Olympos

Your firm's agent, on your machine, run by us.

A Claude-based harness we keep swappable. Slack, WhatsApp or whatever you already use, where every thread is its own session. A memory layer shaped to your workflow. Weekly review so failures reach us before they reach you. Nothing of yours is stored on our side.

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$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.

Clients across the San Francisco Bay Area, New York and Europe, collectively managing over $34B, from global multi-stage funds to deeptech CVCs.

Your machine. Your agent. Your data stays yours.Nothing is stored at Olympos, and the model provider does not train on it. Add it to Slack and see for yourself.

YOUR MACHINE · YOUR ACCOUNTS The agent Claude today · swappable Slack · WhatsApp Email CRM · sheets Data · files open tasks · threads · context Olympos weekly review · fixes remotedesktop no data stored here

Everything runs where it runs today. We operate it; we do not host it.

Harness

Migrate off the hobby setup to a Claude-based harness. Provider stays swappable as models change.

Communication

One agent, omni-channel: Gmail, WhatsApp, Slack, X, LinkedIn, SMS. One thread per task, so context stays isolated instead of bleeding across chats.

Memory

A light layer for open tasks, prior threads and standing context. Built to your workflow, not a PM tool bent to fit.

Swappable model

Claude today. Grok, Astra, Qwen or the next one tomorrow. You are not hard-wired to a provider.

How it works

Three steps, no project plan.

  1. Add us to your Slack. One click, a shared channel, nothing to install.
  2. Agent live in 48 hours. On a machine you own, signed into your accounts, on a model key in your name.
  3. Weekly review. We read the week's threads, fix what broke and ship the next skill. You spend the time on deals.

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
Diligence and models in 51 of 56 posts, sourcing and monitoring in 48, portfolio and LP reporting in 42, CRM and call notes in 15. Only 14 posts ask 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)
OlymposSep 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.

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
401 founder signals delivered, 123 raised (31%), 12 investments made.
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
OlymposSep 2026

Runs inside what you already use: Affinity, Attio, Airtable, PitchBook, Crunchbase, Harmonic, Specter, Slack, Gmail, WhatsApp, LinkedIn, X.

Two ways to start.

OptionSetupMonthlyTerm
Cancel anytime$5,000$2,500Month to month, 10 days' notice
Six months$0$2,500Six months, then month to month

Both include the harness, Slack or your alternative collaboration channel, the memory layer, weekly interaction review and a weekly 30-minute sync. You keep the machine, the accounts and the model subscription: the agent runs on a computer you own, signed into your own Slack, email and CRM, on a model subscription in your name. We operate it by remote desktop and store nothing. If we part ways, everything stays where it is and keeps working. Anything that becomes substantial engineering is scoped and priced first, with your approval.

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Research

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Less discovery, more conviction for Tier 1 VCsTier 1 and feeder deals, n=11327. Bubble: 2025 deal count.
Less discovery, more conviction for Tier 1 VCs
Tier 1 and feeder deals, n=11327. Bubble: 2025 deal count.
Hardware Hybrid Software
Energy and Infra lead average-investment growth; B2B sees the steepest fall in deal count; Aerospace and Robotics gain on both axes; Education and Climate lose on average investment.
Source: Olympos, Crunchbase, PitchBook, RaisingFi. Tier 1 (29 VCs) invested in 82% of all new unicorns, by Series A, since Jan 2022. Feeders invested before T1.
OlymposMay 2026
2026's new $10B startups sit in conviction sectorsSame map as above; color = new 2026 US decacorns minted per sector
2026's new $10B startups sit in conviction sectors
Same map as above; color = new 2026 US decacorns minted per sector
0 1 2 3+ new 2026 decacorns
18 of 19 new 2026 decacorns mint in sectors where deal counts fell but average checks rose — Infra (4), B2B (3), Semis and Health (2 each) lead.
Source: Olympos analysis, PitchBook, Crunchbase. 18 of 19 mapped; Quince (consumer) has no sector bubble.
OlymposAug 2026
New $1B startups mint broadly; $10B stays concentratedSame map; color = new 2026 US unicorns ($1B+ valuation) per sector
New $1B startups mint broadly; $10B stays concentrated
Same map; color = new 2026 US unicorns ($1B+ valuation) per sector
0 1–2 3–5 6+ new 2026 unicorns
Unicorns mint across 14 sectors (Infra ~21, Health 11, B2B 10) — a much broader spread than the year's concentrated $10B class.
Source: Olympos analysis, TechCrunch (Jul 2026 tracker), Crunchbase. 87 of 89 mapped.
OlymposAug 2026
New $10B startups now mint faster than 2021's peakNewly minted US decacorns ($10B+ valuation) per year
New $10B startups now mint faster than 2021's peak
Newly minted US decacorns ($10B+ valuation) per year
New decacorns Rest-of-2026 at annualized pace 2021 record (22)
2026 minted 19 US decacorns by July 24 — an annualized pace of ~34, 1.5× the 2021 record of 22, after a 2023–24 trough of just 4 per year.
Source: Olympos analysis, PitchBook, Crunchbase.
OlymposAug 2026
2021 is now the cheap vintageMedian US VC deal value by series, $M, 2016–2026 (2026 = H1)
2021 is now the cheap vintage
Median US VC deal value by series, $M, 2016–2026 (2026 = H1)
Series D+ Series C Series B Series A Seed
Median deal values in H1 2026 exceed the 2021 boom peak in every series except seed — D+ $150M vs $100M, C $74M vs $52M, B $40M vs $30M.
Source: Olympos analysis, PitchBook-NVCA Q2 2026 Venture Monitor. Some years read off the chart.
OlymposAug 2026
5 US firms raised more than half of all VC dollars in Q1 2026Q1 2026 global VC fund commitments, $B
5 US firms raised more than half of all VC dollars in Q1 2026
Q1 2026 global VC fund commitments, $B
Just five US managers raised more than half of the $60.8B of global VC commitments in Q1 2026. The power law is now about firms, not just startups.
Source: PitchBook — Q1 2026 Global Private Market Fundraising Report
OlymposJun 2026
Tier-1 VCs pay a ~70% premium for AI labsCapital raised vs. valuation; bubble = headcount
Tier-1 VCs pay a ~70% premium for AI labs
Capital raised vs. valuation; bubble = headcount
Tier-1 VC investor No tier-1 backing
Tier-1-backed labs cluster above the diagonal capital-efficiency line; non-tier-1 cluster below. SSI, Thinking Machines, Reflection AI, Skild AI, Periodic Labs, World Labs all carry 5–20× markup on raised capital with tier-1 names attached.
Source: Deedy Das, Olympos. Tier 1 (29 VCs) invested in 82% of new unicorns since 2022
OlymposMay 2026
DeepMind vs OpenAI mafiaHeadcount × total raised; bubble size = last-round valuation ($B)
DeepMind vs OpenAI mafia
Headcount × total raised; bubble size = last-round valuation ($B)
DeepMind alumni OpenAI alumni
OpenAI alumni (8) carry ~$497B in implied value vs DeepMind alumni (14) at ~$59B — an ~8.4× gap. Anthropic alone ($350B) is 6× the entire DeepMind cohort. FTEs sourced via Olympos LinkedIn insights where available; 4 DeepMind valuations estimated from raise × typical AI-infra dilution (~13-15%).
Source: Olympos, Crunchbase, PitchBook, Bloomberg, TechCrunch, press disclosures (May 2026); Financial Times (May 19, 2026)
OlymposMay 2026
Where physical-AI VC went in 2025 and 2026 YTDAnnual VC by category, $B — 2024–2026 YTD split into 4 MECE buckets
Where physical-AI VC went in 2025 and 2026 YTD
Annual VC by category, $B — 2024–2026 YTD split into 4 MECE buckets
Humanoid hardware OEMs Robot foundation models Pure world models Others
Hardware OEMs still dominate (~50–55% of physical-AI VC), but robot foundation models and pure world models together pulled $1.8B in 2026 YTD — the bet on brains has caught up to the bet on bodies.
Source: Olympos dealflow data, PitchBook Robotics, Crunchbase (2025–May 2026)
OlymposMay 2026
$10B flowed to World Models in 18 monthsCapital raised by primary use case
$10B flowed to World Models in 18 months
Capital raised by primary use case
Robot foundation model Pure world model AV simulation (production)
Web-verified totals (May 2026): robot foundation cos raised $6.7B for the least-proven use case vs $3.8B for pure world models — the prerequisite pretraining layer. Capital concentrated on the application layer.
Source: Olympos dealflow data, Crunchbase, public disclosures May 2026
OlymposMay 2026

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We are technical VC and CVC experts with 20+ years experience in early stage venture, quant finance, and data-driven systems. We built every VC or CVC use case you can imagine. We know the data sources, tools, flows, channels, and what makes general partners happy.

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