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# Founder Associate Intern @Hexa (WTF Studio) at Hexa

- **Company:** Hexa
- **Location:** Paris, France
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Posted:** 2026-07-31
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-06
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/hexa/ede8e673-9e97-4307-9ee8-5b30dc4be50b

## Job description

Descriptif du poste

You will join WTF Studio, a new studio vertical at Hexa led by Raphaël Vullierme https://www.linkedin.com/in/raphaelvullierme/, serial entrepreneur (who you might know from Luko), Partner at Hexa Start and Louise https://www.linkedin.com/in/louise-texier1/, Go-To-Market Lead.

How we work: We act as the “3rd Co-founder.” We find unique ideas, we recruit top-tier Founders to lead them, and we help them sprint from Day 0 to Series A.

This role fuses the strategic sophistication of venture capital - market analysis, thesis generation, and access to elite networks - with the hands-on thrill of the zero-to-one journey. You won’t just pick the winners; you’ll work alongside founders to build them.

The Mission: You will work directly with Louise and Raphaël on :

1. Strategy & validation: You’ll help us go from zero to conviction. You will deconstruct market opportunities, map the competitive terrain, and interface with business leaders to turn a simple spark into a scalable blueprint.
2. Launching new ventures: With the Studio team, you’ll assemble top teams and support them in finding the first customers / design Partner
3. Supporting our Portfolio: Act as a “GTM SWAT Team” for our live startups, helping their founders solve their most critical early-stage blocks (Sales, Ops, Product).

This is not a standard internship. It is a masterclass in entrepreneurship. You’ll get the opportunity to learn from top entrepreneurs and see what really moves the needle during the very first weeks of ambitious companies.

P.S. We view this internship as a launchpad. For exceptional performers, this role is designed as a potential fast-track to a full-time position within or one of our newly created ventures or the studio.

💯 Your responsibilities

You will operate at the Studio Level, working on 2-3 companies at a time.

1. New Ventures

- Ideation & Validation: Conduct deep-dive market analysis to decide which ideas we should launch next (Market sizing, competitor mapping, customer interviews).
- Founder Scouting: Help us identify and hunt the future CEOs and CTOs of our next startups.
- Investment Committee: Help craft the narrative and build pitch decks to convince the Hexa partners to fund our new projects.

1. Portfolio Support

- GTM Execution: Work alongside our Founders to set up their initial sales engines (Outbound campaigns, CRM setup, Lead scraping).
- Operational SWAT: A Founder is drowning in admin or operations? You jump in, fix the process, automate it, and hand it back.
- Studio Ops: Help Louise build the “Studio Machine” - creating the playbooks and tools that allow us to launch startups faster and better.

Profil recherché

- Available for 6 months, starting ASAP.
- Education: End-of-studies or Gap Year (Top Business or Engineering School).
- Experience: You have at least one experience in VC, Consulting, M&A, or (ideally) at an early-stage startup.
- High Agency: You are self-directed. When faced with the unknown, you research, learn, and execute without needing a roadmap.
- Generalist “Killer”: You are comfortable discussing strategy with Raphaël in the morning and scraping emails for a Founder in the afternoon.
- Resilient: You thrive in chaos and ambiguity.
- Language: Native or bilingual proficiency in English. French is a plus, but not required.
- 🚀 The “School of Entrepreneurship”: Learn daily from Raphaël Vullierme (ex-founder @ Luko). You will gain exposure to multiple business models and multiple founding teams at once.
- 🧠 Network: Direct access to the Hexa Core Team and the founders of our 35+ portfolio companies.
- 🚇 Green transportation: you’ll get compensation to pay for your green transportation to and from the office, whether you ride the metro, train, come by bike, electric scooter, or any other green modes of transportation to the office - as part of Swile’s mobility subscription
- 😋 Lunch: Swile Card (covered at 50%).
- 🎉 Demotime: A quarterly offsite where all our startups pitch and demo their latest products.
- 🏢 The HQ: Work from our legendary offices in the 10th arrondissement

Déroulement des entretiens

We move fast. The process takes <2 weeks.

1. Screening Call with Louise (20 min).
2. Builder Interview with Louise (GTM Lead) to test your logic and hustle (45 min).
3. Async Case Study & live restitution at our paris offices
4. Final Round with Raphaël to test your ambition and culture fit (30 min).
5. Reference checks

Hexa is committed to creating a diverse environment. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment irrespective of gender, origins, identity, background and sexual orientations. We are aware there’s a long way to go with regards to diversity in our industry, which is why we encourage all applicants- and especially those listed above- to apply to our open positions.

## About Hexa

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Hexa is a multi-stage startup studio that partners with founders to build, launch, and scale software companies from scratch.
- **Entity Type**: Private (multi-stage startup studio; operates Start, Sprint, and Scale tracks)
- **Headquarters**: Paris, France (12 rue Martel 75010)
- **Founded**: 2011
- **Founders**: Not publicly listed as a single founder; built as a studio by a founding team.

## Core Business
- Primary industry/industries: Venture Building / Startup Studio / Company Creation
- Target customers: Aspiring and experienced entrepreneurs (B2B, B2C, Enterprise tech founders)
- Mission or purpose statement: "To build alongside founders, not from the sidelines" – creating companies that leave a mark on the world by combining hands-on operational support with capital.

## Products & Services
- **Hexa Start**: A 12-month, intensive program for entrepreneurs who want to build a company from scratch (often before they have a concrete idea). Hexa provides the idea, team, co-founder, and covers all costs until the company becomes independent.
- **Hexa Sprint**: A 6-month program for founding teams who already have an idea and are looking for their first check (pre-seed). Offers €500k (€20k convertible note for 4% + €480k convertible note with MFN & cap at €8M).
- **Hexa Scale**: A growth-stage program for post-product-market-fit companies ($1–10M ARR, 10–40% YoY growth). Hexa invests €5–20M per company, takes a majority stake, and provides hands-on operational support (GTM, product, AI strategy, international expansion, hiring) for 9–12 months.
- **In-house Expertise**: 30+ experts in Product Design, Product Management, Engineering (via hired teams), GTM, Sales, Marketing, Finance, Legal, People & Talent, Comms & Brand, Community, and Investing.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Combined valuation of launched companies exceeds **$5 billion**.
- **Key Metric**: **50+ companies launched**; **2,600+ employees** across portfolio companies; **12 exits**.
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Not explicitly listed on the site, but the studio itself acts as the primary investor and operator. Portfolio includes multiple billion-dollar companies (names not publicly listed in the provided data).
- **Growth Signals**: Studio has been operating since 2011 and has scaled from 0 to 50+ companies. The addition of the Scale track indicates a pivot to later-stage growth. Receives ~1,000 founder applications per year, selecting ~12 founders (2 per project) annually for the Start track.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Hands-on, not hands-off**: Unlike traditional accelerators or VCs, Hexa provides a full in-house team of operators (product, design, GTM, legal, finance) working alongside founders for 12 months (Start) or 9–12 months (Scale).
- **Founder-friendly majority stake**: For Scale, Hexa takes a majority stake but claims to be "the world’s most founder-friendly majority investor" – founders remain in the driver's seat with active board support.
- **Proven track record**: 50+ companies, $5B combined valuation, 12 exits, spanning 12+ years of SaaS expertise.
- **End-to-end platform**: Covers the entire lifecycle from idea (Start) to pre-seed (Sprint) to growth (Scale) – rare in the startup studio space.
- **Built-in network & resources**: Founders get immediate access to a team of 30+ experts, legal, finance, recruiting, and a community of other founders.

## Strategic Focus
- **Scaling the Scale track**: The newer Hexa Scale program is a key growth driver, targeting profitable, capital-efficient B2B SaaS companies with $1–10M ARR.
- **AI & embedded finance**: Hexa Scale explicitly helps companies with AI strategy and adding fintech/embedded finance capabilities.
- **International expansion**: Helping portfolio companies expand into new geographies and verticals.
- **Maintaining high selectivity**: Keeping the Start track highly curated (~12 founders/year) to ensure deep support and quality outcomes.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: "You'll never build alone" – the studio emphasizes deep collaboration, ambition, humility, and execution. The team is composed of entrepreneurs and expert operators.
- **Remote/Hybrid Policy**: Hexa is based in Paris. For the Start track, a presence at HQ is important to benefit from resources and mentorship. Sprint is remote-friendly but based in France/Europe for events. Scale is likely remote-friendly with in-person board/partner meetings.
- **Perks & Engineering Culture**: No software engineers in the core team – each startup's product is built by engineers recruited specifically for that company. This means engineers get to join a funded startup with a built-in support system from day one. The studio provides legal, finance, recruiting, and strategic support so engineers can focus on product.
- **Career Path**: Two kinds of roles: (1) the core team that builds the machine (partners, product managers, designers, GTM, finance, legal) and (2) founding hires inside the startups coming out of the studio. Either way, you're in "before it exists" – a high-risk, high-reward environment with significant ownership and impact.

## Sources
1. [hexa.com](https://www.hexa.com/)
2. [hexa.com/positions](https://www.hexa.com/positions)
3. [jobs.ashbyhq.com/hexa](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/hexa)
4. [hexa.com/team](https://www.hexa.com/team)
5. [hexa.com/faq](https://www.hexa.com/faq)

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