EWOR names a San Francisco team as US applications surge 237%
EWOR, a founder fellowship harder to get into than Y Combinator, has named a senior leadership team in San Francisco. The appointments follow a record year of US applications, up 237% in twelve months.
The team comprises Charles Ferguson, the Oscar-winning filmmaker who sold FrontPage to Microsoft. He invested early in Etched, Perplexity, CopilotKit, and Paradigm. Alongside him are former Emhance CEO and Adjust CPO Katie Madding, and 3x founder (Batelle, PreSeed Fertility, Upstream) Gigi Brett.
EWOR’s premise is that talent is spread evenly across the world but opportunity is not. Fellows receive up to $600K in capital and 1:1 weekly mentorship from unicorn builders (Adjust, ProGlove, SumUp). They get it wherever they are, rather than relocating.
Founders who joined EWOR this year raised $10M on average. 25% of recent joiners have raised at nine-figure valuations in the past 6 months. In addition, fellows hire early team...
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