Pioneer

Pioneer: a startup 'generator' that scouts and funds founders on the spot

Daniel Gross pitches Pioneer as part search engine, part accelerator: it scouts promising people worldwide using psychometrics and ML, then creates and funds a company for them on the spot to overcome self-editing.

“we try to scout the internet for promising people around the world working on kind of interesting stuff, and we spot them using psychometrics, a little bit of machine learning, a bunch of different things. Once we find them, if they seem good, we create a company for them on the spot and then fund them on the spot. Kind of push them over the edge. It's kind of my view that one of the main constrictions on societal growth and also as well as kind of the number of interesting startups we see every year is self-editing.”