Pioneer careers

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 3-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 6 who are optimistic we can find brilliance in places the world has overlooked.

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?