Founder Residence

<p><strong>Job description:</strong></p><p><em>This is a six-week residency programme, not salaried employment. Read on for what it actually offers.</em></p><p><br></p><p><strong>About Saff</strong></p><p>Saff is a six-week residency for Muslim founders who have already shipped. You move into one house in London with nine other founders, build a go-to-market system around your company, and close with a demo day where half the room are buyers.</p><p><br></p><p><strong>What you walk out with</strong></p><ul><li>A mapped list of your hundred target accounts and thirty dream buyers, built in week one</li><li>A live pipeline: buyer meetings engineered during the season, not after it</li><li>Residency fully covered: travel, stay, food, production</li><li>Mentors in residence, plus visiting operators and angels, weekly angel dinners</li><li>Capital: a flexible offer within guardrails, £20k to £100k, structured around your stage</li><li>London demo day with investors and buyers who watched you build</li><li>A personal episode arc and a lifetime seat in the Saff alumni row</li></ul><p><br></p><p><strong>Who we're looking for</strong></p><ul><li>Already building: you've shipped a product with real users or early revenue, no ideas on paper</li><li>Able to commit: you can live and build in residence in London for the full six weeks</li><li>Muslim founders building across the UK, Europe, or North America, solo or co-founded</li><li>You know your buyer: you can name the five customers that would change your company, and we'll help you reach them</li></ul><p><br></p><p><strong>Positive action statement</strong></p><p> Saff runs under the positive action provisions of the Equality Act 2010 (Section 158), in response to documented underrepresentation of Muslim founders in UK venture capital: 3% of UK venture deals go to a Muslim founder against 5–7% of the population (source: proprietary analysis of 953 deals across the UK's top 20 venture funds). This programme is a proportionate measure addressing that disadvantage and is open to Muslim founders building across the UK, Europe, and North America.</p><p><br></p><br/><br/>Please mention the word **REASONABLE** and tag RMmEwMTo0Zjk6NmE6MTY2YTo6Mg== when applying to show you read the job post completely (#RMmEwMTo0Zjk6NmE6MTY2YTo6Mg==). This is a beta feature to avoid spam applicants. Companies can search these words to find applicants that read this and see they're human.