{"id":2749,"date":"2026-07-17T15:18:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T15:18:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tradefinder.help\/?p=2749"},"modified":"2026-07-17T15:18:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T15:18:11","slug":"founder-residence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tradefinder.help\/?p=2749","title":{"rendered":"Founder Residence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Job description:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>This is a six-week residency programme, not salaried employment. Read on for what it actually offers.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><strong>About Saff<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><strong>What you walk out with<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A mapped list of your hundred target accounts and thirty dream buyers, built in week one<\/li>\n<li>A live pipeline: buyer meetings engineered during the season, not after it<\/li>\n<li>Residency fully covered: travel, stay, food, production<\/li>\n<li>Mentors in residence, plus visiting operators and angels, weekly angel dinners<\/li>\n<li>Capital: a flexible offer within guardrails, \u00c2\u00a320k to \u00c2\u00a3100k, structured around your stage<\/li>\n<li>London demo day with investors and buyers who watched you build<\/li>\n<li>A personal episode arc and a lifetime seat in the Saff alumni row<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><strong>Who we&#8217;re looking for<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Already building: you&#8217;ve shipped a product with real users or early revenue, no ideas on paper<\/li>\n<li>Able to commit: you can live and build in residence in London for the full six weeks<\/li>\n<li>Muslim founders building across the UK, Europe, or North America, solo or co-founded<\/li>\n<li>You know your buyer: you can name the five customers that would change your company, and we&#8217;ll help you reach them<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><strong>Positive action statement<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> 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\u00e2\u0080\u00937% of the population (source: proprietary analysis of 953 deals across the UK&#8217;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.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"featured_image_url":[],"post_author":"sonifashionhouse@gmail.com","assigned_categories":"Uncategorized","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tradefinder.help\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tradefinder.help\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tradefinder.help\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tradefinder.help\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tradefinder.help\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tradefinder.help\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2749\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tradefinder.help\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tradefinder.help\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tradefinder.help\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}