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Founders Factory's latest concept in the Mission Studio (backed by Nesta) is “Martee’s”.

🧐 What is the concept at high level?

What if we could change the food retail environment to make distribution easier for fresh food businesses? The ambition for this venture is to be:

A new retail channel for food producers and brands capturing real-time insights

Streamlining access into automated-retail as a distribution channel by broking between site locations, food producers and consumers

A simple way for employers or organisations to subsidise healthy food for their teams

24/7 access to an extensive range of fresh and healthy food brands for consumers

A distributed network with a national footprint in high traffic locations

Boosted through promotions, loyalty and rewards capabilities

A fully managed service, delivering tech, maintenance and stock to locations

⏰ Why now?

The new normal after lockdown has created new opportunities. More gig workers eating on the go, WFH making canteens obsolete, entrepreneurs spinning up food businesses looking to scale - Covid has changed how, where and when people eat. With this venture we can connect the dots to succeed in a new food environment. 

Many reasons to believe in the timing of the opportunity: 

Fresh food intelligent vending machines & smart fridges are operating successfully at scale in other markets

Employers seeking alternatives to a canteen with the increase in WFH

More food suppliers resulting from people spinning up new independent brands looking for new channels to reach customers

Food brands increasingly interested in this space as rents and wages increase

🍏 The Impact

This concept has the potential to shift the balance of food availability, with the potential to impact a broad cross section of society by providing better access to convenient, affordable, fresh food instead of unhealthy snacks.

💪 We are looking for a CTO/Head of Data Science who will:

• Bring an extensive knowledge of data science, forecasting and platform development to the table 
• Build our customer-facing platform and B2B data product in a user-centric way
• Have a strong product, as well as a technical, mindset to get stuck in with iterative building and learning
• Be a communicative team player,  able to co-ideate effectively with the CEO & COO
• Have a bias for scale to build, own and run the data platform underlying the business
• Work quickly, and adaptively without fear of venturing into the unknown, to push innovation boundaries
• Implement business strategies and plans that align with the short and long-term objectives developed in tandem with CEO & COO
• Have previous experience of building and growing a top-tier technical team 
• Have a strong understanding of data privacy and security best practices
• Be motivated by the mission, A Healthy Life
• Bring no ego, and be excited about working for an energetic, innovative startup

• Significant experience in technology/product leadership roles
• Experience working on data/forecasting/inventory management problems
• Having excellent leadership skills, with steadfast resolve and personal integrity
• Demonstration of a solid grasp of practical and technical challenges in fresh food supply chains
• Ability to diagnose problems quickly and foresee potential issues
• Confidence with digital / technical workflows and process
• Being a strong communicator and team player 
• Drive by purpose and the learning opportunity

• Attractive salary and equity package, to make sure you have a piece of the pie
• You will help bring a high-growth startup to life to and execute on our ambitions collaboratively 🚀
• Working directly with the co-founders, Harry (CEO) and Lucy (COO) helping shape all aspects of the business. Harry is a massive foodie with a background in digital, tech and UX, having previously founded a food startup marketplace. Lucy brings commercial and operational experience in rapid grocery and B2B SaaS, with a background in human health, nutrition and food policy
• Becoming part of the Founder's Factory entrepreneurial ecosystem & building relationships with industry leaders for life 💙
• Entering into a culture of self-development, continuous growth and radical candour 🙏
• The opportunity to build a team and create your own niche within Martee’s as we scale 👾

We are committed to building a diverse culture and are eager to receive applications from all backgrounds. All applicants will receive consideration for employment without discrimination.

🧐 What is the Chiron concept at a high level? 

2 in 3 people live with a chronic condition. There is a growing number of individuals hacking solutions and running self-experimentation to find answers and improve their health. What works for one person may or may not work for the next. Navigating one’s symptoms is overwhelming, expensive and fragmented, leading to a lack of tangible steps forward, and a seemingly endless journey with limited results. 

Chiron helps people find solutions faster with a structured, data driven approach. It uses iterative testing cycles to identify what does / does not work for you. Each cycle focuses on a single change and tracks how the body responds. The outcomes of each test are used to determine what to test next, until you find what works. 

At a high level, Chiron would: 

Help navigate your way forward with a personalised pathway We remove the burden of researching what to try and where to go next. Our algorithm uses multi-source data to create a pathway of suggested changes you can ‘test’ to find relief to your symptoms. The pathway optimises based on a user’s reported outcome to previous tests.

Provide customisable trackers, integrations & automated remindersWe reduce the admin burden by allowing you to customise what you track and integrating with wearables and health apps to automate as much tracking as possible.

Turn complex data into actionable insightsWe enable users to easily cross compare data sets and view trends over time to see how changes are affecting different aspects of health eg. how sleep is impacted by a dietary change. 

There are strong early signals for demand for such a solution, with many possible business models and potential for real impact towards helping people accelerate their health journey. 

💸 Why now?

We are witnessing the golden age of digital health. New ventures going after niche needs, underserved communities and/or specific conditions resulting in a plethora of verticalized propositions. However, chronic conditions remain marginalised given their nebulous nature, particularly within Western medicine - how do you know what to address when, oftentimes, there is no diagnosis to begin with? Growing attention to long-covid is providing an important spotlight on the reality of chronic conditions in general.

Combined with changing customer behaviours (users increasingly searching for and serving their health needs through specific D2C health solutions) and a pressure for greater self-management of health conditions, Chiron will become a turn-key solution for individuals, health practitioners, payers, insurers and employers.

📈 Unfair advantage

Founders Factory is in a position to leverage huge value add from our corporate partner Reckitt on Project Chiron. This could include: 

1 - Leveraging Reckitt’s knowledge of consumer health products and broader health market as well as brand to help acquire first customers 

2 - Insights into industry standards and best practices (e.g. around clinical trials) & navigating (international) regulation 

3 - Working closely with the Founders Factory portfolio start-ups (like Syndi Health, Sanno Health, Health Key) to give insights and potential partnerships. 

The Tech Cofounder Role

As part of the founding team you will be an instrumental part of shaping the product & business strategy and will have a specific expertise in data science. You will own the tech strategy and manage day-to-day engineering execution. Looking ahead, you will be responsible for helping grow the team and set up the technical capabilities of the business for growth.

Interesting technical challenges include:

• Develop a data strategy to integrate machine learning capabilities into the programme
• Design the product and back-end with state-of-the-art machine learning principles and technologies, whilst thinking about how we can scale the product to multiple medical conditions
• Work with the product team to deliver a mobile application that can help users successfully change their behaviour and improve their health, rapidly developing an initial prototype to test first and then an MVP
• Managing multiple sources of biometric data including self-reported, data from wearables/devices/other apps, and data from other connected medical devices
• Consider the use of available big data sets to drive the early machine learning algorithm

• Taking charge of platform development, working with full stack engineers to make key decisions on technical architecture
• Working with the rest of the team to deliver the MVP, enabling us to test, iterate and serve our growing membership base
• Ensuring the systems architecture and infrastructure is scalable and can support growthFeeding into product strategy and commercial goals  to identify opportunities to quickly deliver customer value
• Ensuring that the product continues to use best practices, utilising advances in AI / machine learning

• Demonstrated experience developing data strategy and machine learning algorithms for mobile applications, preferably with a healthtech focus
• Knowledge of the latest practices in AI / machine learning and can creatively apply them to a mobile application
• Demonstrated ability to deliver product in a tech startup environment and with speed
• Confidence to manage a tech team to develop a mobile app, and ability to inspire and build a team
• Experience of working within an agile environment 
• Experience with API Integrations to pull data from multiple sources
• Entrepreneurial spirit, flexibility and willingness to work across a range of areas and grittiness to operate in a start-up environment
• Knowledge of the challenges involved in developing a digital health product, including the regulatory requirements and liaising with clinicians/researchers, would be a bonus
• Knowledge of mobile app development including Node.js or Python, React, and AWS 

• As part of the founding team, a significant equity position in the business
• A salary from the Founders Factory initial investment meaning you don’t have to worry about fundraising early on 
• Autonomy to build & scale the product as YOU best see fit
• Hands-on operational support from a team of smart and passionate people from Founders Factory
• Unparalleled access to FF partners and wider network (for life!)
• A unique opportunity to build a business that will scale.

We are committed to building a diverse culture and are eager to receive applications from all backgrounds. All applicants will receive consideration for employment without discrimination.