What venture firms are hiring for
Half the associate job you are hiring for is already agent work.
We read 56 venture job posts from the last 90 days. Every one asks for the same three things: monitor the market, keep the pipeline and CRM clean, draft the memo. An agent on your machine does that part now. Your team keeps the founders and the judgment.
VC job posts hire people for agent work
Duties named in 56 venture and CVC investing posts, Jun 10 to Sep 8, 2026. Count of posts naming each duty.
Posts naming the duty
Posts asking the hire to use AI
Source: Olympos analysis; LinkedIn job postings Jun to Sep 2026 (Alfa AI, GIC, Leonis, Health Velocity, Dragonfly, M12, AMD, OpenAI, Bessemer, a16z, Lowercarbon, Robinhood Ventures, HarbourVest, Pantheon, Capital One, 3M Ventures and others)
Sep 2026
Senior Associate · San Francisco · on-site231 applicants
What you will do
Healthcare venture fund, Series A and B
- Summarize and type up all call notes and input in deals database (all Partners do this as well).
- Refine existing database to track and monitor sourcing activities; log new opportunities into CRM database.
- Lead financial analysis and diligence on customers, products, technology, teams, and markets.
- Identify manual or repetitive processes across the firm (call notes, CRM logging, thematic work, data room analysis) and build AI-enabled workflows to automate or accelerate them.
- Build and maintain relationships with founders, co-investors and LPs.
Yellow: the agent takes it. Verbatim from a LinkedIn posting, September 2026.
Associate bands in these posts run $150,000 to $225,000 before carry.
Give your associate unfair advantage
$5,000 setup · $2,500 a month · cancel monthly. Or no setup fee on a 6-month term. You keep the machine, the accounts and the subscription.
Where the hours go
Your partners are typing call notes.
One post says the associate will "summarize and type up all call notes and input in deals database (all Partners do this as well)." Another wants the CRM to capture "~all known projects." A third asks for "continuous monitoring of market trends, industry news, and startup companies." This is what the people who carry the fund do between meetings. The agent does it in the thread where the meeting was discussed.
#deals · threadExample, names invented
Partner 2:14 PM
Call with Northwind Robotics, CEO. Raising a Series A in Q1. $8M run-rate, churn flat, 40 people. Wants an intro to our logistics LP. Not sure we have met them before.
Agent 2:14 PM
Logged to the deals database and linked to the company record.
- You have met them. Seed round, March 2025. Passed: too early. Notes attached.
- Two portfolio companies sell into the same buyers. Flagged the overlap for Thursday.
- Intro drafted to the LP in your voice. Sitting in your drafts, not sent.
- Memo skeleton started from the call. Comps pulled from the pipeline.
Partner 2:16 PM
Send the intro.
Yellow: the thing the partner would have found out a week later.
No more typing in 48 hours
$5,000 setup · $2,500 a month · cancel monthly. Or no setup fee on a 6-month term. You keep the machine, the accounts and the subscription.
Where the market already is
The funds you compete with already built this.
Fourteen of the 56 posts ask the hire to work with AI or to build the firm's own tooling. The other 42 are hiring a person to do the same work by hand.
- Leonis Capital — "built our own research software, Leonis Alfa, to systematically track technical, talent, and commercial signals."
- GIC — "Leverage AI/LLMs to increase the speed and depth of our investment diligence process."
- Bessemer Venture Partners — "AI native. Constantly using and experimenting with cutting edge products, technologies, and models."
- Health Velocity Capital — "build AI-enabled workflows to automate or accelerate them. Views AI as core to the job, not an add-on."
Also StepStone, OpenAI, Menlo Research, Crossover VC, Robinhood Ventures, Silverton Partners, Rise Growth Partners, Opus Advisors and Plug and Play. By hand: Alfa AI, Steven.com, Dragonfly, UCEA, Cleveland Clinic, M12, AMD, Goanna, SAIC, Village Global, GEM, SpringTide, Novartis Venture Fund, D2SF, Stripe Intercept, HarbourVest, Pantheon, Lowercarbon, Capital One, 3M Ventures, Vanguard, DRW, 1752vc and 16 more.
Get where they are in 48 hours
$5,000 setup · $2,500 a month · cancel monthly. Or no setup fee on a 6-month term. You keep the machine, the accounts and the subscription.
Why the agent has something to work with
One in four founders we source raises from a top-tier VC.
The agent runs on two years of Olympos sourcing data: stealth founders the day a top-tier VC starts following them, scored against your thesis, pushed to your sheet. That is the plumbing five firms already run weekly.
401 signals, 123 raises, 12 investments
One San Francisco Bay Area client, founder signals delivered by Olympos and what happened next.
Founders
31%raised from top-tier VCs
$1.8Bfollow-on funding secured
282 daysmedian signal to follow-on
12investments made
Source: Olympos analysis; client sourcing sheet, Crunchbase, PitchBook
Sep 2026
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