Co-Founder Match (Maritime Ventures Founders Program)

Maritime Ventures is a venture building company backed by CDP Venture Capital, Fincantieri, PSA Italy, Intesa Sanpaolo, Neva SGR, Friulia, and Fondazione Compagnia di San Paolo. Our mission is to launch high-impact startups that digitize SMEs in the Italian naval and port industry. We have already launched three ventures: BluComply, 4T4, and Fundo-one.

We are continuously looking for entrepreneurial profiles who do not yet have their own venture idea but want to co-found one. Through the Maritime Ventures Founders Program, we match driven operators, technologists, and commercial builders with early-stage founders who are already building B2B software ventures for the Italian naval and port industry and are looking for the right co-founder to complete their team.

If you have the skills and the ambition to build a company from the ground up, but are still searching for the right idea and the right partner, this is your entry point.

## Tasks

As a matched co-founder, you will:

• Join an early-stage venture emerging from the Maritime Ventures Founders Program
• Drive execution across product, commercial, or technical workstreams, depending on your profile
• Build and grow the founding team alongside your co-founder
• Contribute to customer acquisition, business model validation, and go-to-market execution
• Engage with Maritime Ventures' ecosystem of investors, partners, and pilot customers
• Support fundraising efforts

## Requirements

• Strong entrepreneurial mindset with a hands-on, execution-driven attitude
• Experience in early-stage startups, venture building, or scale-up environments
• Ability to operate across strategy, product, and commercial execution
• Exposure to fundraising processes and VC or investor-facing activities
• Interest in industrial, maritime, or B2B technology-driven businesses
• Fluent in English; Italian is a plus
• Italy-based or willing to relocate (optionally Genova or Trieste)
• Full-time commitment from day one

## Benefits

• Founder-level equity in a validated, high-potential venture
• Up to 3.4 million euros in equity investment from selected Maritime Ventures shareholders, spread across different rounds
• Access to the Maritime Ventures and CDP Venture Capital networks, with warm introductions to pilot customers including Fincantieri and PSA Italy
• Hands-on venture building support on business model, go-to-market, product shaping, and MVP guidance
• The opportunity to build a company transforming one of Italy's most strategically important industries

We review profiles on a rolling basis and proactively match candidates with founders currently in the program.

If you are already building your own idea and want to apply directly to the Founders Program, visit [maritime-ventures.com/founders-program](https://www.maritime-ventures.com/founders-program?lang=en).