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For those who think in decades and build in days.
with up to €500k and mentorship from unicorn-builders.
Meet Our Fellows
Great companies start with exceptional minds. That's why we invest early — when it's all about the founder. Already have €500k ARR, or no idea yet? Let's talk.
The EWOR Fellowship
Investment for Traction Fellows immediately after acceptance – details in FAQ
In cloud credits from 16+ Partner Companies who provide steep discounts, ranging from CRM systems to accounting services
Company value created by our unicorn-founders who work full-time with EWOR offering weekly hours of sparring and mentoring.
Acceptance Rate: Build among outliers
who push and support each other
For Founders By Founders
Created €12 BN in company value. Now full-time at EWOR.
Your direct sparring partners.
Alex Grots
Founded ProGlove (€500M exit) and co-invented Design Thinking.
Daniel Dippold
Founded NewNow Group, Unlimitix, and EWOR (>€200M in company value) in his twenties and initiated Sigma Squared Society (200 directors, 30 countries).
Florian Huber
Founded United Domains (sold to 1&1), neubau kompass AG (market leader) and was Business Angel of the Year 2018.
Hubertus Bessau
Co-founded mymuesli (to 800+ people), Project Eaden (€10M seed), and RSN8 Labs (EWOR invested).
Paul H. Müller
Founded Adjust (sold to AppLovin for €1B in 2021) and Team Owner of PHM Racing.
Petter Made
Co-founded Sum-Up (€8B valuation), and then became CPTO at Drooms.
Quinten Selhorst
Co-founded Felyx (€80M raised), and then co-founded Dutch Operator Fund.
Designed, supported, and endorsed by unicorn founders and investors
Christian Vollmann
Founder & CEO of C1 Green Chemicals AG, serial entrepreneur and angel investor. He now leads C1 in developing green methanol production technology.
Danielle Strachman
Founder & General Partner at 1517 Fund, previously co-founded and directed Innovations Academy, and was programme director of the Thiel Fellowship.
David Rowan
Founding Editor-in-chief of WIRED UK, investor in more than 170 startups (7 unicorns), and founded VOYAGERS.
Fabrice Grinda
Known as the best angel investor in the world and built OLX, the website with the most unique visitors per month.
George Robson
Partner at Sequoia and co-founded Kickstart Global.
Martin Varsavsky
Serial entrepreneur and active angel investor, founder of 8 companies including Jazztel, Ya.com, Fon, Prelude Fertility, Overture Life, and Goggo Network.
Max von Bismarck
Serial entrepreneur and investor, he is CBO of Raisin, a European FinTech Unicorn.
Michael Wax
Co-founder & CEO of Forto, valued at $2.1B, angel investor and previously co-founded KONUX, an industrial IoT startup.
Nicolas De Santis
Founded Beenz (the first-ever web currency prior to blockchain), Opodo (€1.2B in sales), CEO, DESANTIS Megavisionary Lab.
Patrick Nathen
Early stage startup advisor, business angel, and co-founder of Lilium, which raised €1.5B.
Stephan Schambach
Serial entrepreneur and investor who pioneered cloud-based e-commerce, founder of Intershop, Demandware (acquired by Salesforce for $2.8B), and NewStore.
Viktoriya Tigipko
Founding Partner at TA Ventures and world’s most active female angel (250+ investments).
Our Investor Network
We work closely with the global top investors, funding the best startups. EWOR Fellows raise at a 50-300% higher valuation than average.
Wall of Love
Our partners don't just advise, they co-build. They've scaled SumUp, Adjust, ProGlove from zero to billions.
Now they're full-time at EWOR, not part-time mentors checking in monthly.
Expect hours of weekly sparring with founders who've lived your exact chaos. They'll challenge you hard and fight for you harder.
Programmes move cohorts. We move outliers. No fixed curriculum, no batch schedules – just the exact support you need when you need it.
Deep technical foundations? We'll go to the math. Distribution strategy? We've cracked those codes.
Think of it as having an ecosystem as a co-founder, just taking much less space on your captable.
Whether you make up to 2m ARR with your tech startups or you are are still ideating and looking for a co-founder ... if your vision scares the people around you, we're interested.
Whether you have scaled to max €2M ARR, are debugging at 3 AM or hunting for your technical co-founder, the ambition matters more than the stage.
For once, expect to feel like the dumbest among peers. It's oddly liberating. Our 0.1% acceptance rate ensures every conversation sharpens your edge and levels you up. A quite elevating experience when you think about it.
You'll find collaborators who match your obsession – and friends who are just as out of their minds about their vision as you are.
you are.