EWOR

EWOR is a Berlin-founded, virtual-first founder fellowship that funds and mentors the top 0.1% of entrepreneurs building AI, HealthTech, clean-energy and fintech companies, with up to €500,000 per fellow.

EWOR, founded in 2020 and headquartered in Berlin, is a highly selective founder fellowship that backs entrepreneurs building transformative technology companies. The programme accepts roughly the top 0.1% of applicants and targets first-time founders working in artificial intelligence, HealthTech, clean energy and fintech. Its reach is borderless: the ecosystem operates virtual-first across Europe and globally, and counts more than 72,000 followers.

Accepted fellows receive immediate funding of up to €500,000, at the pre-seed and seed stages, including what EWOR describes as Europe's largest pre-seed rounds for first-time founders. On top of capital, fellows are granted €300,000 in cloud credits through partnerships with more than 16 companies. Pre-seed funding secured by EWOR fellows to date totals €13m, and fellows have reached valuations of $3b within two years of joining.

Mentorship is delivered weekly in one-to-one sessions and direct sparring with full-time unicorn founders. The team includes builders from SumUp (valued at €8b), Adjust (€1b exit) and ProGlove (€500m exit). The fellowship's alumni range from MIT nuclear scientists to Oxford PhDs, and its stated aim is to support outlier founders building transformative technology companies.