Co-Found with Founders Factory - Fintech Studio (Bank-Fintech Partnerships)

Founders Factory builds and funds startups together with exceptional entrepreneurs and the world’s leading companies. Created by IPO-exited founders, we offer founders capital, operational support from a team of hands-on experts, and unrivalled access to a coalition of industry-leading corporate partners. Since 2015, our 300+ portfolio companies have raised $900mm follow-on funding from the leading investors in technology.

Our Studio partners with entrepreneurs at day one, developing new ideas, technologies and business models into high growth companies. We’re now exploring concepts and opportunities to enable bank-fintech partnerships. 

We’re looking for an experienced operator with entrepreneurial ambitions to co-create a new concept together with our Venture Design team. You will then lead the venture as Founder & CEO with our investment and the full backing of Founders Factory. 

Making Bank<>Fintech Partnerships Work

Partnerships between fintech companies and traditional financial institutions are challenging to build and maintain, yet these partnerships are essential to bring innovative financial solutions to the masses. 

Added compliance requirements and long integration periods make it now very difficult for fintech companies to find the right financial sponsor. At the same time, these partnerships are becoming more important for smaller banks to attract larger amounts of deposits.

This timely pain point opens up new opportunities for ventures that try to help fintech startups speed up integration time and compliance requirements with traditional financial institutions. 

We’re particularly interested in the following opportunity areas:

Enabling fintechs to get bank partnership ready: implementing data privacy certifications, tracking progress, and sharing compliance measures with sponsor financial institutions.

No-code finance and banking integration solutions

Our offer:

Co-found a company with Founders Factory’s team of IPO-exited founders and entrepreneurs to develop a new venture at the intersection of health and finance Access to an expert team through our Venture Studio and a 6-month accelerator programme Support developing a concept to pitch at our Investment Committee Unlock €700k investment and hands-on support from our experienced team Senior access to Italy’s leading investment bank with €78.2bn AUM Membership to our invite-only Fintech Venture Building Community, with access to specialised knowledge, peer support, exclusive events and networking opportunities

What we're looking for:

Experienced founder, builder or operator, capable of operating from zero to one Unique market insight, top 1% skills or other advantage that makes you a suitable and compelling Fintech founder  Experience in corporate finance or investment banking Proven ability to build a world-class team, attract customers and investors Evidence of thriving in ambiguous environments and a high aptitude for calculated risks A clear vision for the opportunity (including product direction) - with the drive and expertise to execute on it High IQ and EQ - strong opinions loosely held  Italian language skills and market knowledge is a plus

Note - We are reviewing applications on an ongoing basis. If your background and application meets our criteria, we will be in touch to schedule a call.

We are committed to building a diverse culture and are eager to receive applications from all backgrounds. All applicants will receive consideration for employment without discrimination.