Technical Co-Founder (CTO) for Early-Stage Startups (m/f/d)

💻 Technical Co-Founder (CTO) for Early-Stage Startups (m/f/d) | Equity-Based | Frankfurt, Darmstadt, Mainz

You don't want another dev job — you want to build a company.

Futury connects aspiring startup founders, engineers, developers and technical talents with early-stage startups actively searching for a technical co-founder.

Opportunities span AI, software, hardware, robotics, deep tech and product development across the Frankfurt Rhine-Main startup ecosystem.

🔄 How the Co-Founder Matching works

Apply once. Join the Futury Co-Founder Pool. We review your profile and actively match you with startups from our network, based on your technical skills and what each founding team actually needs. No open marketplace, no cold applications to random teams.

We work with startups emerging from leading universities, research institutions and industry partners across the Frankfurt Rhine-Main region.

Futury is one of ten Startup Factories in Germany (awarded by the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs, BMWK) — we don't take fees, equity, or any cut. This is pure matching: we connect you with the right founding team, and then it's between you and them.

🎯 Your Profile:

• Technical expertise in one or more areas: software engineering, full-stack development, AI/ML, machine learning, data science, hardware development, embedded systems, robotics, cloud architecture, DevOps, or product development
• Builder mindset — you ship products, not just code, and thrive when turning ambiguity into working systems
• Entrepreneurial thinking — you want to architect and own a product, not execute tickets
• Readiness for a real co-founder role: equity over salary, ownership over assignment
• Passion for building technology-driven companies from scratch — not joining a startup as a developer, but shaping it as a co-founder
• Located in or willing to work from the Rhein-Main area (Frankfurt, Darmstadt, or Mainz), Germany

🚀 The startups you'll meet

Early-stage tech startups from AI, Machine Learning, DeepTech, Robotics, HealthTech, GreenTech, FinTech and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) — all actively searching for technical leadership at the founding stage.

📋 Apply now

Click 'Apply' to open our short profile form. We ask what you bring, what you're looking for, and what kind of startup you'd want to build with. That's it.

👉 https://bit.ly/Futury-Co-Founder-Matching

📩 Questions? Reach out: cofounder@futury.eu