The Flywheel Venture Studio (www.theflywheel.studio) is recruiting exceptional operators, engineers, and domain experts to build category-defining companies that solve hard problems in Europe’s most critical sectors: Manufacturing, Defence and Energy.
We are looking for ambitious entrepreneurs with first-hand insights into industrial challenges, bottlenecks, and revenue blockers. We turn your insight into a formidable company.
€4,000/month while you validate your venture. Up to €300k in committed capital at incorporation. You keep up to 80% equity in the company we build together.
We compress the 0 to 1 journey from years down to months. Accelerators, VCs, and incubators fund you and advise you. We build with you: validating the idea, shipping the first prototype, forming the founding team, incorporating, and winning your first customers and investors.
As a Founder-in-Residence (FiR), you will be paid while validating, designing, and launching a new venture with hands-on support from experienced founders, operators, engineers, and industry partners.
The studio’s 20+ investors,



including former operators from Google, Boeing and NASA stand ready to make warm introductions to first buyers, pilots, and investors.
Our Founder-in-Residence program is based in Thessaloniki, Greece.
The hybrid residency gives you a focused environment for making decisions and moving quickly, while giving you access to Greece's strong English-speaking STEM talent pool and an efficient base for building your first product and team.
Successful ventures are free to build anywhere in Europe.
The Role
As a Founder-in-Residence, you will work closely with The Flywheel team to identify, validate, and build a venture that uses AI to accelerate productivity and efficiency in one of our core domains:

Manufacturing & Supply Chains
Defence & Security
Energy & Sustainability

You will operate as the future CEO or CTO of a company formed during or after the program. This is a highly entrepreneurial role

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