CEO, Co-founder: agentic insurance infrastructure

Founders Factory Ltd.; City of Westminster; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading startup incubator in Westminster is seeking an entrepreneurial leader to co-found a company focused on AI-powered insurance solutions. The role involves driving strategy, customer acquisition, and fundraising. Ideal candidates will have deep expertise in insurance and a startup mentality, with the ability to manage complex environments and communicate clearly with partners and investors.

Qualifications

• Experience within or alongside MGAs, carriers, reinsurers, or capacity brokers.
• Built something from scratch or led a startup from Seed to Series A+.
• Experience selling to enterprises and driving adoption.

Responsibilities

• Co-found a company with Founders Factory's team.
• Lead customer acquisition and validate ideas.
• Manage fundraising and investor relations.

Skills

Deep insurance expertise

Founder mindset

Strong commercial instinct

Experience in regulated or complex sectors

Strategic operational skills

Comfort with compliance-heavy environments

Excellent communication

High trust, low ego

Job description

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 a roster of notable investors. Our Studio partners with entrepreneurs at day one, developing new ideas, technologies, and business models into high-growth companies.

The Opportunity

The pace of progress in AI development is unprecedented, with a clear trajectory towards autonomous AI-powered insurance companies. Providing insurance requires complex interconnected tasks involving structured and unstructured data, digital and human interfaces. We believe AI adoption within existing insurance companies will accelerate, leading to 10x productivity improvements. However, this future depends on 're-platforming' the industry from AI co-pilots to AI agents across the insurance value chain. With Aviva as our launch partner, we've identified a key industry problem that affects the entire sector, providing a springboard to build a platform that will redefine industry operations.

What We Offer

1. Co-found a company with Founders Factory's team of IPO-exited founders and entrepreneurs to develop a new venture.
2. Access to an expert team through our Venture Studio and a 6-month accelerator program, including a dedicated venture builder.
3. Combined cash and hands-on support from our experienced team.
4. A validated concept and intellectual property.
5. A dedicated studio budget covering founder stipends, specialist resources, and infrastructure.
6. Set and own the vision—define the long-term strategy and commercial roadmap, ensuring alignment across product, go-to-market, and capital plans.
7. Drive early traction—lead customer acquisition, build, and manage a pipeline of early adopters and strategic partners.
8. Lead customer discovery and validation—run structured customer development to test assumptions, refine value propositions, and build solutions that address real pain points.
9. Oversee pilot success and onboarding—manage rollout and success of early pilots, ensuring high-value use cases are delivered with measurable results.
10. Work closely with the CTO—translate customer and commercial needs into product direction and ensure market-fit solutions.
11. Own fundraising and investor relations—lead pre-seed and seed capital raises, build strong investor relationships, and report on milestones and traction.
12. Build the culture and team from day one—hire early team members, set ways of working, and embody the company's cultural and strategic values.
13. Act as the external face of the company—represent jointly in the market with customers, regulators, media, advisors, and partners.

Required Expertise and Skills

• Deep insurance expertise—experience within or alongside MGAs, carriers, reinsurers, or capacity brokers, understanding capacity flows.
• Founder mindset—built something from scratch or led a startup from Seed to Series A+.
• Strong commercial instinct—experience selling to enterprises, closing early design partners, or driving adoption in complex marketplaces.
• Experience in regulated or complex sectors—ideally fintech, regtech, B2B SaaS, or insurance infrastructure.
• Strategic operational skills—ability to set vision and execute plans.
• Comfort with compliance-heavy environments—navigate legal nuances efficiently.
• Excellent communication—articulate vision clearly to investors, partners, and teams.
• High trust, low ego—build strong relationships, lead transparently, and collaborate effectively.