First read: Joining RnD Ventures' Entrepreneur in Residence Program
Why this role exists
RnD Ventures is a venture studio dedicated to CollabTech—AI-native, Web3-enabled tools that make work more human and high-leverage. As an EiR you’ll spend up to 6 months turning a promising opportunity (yours or ours) into a venture ready for MVP funding. You tap the studio’s research, talent pool and investor network; we tap your founder drive and domain insight
What you’ll do
Validate a problem & market — rapid interviews, experiments and landing-page sells.
Craft the venture thesis — crystallise unique insight, solution concept and GTM.
Recruit early talent & co-founders from our Swarm and your network.
Pitch to the Investment Committee; on graduation receive $50k pre-seed plus hands-on support for 12 months.
Contribute to guild discussions (product, growth, token-econ) and pay forward lessons learned.
What we provide
Stipend · $2.5 k/mo (cover basics while you validate).
Access to senior operators from Google Workspace, Asana, Techstars.
Shared resources: growth sprints, UX design, legal, smart-contract dev.
Cross-venture equity upside and 70 % target ownership for the founding team.
You’ve shipped SaaS, AI or crypto products—PM, engineer, designer or GTM lead.
Fluent in rapid hypothesis testing and customer discovery.
Burning to fix a collaboration pain you’ve lived, or keen to dive into one of ours.
Ready to commit full-time within 30 days and thrive in a cooperative, token-aligned culture.
Nice-to-haves
Prior founding, venture-backed or accelerator experience.
Thought leadership in future-of-work or open-source communities.