--- title: 'Expert Panel at The Utopia Venture Platform' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/expert-panel-the-utopia-venture-platform-global-fqqn8tqty50y' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-09-05' --- # Expert Panel at The Utopia Venture Platform - **Company:** The Utopia Venture Platform - **Location:** Global - **Employment:** temporary - **Work type:** remote - **Posted:** 2026-06-25 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-05 - **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/the-studio/ccb09b81-d9b9-4bfb-a62b-a8fdfbfc1c69 ## Job description ## JOIN THE UTOPIA EXPERT NETWORK UTOPIA is a venture platform that combines capital, technology and market access to support some of the world’s best founders building AI native solutions for and across the world’s fastest growing emerging markets. Our platform: The Utopia Studio - Our AI native venture studio A-typical Ventures - Our Middle East+ fund based in Doha The Radical Fund - Our Southeast Asia-focused climate venture fund Our technology layer: UTOPIA OS is our shared AI operating system, tooling, and infrastructure stack enabling our founders to build better and connecting a faster path to Series A and beyond. WE ARE INVITING EXPERIENCED EXPERTS AND OPERATORS TO JOIN THE UTOPIA EXPERT NETWORK TO SUPPORT FOUNDERS, FELLOWS, AND PORTFOLIO COMPANIES THROUGH: - Founder mentorship and office hours - Technical and industry expertise - Strategic introductions and partnerships - Commercial and enterprise GTM support - Regulatory and sovereign engagement - Fundraising and investor readiness - Workshops, research, and ecosystem collaboration - Venture studio co-building opportunities We especially value operators and experts with deep lived experience inside complex systems - the people closest to the hidden problems that markets often overlook. WHY JOIN? Work Alongside High-Impact Founders Expand Your Global Network Access Emerging Technologies & Markets First Contribute Beyond Traditional Mentorship Build Relationships Across the Ecosystem Join Ecosystem Events & Global Gatherings THIS IS A FLEXIBLE EXPERT NETWORK DESIGNED AROUND MEANINGFUL COLLABORATION RATHER THAN FIXED COMMITMENTS. Experts can contribute through founder mentorship, office hours, technical and commercial guidance, strategic introductions, fundraising support, workshops, research, and venture studio collaborations. Engagement may range from one-off advisory sessions to longer-term support for portfolio companies, depending on your expertise, interests, and availability. There is no minimum time commitment. We believe innovation should be inclusive and globally distributed. Our team is built on openness, curiosity, and collaboration — with people from across the GCC, Africa, and Southeast Asia working together to build meaningful ventures. All roles are based in Doha, Qatar, with flexible hybrid options and global travel opportunities (unless otherwise stated). We welcome talent from every background to join us in shaping the future of AI-native innovation. ## About The Utopia Venture Platform ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: The Utopia Venture Platform is an AI-native venture builder and studio that partners with domain experts to transform high-barrier problems into scalable, high-return global investments, compressing the path from concept to Series A. - **Entity Type**: Private (Venture Studio / Venture Builder) - **Headquarters**: Doha, Qatar - **Founded**: Not publicly available - **Founders**: Shamona Maharaj (Founding & Managing Partner), Roo Rogers (Founding & Managing Partner), Alina Truhina, Konstantin Behr (Chief Strategy Officer), and others; the studio operates with 13 passports across four continents. ## Core Business - **Primary industry**: Venture Building / Venture Studio, Artificial Intelligence, Software - **Target customers**: Domain experts and high-agency founders with operating insight into industry bottlenecks; ventures are built for the Global South and global markets. - **Mission or purpose**: To be the best company builder in the world — transforming high-barrier problems into scalable, investable companies by surrounding operating insight with product, technology, capital, and growth support. ## Products & Services - **The Utopia Studio (Core Venture Building)**: An AI-native venture builder that co-builds AI companies with domain experts. It both builds new ventures and re-engineers existing ones for AI-driven growth, powered by UTOPIA OS — a modular, adaptive stack tailored to each venture. - **UTOPIA OS**: The studio's proprietary operating system — a modular, adaptive stack that powers each venture, compressing the path from concept to Series A to under 24 months. - **Fellows Program**: A structured program for domain experts to co-build ventures with the studio. Fellows bring their industry bottleneck and operating insight, while the studio provides product shaping, technology, capital, and growth support. - **Venture Platform & Infrastructure**: A platform that provides AI-native engineering, infrastructure, capital (funding aligned from first proof to scale), and growth support (brand, demand, and go-to-market). ## Market Standing - **Valuation**: Not disclosed (private venture studio) - **Key Metric**: 11 Fellows, 6 Opportunity spaces, co-building globally from Doha; 3 total employees listed on Built In, but the team page shows a larger operator team including partners, engineers, and associates. - **Notable Investors/Partners**: Qatar Development Bank, Atypical Ventures, The Radical Fund; Technology Partners include Convex, Stripe, WorkOS, Vercel, Sentry, Linear, Cursor, Claude, Next.js, NVIDIA, AMD, Railway, PostHog; Ecosystem Partners also listed. - **Growth Signals**: Actively hiring for multiple roles (Founding Product Engineer, Talent Lead, Head of Venture Success & Strategic Partnerships); operating with a global team spanning 13 passports and four continents; targeting the under-served Global South market. ## Competitive Advantages - **Domain-Expert-First Model**: Unlike traditional venture studios that build around their own ideas, the studio starts with the domain expert's operating insight, translating "industry scar tissue" into product logic. - **AI-Native from Day One**: Every venture is built as an AI-native company from inception, not retrofitted. - **Compressed Time to Market**: Aims to go from concept to Series A in under 24 months. - **Full-Stack Support**: Combines product, technology, capital, and growth under one roof — "Studio and funds fuse into a single system." - **Global South Focus**: Positions itself uniquely in Doha, Qatar, with a mandate to build for and from the Global South, a large and often overlooked market. ## Strategic Focus - **Current priorities**: Scaling the Fellows program, building new ventures from operating insights, and expanding the platform infrastructure. Actively hiring for key roles to support venture success and platform development. - **Direction for growth**: To become the best company builder in the world by continuously learning from every insight, skill, fellow, and portfolio company — feeding one continuously learning machine. ## Why Work Here - **Culture highlights**: The studio emphasizes humility, empathy, challenge, and ambition. Core commitments include: "Tell the truth. Hold the trust," "We hold a view and bet the studio that way," and "We ship to operational systems. Not to the pilot graveyard." The team values soft feedback as a disservice and prioritizes honest, direct communication. - **Remote/hybrid/office policy**: In-Office — employees work from physical offices in Doha, Qatar (Ad Dawhah). The company has an OnSite workspace. - **Notable perks or engineering culture**: The engineering culture is AI-native, using cutting-edge tools (Cursor, Claude, Next.js, Convex, Stripe, Vercel, etc.). Engineers are expected to build systems that "survive messy data, regulated environments, and operators who will break anything not built properly." The team operates as "pods" that are treated as theses, not folders — backed with capital, time, and reputation. The studio prides itself on building structures that outlast meetings and coaching the room, not the deck. ## Sources 1. [utopia-studio.co (Homepage)](https://www.utopia-studio.co/) 2. [utopia-studio.co (Team)](https://www.utopia-studio.co/team) 3. [utopia-studio.co (How We Build)](https://www.utopia-studio.co/how-we-build) 4. [jobs.ashbyhq.com (Careers)](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/the-studio) 5. [builtin.com (Company Profile)](http://www.builtin.com/company/utopia-studio) ## Other roles at The Utopia Venture Platform - [Chief Operating Officer](https://feeny.ai/job/chief-operating-officer-the-utopia-venture-platform-global-mxswv19xg4vb) — Global - [Fellow - Industry/Domain Expert](https://feeny.ai/job/fellow-industry-domain-expert-the-utopia-venture-platform-doha-yb32s4me8av9) — Doha, Qatar - [Founding Product Engineer — Venture Platform & Infrastructure](https://feeny.ai/job/founding-product-engineer-venture-platform-infrastructure-the-utopia-venture-ncaye4h6k011) — Doha, Qatar