Startup Wise Guys

Founding CTO (AI/ML / Data Product)

Startup Wise Guys  •  Republic of Estonia (Remote)  •  3 months ago
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Job Description

Startup Wise Guys (SWG) is one of Europe’s most active B2B accelerators. In Founders Club, senior builders team up to validate real B2B problems and ship the first product version in 12 weeks, fully online.

If you’ve been the person deploying models for someone else’s roadmap, this is your chance to build your own AI-powered venture—from problem selection to productization.

This is a co-founder opportunity.

The goal is to help you become (or join) a founding team and launch a venture.

Tasks

  • Validate a B2B problem where AI creates measurable value (time, cost, risk)
  • Define MVP that’s product-first (not “cool model-first”)
  • Design the data approach (collection, labeling, evaluation, monitoring)
  • Ship a reliable prototype/MVP (APIs, pipelines, guardrails, feedback loops)
  • Craft investor-ready tech narrative (moat, data advantage, roadmap)

Requirements

  • 7+ years in software engineering with strong AI/ML or data product exposure
  • Experience shipping to production (MLOps basics, monitoring, reliability)
  • Strong product instinct: clarity on what “good enough” looks like for an MVP
  • Founder mindset; you want ownership and upside, not a service role
  • ~10–12h/week for 12 weeks

Benefits

  • 12-week sprint to go from insight → MVP → iteration
  • Weekly accountability + execution cadence ( ~10–12h/week)
  • 500+ mentors including B2B, product, GTM, fundraising specialists
  • 440+ alumni startups / 40+ countries for learning + intros
  • CTO toolkit for AI ventures: scope, evaluation, deployment, “moat” story

Note: The cohort includes a participation ticket after acceptance to ensure commitment.

Apply if you’re ready to stop being the “AI builder for others” and ship your own company.

Startup Wise Guys

About Startup Wise Guys

We are a diverse team of tech lovers, mentors, experts, and founders ourselves bound together by our passion to support founders on their entrepreneurial journey.

We help to solve key challenges at every stage

Dare to dream global. We’re a startup accelerator like no other, our optimized approach puts early stage startups on the map and catapults them into worldwide success.

Startup Wise Guy’s origins began in Europe’s tech-savvy startup capital, Estonia. Since 2012, we have used our carefully curated expertise, skills and funding to skyrocket hundreds of emerging early stage startups into upwards growth.

This is not our first rodeo… we are the most experienced accelerator fund in the region with over 35+ programs, an international community of founders from over 60 countries and an established market in CEE and CIS countries.

Industry
Finance & Insurance
Company Size
51-200 employees
Headquarters
City Centre, EE
Year Founded
2012
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