Startup Founder & CEO

About the company

DQventures is a venture-building team made up of former founders and investors who have launched and exited multiple businesses, with exits reaching up to $85 million. Their product, go-to-market, and entrepreneurship specialists work full time with experienced professionals who want to move from employment into building their own companies, helping them validate ideas, win initial customers, and launch real ventures.

Role overview

This opportunity is for a founder and CEO to build a new B2B business from the ground up. The role begins as a part-time, equity-based position. After the company reaches the point where revenue or funding can sustain compensation, it is expected to shift into a full-time position with a market-rate founder salary. Until then, DQventures will cover the working capital needed to develop and launch the business.

What you will do

• Lead early-stage discovery work by speaking with users, collecting market insights, and clarifying the problem to be solved.
• Study competitors to spot unmet needs, differentiation opportunities, and better positioning.
• Build and release the first version of the business, with support from the venture team, using a service, no-code, or technology-led approach to test demand.
• Handle first-pass sales activities by pitching, closing, and onboarding the earliest paying customers.
• Move quickly on feedback and performance signals to improve the offer, pricing, and overall business model.
• Raise capital when required, with help on pitch preparation, refinement, and introductions to suitable investors.
• Commit at least 12 hours each week, with room to increase involvement as momentum grows.
• Participate in weekly one-on-one sessions with the venture-building team for planning, strategy, and guidance.
• Take complete ownership of the venture’s direction, decisions, and long-term results.

About you

The ideal candidate is an experienced professional with at least 15 years of work experience and a business idea rooted in their own area of expertise. You should have identified an inefficiency in your industry and want to solve it with a solution that customers will pay for.

Candidate profile

• 15+ years of professional or leadership experience.
• Deep knowledge of a specific sector or function.
• Strong history of delivering complex projects or launching new initiatives.
• Prior exposure to sales, partnerships, or business development is a major advantage.
• Experience in product management, operations, or service design is also beneficial.
• A well-developed professional network within your industry.

Offer and support

• 80% equity ownership, giving you majority ownership from the start.
• Full funding for validation and launch, including all working capital needed to build and grow the company.
• Support from an experienced co-founding team of founders, investors, and operators with startup exit experience.
• Personalised one-on-one venture-building guidance every week across strategy, product, and go-to-market.
• The ability to keep your current job initially while building the company part time until it can support a founder salary.
• Access to a global network of founders building other DQ-backed ventures.
• Help with fundraising preparation, investor introductions, and legal support when needed.

Timing and selection

The team plans to select 3 new founders to begin in August 2026. Applications are expected by July 15, 2026, and interviews are already in progress.

Additional information

This role is based in Singapore, but it is fully remote. It is an equity-only opportunity at the outset, and the company states that all capital needed to launch will be provided. Once the business can support compensation, the role is intended to become full time with a market-rate founder salary.