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 day where half the room are buyers.
What you walk out with
A mapped list of your hundred target accounts and thirty dream buyers, built in week one
A live pipeline: buyer meetings engineered during the season, not after it
Residency fully covered: travel, stay, food, production
Mentors in residence, plus visiting operators and angels, weekly angel dinners
Capital: a flexible offer within guardrails, £20k to £100k, structured around your stage
London demo day with investors and buyers who watched you build
A personal episode arc and a lifetime seat in the Saff alumni row
Who we're looking for
Already building: you've shipped a product with real users or early revenue, no ideas on paper
Able to commit: you can live and build in residence in London for the full six weeks
Muslim founders building across the UK, Europe, or North America, solo or co-founded
You know your buyer: you can name the five customers that would change your company, and we'll help you reach them
Positive action statement
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 5–7% of the population (source: proprietary analysis of 953 deals across the UK'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.
Saff is a six-week residency programme based in London designed specifically for Muslim founders who have already shipped products with real users or early revenue. The programme brings together ten founders to live in one house while building go-to-market systems for their companies, with support from in-residence mentors, visiting operators, and angel investors. Participants receive fully covered residency costs, access to a curated pipeline of buyer meetings engineered during the season, and flexible capital ranging from £20k to £100k based on their stage. The residency culminates in a London demo day attended by investors and buyers who have observed the founders' progress throughout the programme. Saff operates under positive action provisions to address the documented underrepresentation of Muslim founders in UK venture capital, with only 3% of UK venture deals going to Muslim founders despite representing 5-7% of the population.
