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EWOR Founder Fellowship

Geography: Germany
Stage: Pre-Seed
Fund size: €60M
Focus: AI/ML, Digital Health and SaaS
Signals: Published

N°01 / About

About EWOR Founder Fellowship

EWOR Founder Fellowship is a venture capital firm based in Germany, focusing on Pre-Seed stage investments. The fund actively supports founders building innovative solutions in AI/ML, Digital Health, SaaS, providing strategic guidance and capital to help startups scale.

N°02 / Thesis

Investment Focus

Location / RegionGermany

Funding StagePre-Seed

Industry Focus

AI/ML

Digital Health

SaaS

Investor Signals Profile

active

Sweet Spot

Outlier deep-tech founder, pre-seed to €2M ARR, €10B+ ambition

pre-seed

outlier founders

deep tech

€10B+ ambition

operator-led support

Bullish Signals

€14B company value created by unicorn founderswebsite

0.1% acceptance rate — extreme selectivityexternal

Up to €600k investment + €350k cloud creditswebsite

Fellows raise 50–300% higher valuationsexternal

Unicorn founders full-time, not part-time mentorswebsite

Sequoia + 1517 Fund + global top investor networkwebsite

Fellows: fusion, bioAI, neurotech, space, FinTech, energy storagewebsite

In-person EWOR Connect events, French Chateau networkingwebsite

19 endorsers: Forto, Lilium, Demandware, OLX founderswebsite

Fellow: Elon Musk direct report, 3D vision LLM pioneerwebsite

"Harder than YC, built by unicorn founders"—tech.euwebsite

Current fellows: fusion, FinTech, biomedical AI, neurotechwebsite

Oxford PhD founder: Europe's largest pre-seed roundwebsite

Meta/MIT researcher at 20, magic.dev >$700M raisedwebsite

Fellow: 3x National Karting Champion, JPMorgan AI/ML trainedwebsite

Fellow: CERN dark matter detector creator, trauma AIwebsite

Fellow: sold first company at 16 for €30M to Yahoowebsite

Fellow: Cambridge biomedical PhD, sound-powered preventative healthwebsite

Fellow: Unicorn founder (Tandem Bank), 3x FinTech exitswebsite

Fellow: Serial founder, medical doctor, 8-figure first exitwebsite

Operator-led venture, co-building from chaos not advisingwebsite

Fellow: €150M+ revenue builder, 70+ company investor, Sequoia Scoutwebsite

Global Top 100 Founder Mentors Award program launchingwebsite

"Think decades, build days" positioning attracts system-changerswebsite

Fellow alumni base includes fusion-fission, metabolic health, neuro-AIwebsite

Contrarian Signals

Fellowship model, not traditional VC fund structureexternal

Virtual-first but selective in-person events onlywebsite

Highly selective — most founders won't qualifyexternal

No fixed curriculum or cohort batches—bespoke onlywebsite

Modular, non-linear support tailored to exact founder stagewebsite

Ambition matters more than stage or tractionwebsite

Partners co-build full-time, not monthly check-inswebsite

"You ll feel dumbest among peers" — positioning vulnerability as featurewebsite

Founder Do's

Have €10B+ company vision

Show extreme technical depth or rare background

Apply pre-traction or up to €2M ARR

Demonstrate outlier credentials or achievements

Embrace intensive weekly 1:1 sparring with unicorn founders

Founder Don'ts

Don't pitch incremental or niche ideas

Don't expect fixed curriculum or batch cohorts

Don't apply without transformative €10B+ ambition

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Facts

Fund Overview

Fund Size€60M

Saves0

Website

People

Key People

Daniel Dippold, Florian Huber

Alex GrotsPartner / Mentor

Daniel DippoldCo-Founder / Partner

Florian HuberPartner / Mentor

Hubertus BessauPartner / Mentor

Paul H. MüllerPartner / Mentor

Petter MadePartner / Mentor

Quinten SelhorstPartner / Mentor

Christian VollmannAdvisor / Endorser

Danielle StrachmanAdvisor / Endorser

David RowanAdvisor / Endorser

Fabrice GrindaAdvisor / Endorser

George RobsonAdvisor / Endorser

Martin VarsavskyAdvisor / Endorser

Max von BismarckAdvisor / Endorser

Michael WaxAdvisor / Endorser

Nicolas De SantisAdvisor / Endorser

Patrick NathenAdvisor / Endorser

Stephan SchambachAdvisor / Endorser

Viktoriya TigipkoAdvisor / Endorser

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