Founder & CEO - Industrial Shield at Founders Factory

<h1><strong>Founder &amp; CEO — Industrial Shield</strong></h1><p style="min-height:1.5em"><em>One clip, three sensors, real-time protection for the people who work in the world's toughest environments</em></p><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>Location:</strong> Australia</p><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>Start date:</strong> ASAP</p><p style="min-height:1.5em"><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/18K3lyvtmqLhjp1hZ1oxUcx-lwgsxOQvgTfe4045vZZY/edit?usp=sharing"><u>More about the concept here.</u></a></p><p style="min-height:1.5em"></p><p style="min-height:1.5em">Founders Factory builds and funds startups together with exceptional entrepreneurs and the world's leading companies. Created by IPO-exited founders, we offer founders capital, operational support from a team of hands-on experts, and unrivalled access to a coalition of industry-leading corporate partners. Since 2015, Founders Factory's 450+ portfolio companies have secured 500+ pilots and commercial contracts with our partners.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em">Our Studio partners with entrepreneurs at day one, developing new ideas, technologies and business models into high-growth companies. In partnership with a leading global industrial technology partner, we are building a new portfolio of ventures.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em"></p><h2><strong>About the Venture</strong></h2><p style="min-height:1.5em">The world's workforce is increasingly exposed. Heat stress already causes an estimated 277,000 injuries and 230 deaths a year in the EU alone, and the world has woken up to silica dust — the UK's Health and Safety Executive links around 500 construction deaths a year to silica-related lung disease, plus a further ~4,000 deaths a year from workplace-induced COPD. Yet this is still managed through "holistic risk assessment" or, at best, static environmental monitors. Today's wearables track heat <em>or</em> dust — never heat, dust and physical strain together.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em">We are building IndustrialShield: one chest-worn clip carrying three sensors — particulate, gas/heat and physiological strain — worn within 300mm of the breathing zone, designed edge-compute-first so it works where mines have no connectivity, and privacy-first to earn worker trust. It turns continuous exposure into actionable, work-group-level risk profiles, sold as a per-worker subscription (~€8–14/worker/month) on two-year site contracts.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em">The unfair advantage: our partner's sensor stack — a fanless particulate sensor no rival can match, a gas sensor and an exertion sensor — stacked per worker in a way no other silicon vendor can assemble, plus warm routes into mining operators through our partner's smart-mining network and Founders Factory's own relationships across the sector. Early buyer conversations with major miners have been strongly positive: <em>"I haven't seen it in one unit before."</em></p><p s