Founding CTO (Cybersecurity Fintech Trust-Critical B2B)

Startup Wise Guys (SWG) is one of Europes most active B2B Founders Club senior builders team up to validate real market pain and ship the first scalable product version in a 12-week online execution program.

If youve spent years building secure systems compliance layers risk controls or payment rails for othersthis is your chance to build a company around a trust-critical problem you understand deeply.

This is a co-founder opportunity. The goal is to help you become (or join) a founding team and launch a venture.

Tasks

• Validate a trust-critical B2B pain (security fraud identity compliance risk)
• Design a credible MVP (security by design auditability data controls)
• Build core product & foundations: CI/CD security baseline logging access control
• Define trust proof strategy (security posture compliance roadmap buyer needs)
• Prepare investor-ready technical narrative (defensibility roadmap risk handling)

Requirements

• 7 years in software engineering with strong cyber/fintech/security exposure
• Experience with secure architectures (authN/Z encryption logging threat thinking)
• Comfort shipping MVPs with responsible guardrails
• Founder mindset: ownership urgency and long-term commitment
• 1012h/week for 12 weeks

Benefits

• 12-week build sprint (validation MVP iteration)
• Weekly execution cadence (1012h/week clear deliverables)
• 500 mentors across B2B GTM fundraising and specialist domains
• 440 alumni startups / 40 countries (network intros benchmarks)
• CTO toolkit for trust-critical ventures: MVP scope security narrative investor story

Note: The program includes a participation ticket after acceptance to ensure commitment and cohort quality.

Apply if youre ready to stop being the security/fintech CTO for others and build your own product company.