Entrepreneur-In-Residence (EIR)

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.