What do funds hire associates for? We read the 56 posts on LinkedIn this summer. Their duties, in their own phrases:
“Source and evaluate opportunities. Map the landscape and build theses. Lead diligence and draft the investment memo. Support the portfolio and LP reporting.”
Duties named in VC and CVC job posts
56 jobs posted on LinkedIn June to September 2026
September 2026
Here is one, verbatim from LinkedIn, September 2026. Yellow: Olympos agent takes it.
Senior VC Associate · San Francisco · on-site231 applicants
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.
These associate roles pay $150k to $225k, before carry.
The agent does the groundwork. Your associates build the relationships.
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