A community for early employees, by early employees

Empowering generalist early employees in Startups

We're a community crafted by early venture employees

At Early Builders, we understand the challenges of wearing multiple hats in entrepreneurial endeavours.

Our community is designed to facilitate knowledge exchange, broaden networks, enhance skills through tailored events, foster camaraderie with social gatherings, and elevate our collective impact in the French startup scene.

Why join?

Join a thriving community of early-stage tech professionals in France. Early Builders offers networking events, expert insights, and exclusive job opportunities, to become an early employee yourself!

What you get as an Early Builder

Special events

Meet other like-minded first employees

Build your network and gain valuable insights at exclusive Early Builders events. Connect with industry leaders, share best practices, and become part of a thriving community.

Early Dinners

Great food, exceptional company

Join intimate dinner sessions focused on specific industry challenges and opportunities, providing a platform for in-depth conversations with peers.

Previous dinners' verticals included Fintech, Consumer platforms, Web3, AI...

Curated resources

The best help you could have asked for

Access a treasure trove of curated resources, including guides, templates, and private chat groups, all designed to enhance your skills and knowledge. Learn from the experiences of your peers in a supportive community.

Workshops

Get expert insights straight from the source

Early Builders offers dedicated group workshops alongside experienced scaleup executives, focused on sharing valuable insights about complex topics, such as Building your partnership strategy.

Find your dream job

We're curating early employees opportunities from top founders and startups in France. 

Access our public job board below with curated positions in the best early stage European startups. 

Get in touch with founders

You can fill out this form to be part of our Talent Pool, if you're looking for an early employee position in Europe. 

If a founder is interested in your profile, we'll reach out. 

Boost your talent pipeline

Employers, we're here to help too!

Fill the form below to push  your job offers onto our job board, and boost your visibility towards ambitious aspirant early employees. 

About us

We're young, first employees working in early stage, high impact startups. We're dedicated to learning, growing, and making a difference.

We see these roles as a launchpad for entrepreneurial thinking, as well as building a versatile set of skills, that will hopefully contribute to the growth of great companies tomorrow.

Join our community to be part of this journey too!

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Our events

Community event

Early dinners: early employees in Web3

We're going crypto for this one!

After 2 previous dinners oriented towards the fintech and consumer industries, we've picked Web3 as our next theme to gather between early builders.​

Join us to discuss your daily experiences, share knowledge about the blockchain world and navigate the challenges of scaling in such a quickly expanding industry.​​

Space is limited, so don't miss out on this opportunity to connect with other fellows. See you there!
Workshop

Being an early employee in a startup

Introducing our first workshop - exclusively for the Early Builders community members!

We had the pleasure to host a workshop about building Partnerships.

Thank you to our experts Robin Dohin, Head of Partnerships from Qonto and Hippolyte Thibierge, Partnerships Manager from Hero and cofounder of Partnershift for sharing their precious insights with our community, in a small-group format. 🌟
Public event

𝗙𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝟬 𝘁𝗼 🦄

We've sat with 2 early employees who've experienced the journey within successful startups that became 🦄:

👉 Tania Kefs, ex-VP Customer Success Aircall (Employee #1)
👉 ​Nicolas Sitter, ex-Product & Data Director Ankorstore (Employee #2)​

They were there from the start and have seen it all - from building the founding team, signing the first clients, and securing initial funding, to scaling up, going international, and raising mega rounds...

Many thanks to 50 Partners for hosting this insightful talk!
Public event

Early employees: what comes next

Happy to host 3 rockstars - Kevin Aserraf #8 from Alan, Luka Caratsch #10 from Swan and Stanislas Chertok #1 from Shares - to share their journey among their companies from day one.

Join us as they reflect back on their professional journeys, challenges, and successes as pioneers within their organizations.
Public event

Being an early employee in a startup

Nicolas Marchais to share insights on his role at Spendesk as a #1 employee!

From day-one, he led Spendesk in your roleIf you're an early employee in an early-stage startup, jumping from different missions, or looking for a job as, this event is for you!

Many thanks to our sponsors Hexa and Emblem.
Community Event

Early dinners: early employees in Fintechs

New year coming in, we’ve also super proud to launch new initiatives and the first of them is the Early Dinners — a monthly gathering with a limited number of attendees, focusing on a common topic, and having a good time all together.

Here is a photo from the first edition  at Dalia Group (hi Julien Casbas) gathering early builders from fintech and insurtech companies such as Pivot, Orus, Formance, Silvr, Hyperline, Kulipa and Swan.