Pioneer is a home for founders on day 0.
We believe there are thousands (maybe millions!) of potentially great founders around the world who don't have the resources or opportunities to take the leap to start companies. We scour the Internet to find those people, bring them into our community of founders, help them incorporate, fund them, put them through a 2-month accelerator program, introduce them to experts in their field, and much more.
In our 3 years since launching, we've funded 200+ founders from 50+ countries. Our Pioneers have gone on to raise from Sequoia, a16z, Y Combinator, Khosla Ventures, General Catalyst, Village Global, and many more VCs & angels.
We're a small team of 5 who are optimistic we can find brilliance in places the world has overlooked.
OUR CHALLENGES
Pioneer isn't just an accelerator—it's a generator. We want to motivate people to become the best versions of themselves, to take their crazy ideas more seriously, and to make betting on themselves less daunting. If we do what we've set out to, we'll not just fund successful startups that might not have otherwise worked out—we'll fund ones that wouldn't have existed at all.
We're constantly asking ourselves:
- How do you reach ambitious outsiders who aren't in any mainstream communities?
- How do you motivate people to take the leap to work on their own projects, and keep making progress?
- How do you correctly identify impressive progress at scale?
- What can we do to make our Pioneers as successful as possible?
If these problems sound interesting to you, reach out: jobs@pioneer.app.
WORKING AT PIONEER
We value autonomy over consensus, speed over correctness, and being different & experimental. If given the choice between a known good and a project that has a small chance of being wildly successful, we'll pick the latter. We're data-driven on our high-level numbers, but trust our instincts. We care more about output than setting rules.