corporate ladder, and build a company from scratch with real VC backing on your CV, this is your launchpad.

Raidical Academy (https://www.raidical.academy) is a 9-week venture-building program for early-career builders who are ready to go from zero to startup. You'll join a tight-knit cohort of technical builders and ambitious operators, form teams, and move fast through sessions, workshops, and hands-on mentorship from people who've built before.

After 9 weeks, teams pitch for a chance to secure €400k in VC funding to launch their venture.

What you will do

• Team up with a complementary co-founder
• Explore emerging markets and technologies, validate problems fast, and ship an MVP that real customers will pay for
• Run customer discovery, prototype, iterate, and close your first LOIs
• Pitch to VCs and potentially walk away with €400k to build your company

We're looking for two types

🛠️ The Technical Hacker You ship fast, learn faster, and know how to build. You're a recent CS, engineering, or AI grad (or self-taught equivalent) who wants to found something, not just work at something.

📈 The Chaos-Comfortable CEO Type You thrive in ambiguity, love talking to customers, and can sell a vision before the product exists. You've got a commercial or business background and want to lead a venture from day one.

Both profiles: based in London or CET timezone, early-career, full-time (32 hours per week) committed.

Program structure

🔍 Discovery Phase (3 weeks, remote)

• Market analysis, competitor research, customer discovery, product discovery
• Unpaid

🛠️ MVP Phase (6 weeks, in-house in London)

• Building the product, landing first customers, securing LOIs and POCs
• Compensation: £3,000 fixed

Note: Successful validation opens access to substantial VC funding.

You will gain

🎓 Intensive, hands-on entrepreneurship training

🤝 Access to industry operators and mentors

👥 A peer community of ambitious early-career builders

💰 The chance to launch a VC-backed startup, fast

Interview process

1. Submit your application

   Tell us who you are, what drives you, and why you want to build something that matters. No idea required, we're looking for curiosity, creativity, and drive.
2. Video and interview
   • Shortlisted applicants record a 10-minute video, then join a short interview with our team. We want to get to know your personality, your thinking, and how you work in a team environment.
3. Receive your invitation
   • The top candidates will be selected to join the 9-week program, the starting point for building the next generation of ventures.

If you're early in your career, hungry to build, and not waiting for permission, apply or visit https://www.raidical.academy.