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Our applications are now closed! We are in awe of the outstanding quality of applications we received during this application cycle. A big thank you to everyone who applied and to our Venture Partners, Fellows, friends, and co-investors for recommending incredible founders to us. Keep an eye on the dates below and please remain patient as we carefully select the next generation of EWOR talents! #startup #venture #entrepreneurship #businessdevelopment

"𝐓𝐨 𝐚𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐞𝐯𝐞 𝐠𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐬, 𝐭𝐰𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐬 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐧𝐞𝐞𝐝𝐞𝐝: 𝐚 𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐧, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐪𝐮𝐢𝐭𝐞 𝐞𝐧𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡 𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞." 🎼 Leonard Bernstein’s words were likely said in reference to his philosophy of creativity as a composer and conductor. Nonetheless, there are parallels between founding a startup and composing + conducting a musical masterpiece. As a founder, there is never enough time to plan everything. But without a plan, nothing great can happen. ⌛️ At EWOR, we want to do everything that we can to help save (some) time for our exceptionally talented founders, so that they can focus on planning and achieving great things. ❗❗ 𝐒𝐨, 𝐰𝐞 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐞𝐱𝐜𝐢𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐬𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐟𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐦𝐨𝐝𝐞𝐥 𝐭𝐞𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐞, 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐟𝐫𝐞𝐞 ❗❗ As with all of our resources, this template is built by founders, for founders. It includes step-by-step guidance, and it can be used for any kind of business. (Though, of course, every startup is unique; so perhaps it is best used as a source of inspiration). Check out the template here: https://lnkd.in/esNB_CEh 💸 To go beyond financial modelling, we have also included our ESOP (options scheme) template and our financial analysis cheat sheet in the comments below. Let us know whether you find any of these resources helpful, or else how they can be improved! 🚀 We are always looking to help founders in their bids to create masterpieces! #ewor #startup #financial #model

🔋 Li-Ion batteries take 40 minutes to charge. Swistor's energy storage devices take only 2 minutes. And their production emits 40% less CO2. When it comes to the future of high-performant, sustainable energy, our fellow Clara Moldovan is leading the charge⚡with Swistor. 🔬 Clara earned her PhD in Microengineering from EPFL, where she conducted ground-breaking research on the design of advanced graphene devices for application in electronic systems. Rightfully recognized for her potential, she was presented with EPFL's prestigious Bridge Proof of Concept Grant (50,000 CHF). This allowed her to initiate her vision to revolutionize the energy storage industry. 👩🔬On the way, Clara matched her academic foundations with practical expertise. She spent three years leading innovation projects at Sensirion, including the development of sensors for portable electronic devices. In 2020, she won EPFL's Musy Award for Women in Entrepreneurship. In 2022, she went full-time with Swistor, alongside Victoria Manzi Orezzoli. 🚀Swistor has since raised 2 million CHF and was one of the winners of Swisscom’s DeepTech Startup Challenge. We are immensely proud to call Clara an EWOR fellow, not just for her excellence, but more importantly for her commitment to changing the world. 🤿 Well, that, along with her being an incredible photographer who loves scuba diving and telling stories about nature! We are always looking for fellows who combine exceptional ability with a drive to innovate. Let us know in the comments if that sounds like you! #startup #entrpreneur #EWOR #energy #Swistor

☹️ It's so frustrating to see Naval Ravikant (Silicon Valley tech billionaire, 2.3 million followers on X) tweeting something like this. 🚀 At EWOR, we work tirelessly every day to make even a small contribution to ensuring Europe remains relevant by helping founders build large tech companies with a global impact. 🇪🇺 But Europe needs a wake-up call. Without a focus on innovation, it will become an old-world #museum in a few decades. cc: Christian Miele #startups

Exceptional founders with world-changing ideas are hard to find. 🔎 Luckily, we are quite good at finding them! The question is, how can we help them to create unicorns? 🫂 Two words: Ecosystem and Education. The EWOR ecosystem is a collection of like-minded individuals, from investors through to operators through to founders, actively helping one another to change the world. Education (and cross-mentorship) is at the heart of the EWOR ecosystem. It is the glue that connects visions with realities. 🚀 With immense pride, we are excited to share our revamped Founder’s Resources which have been created by our leadership team, a group of former unicorn founders. Why share these resources with everyone? We are not about gatekeeping. We believe that it is immensely useful for all early founders to receive free, foundational support. 📄 Our resources include templates for financial modelling, legal contracts and pitching. 📈 More actively, we have compiled search matrixes for co-founders and grant opportunities, as well as personal development quizzes and a productivity bible. We will be giving in depth overviews of some of our resources soon, but for now, check out the selection here: https://lnkd.in/dy46z_6H ❓Which one of our resources do you find most valuable as a founder? Are there any which you think are missing? Let us know in the comments! #EWOR #entrepreneur #founder #resources #templates

Meet our fellow, Mark Golab. 🌍 Mark’s story embodies the EWOR mission: use extraordinary talent to change the world. All the way back in 2014, he was selected by DEVELOP3D as one of the seven best British graduate designers of the year. 📄 His master’s thesis focused on the implementation of wearable technology within spinal surgery. He was awarded with a distinction and he published a paper in the European Spine Journal. 🤖 In 2017, he was awarded a £100,000 grant to research an integrated robotic system for PepsiCo Europe. In the same year, he exhibited a spinal surgery robot (the ScoliBOT) at the The Royal College of Surgeons of England. 👨⚕️In 2023, he finished his PhD in Ultra Precision Engineering at the University of Cambridge. In the same year, he co-founded Cambridge Surgical Models, a start-up which won the Cambridge University Entrepreneurs competition, netting a £20,000 grant. Now, together with his co-founders, Dr. Senthooran K. and Dr Sam M., Mark is building the next generation of artificial anatomical models for surgical training. 🚀 Earlier this year, his venture was named as one of the med-tech startups to watch by cofinitive! It is a privilege that Mark's story continues with us as a part of the EWOR ecosystem and the EWOR mission. If you want to be part of our ecosystem and mission, let us know in the comments! 👀 #entrepreneur #startup #EWOR

What do national kickboxing championships, cybersecurity and blockchain hackathons have in common? Our fellow, Jeevan Jutla. 🧑💻By age 16, Jeevan was already working as a full-stack software engineer for numerous SaaS start-ups. 🥊By age 17, he was coaching kickboxing across the UK and he won a national middleweight championship. 🤖 By age 19, whilst at university, he worked as a security researcher at the National Cyber Security Centre. He also established and scaled King's College London’s Cybersecurity Society to over 600 members. 🏆By age 20, Jeevan was a serial hackathon champion, collecting over $50,000 in winnings and earning a top 500 ranking for CTFs. 👷♂️ A true builder, Jeevan has developed an AR app (winning him the Tezos Blockchain Hackathon), a seizure detection app (winning him ICHack23) and a decentralised IOS app (winning him the ImmutableX Blockchain Hackathon). Now, leveraging his wide industry experience, including a year on the red team at Binance, Jeevan is working on a full-scale venture with EWOR. We suppose his story makes sense: MMA is notoriously akin to solving puzzles, representing a physical manifestation of Jeevan’s widely recognised problem-solving skills in cybersecurity and hackathons. 🚀Jeevan’s journey is a testament to the combined power of sheer discipline, raw intelligence and a relentless pursuit of excellence, a combination we strive to replicate over and over again at EWOR. Have you got a story that makes one think, what do those things have in common? #startup #entrprenuer #EWOR #fellow

🥳We are thrilled to announce that NestEgg - founded by EWOR fellow Edgar Alexander Kooter - have secured a significant investment from STYX! - Edgar Alexander Kooter has 20+ years of experience in trading and fund management. He ran trading platforms for Morgan Stanley and Bloomberg. - Edgar met his co-founder, Ben Myers, via EWOR. Ben has 20+ years of experience in operations and finance. He has spent the last 12 years building tech start-ups in LatAm (including Passei Direto, which was sold to UOL). 🏠🥚Together, they have built NestEgg: the first fintech platform where homeowners can trade home equity for debt-free income. 🎯As NestEgg's first investors, we are thrilled to see real-estate veterans STYX recognise the potential we saw from day one! 🚀The STYX partnership will enable NestEgg to develop new features and accelerate their expansion throughout Europe, bringing innovative home-equity release solutions to new markets 🫂 Supporting NestEgg from the ground up (a success story in the making) is a testament to the strength of our ecosystem and our commitment to innovation. Here's to a bright future ahead! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ➡️ If you are curious to read more about how NestEgg could transform the future of home ownership, check out the full investment announcement from STYX: https://lnkd.in/ejGgfUxs #ecosystem #startup #entrpreneur #EWOR

What’s the most special thing about EWOR? Is it that our fellows are some of the brightest and most exciting founders around? Partly, but there’s more to the story. 🫂 We have an incredible ecosystem of co-investors who support us and our fellows. And today, we want to give two of them a shoutout: Leon Szeli and Johannis Hatt. 🎯 Leon founded Presize (acq. by Meta). It was then acquired by Meta where he is now a leading product manager. He has recently become an avid angel investor. 🎯 Johannis founded Productsup and scaled it to 25m ARR. He went on to become a serial investor with over a decade of experience and 70+ investments. 🚀 Together with these proven-builders-turned-angels, we have co-invested in over 10 companies built by EWOR fellows, including: Composo, Spherecast (YC S24), OriginAI, Flow.bio and Creable. 🫂 We are incredibly proud of our ecosystem. Without it, EWOR would not be EWOR. #ecosystem #investor #startup #entrpreneur #EWOR

Meet EWOR Fellow, Max Osborne. 🏂 By age 16, Max was a qualified snowboard instructor who travelled the world for competitions. 🏫 By age 22, Max had two masters degrees (in Mathematics and Data Science) from The University of Edinburgh. He won two British Snowboarding Championships whilst he studied. 🧑🔬 By age 24, Max had founded ThisThat. He proposed a research program in support of his venture. He then supervised MSc Computer Science students at University Edinburgh on said research. 🚀Now, with companies like Meta, Google, Visa, Unilever, The Walt Disney Company, and Roblox as early adopters, ThisThat is becoming the new gold standard for influencer marketing measurement. Via EWOR, and following an extremely impressive growth in run rate (from £180k in 2022 to a £3.3M in 2023), Max has just raised a round from 4 unicorn founders! 🔎 We are always looking for fellows like Max to join our community. Let us know what remarkable things you achieved by age 16, 22 or 24! #entrepreneur #founder #startup