Saff
Founder in Residence
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Job description:
This is a six-week residency programme, not salaried employment. Read on for what it actually offers.
About Saff
Saff is a six-week residency for Muslim founders who have already shipped. You move into one house in London with nine other founders, build a go-to-market system around your company, and close with a demo day where half the room are buyers.
What you walk out with
- A mapped list of your hundred target accounts and thirty dream buyers, built in week one
- A live pipeline: buyer meetings engineered during the season, not after it
- Residency fully covered: travel, stay, food, production
- Mentors in residence, plus visiting operators and angels, weekly angel dinners
- Capital: a flexible offer within guardrails, £20k to £100k, structured around your stage
- London demo day with investors and buyers who watched you build
- A personal episode arc and a lifetime seat in the Saff alumni row
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Who we're looking for
- Already building: you've shipped a product with real users or early revenue, no ideas on paper
- Able to commit: you can live and build in residence in London for the full six weeks
- Muslim founders building across the UK, Europe, or North America, solo or co-founded
- You know your buyer: you can name the five customers that would change your company, and we'll help you reach them
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Positive action statement
Saff runs under the positive action provisions of the Equality Act 2010 (Section 158), in response to documented underrepresentation of Muslim founders in UK venture capital: 3% of UK venture deals go to a Muslim founder against 5–7% of the population (source: proprietary analysis of 953 deals across the UK's top 20 venture funds). This programme is a proportionate measure addressing that disadvantage and is open to Muslim founders building across the UK, Europe, and North America.
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