Olympos

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

Financial models and investment memos drafted before the second call. Deal flow sourced and the landscape tracked daily. Portfolio and LP updates on schedule. Call notes in the CRM within the hour.

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VC 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.

  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.

56 venture job posts from the last 90 days ask for the same three things: monitor the market, keep the pipeline and CRM clean, draft the memo. Your own Olympos agent on your machine does that now.

VC job posts hire people for agent work
Duties named in 56 venture and CVC investing posts, Jun 10 to Sep 8, 2026.
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.
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

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."

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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 asking for AI: StepStone · Crossover VC · Robinhood Ventures · Silverton Partners · Opus Advisors · Plug and PlayBy 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 · Andreessen Horowitz · Goldman Sachs · Google · AWS · Cohere · Ontario Teachers' Venture Growth · Toyota Ventures · Nebius · AngelList · RBC · SemiAnalysis · Flashpoint · Outlander VC · Initio Capital · Voy Ventures · Healthcare SharesAlso asking for AI: StepStone · Crossover VC · Robinhood Ventures · Silverton Partners · Opus Advisors · Plug and PlayBy 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 · Andreessen Horowitz · Goldman Sachs · Google · AWS · Cohere · Ontario Teachers' Venture Growth · Toyota Ventures · Nebius · AngelList · RBC · SemiAnalysis · Flashpoint · Outlander VC · Initio Capital · Voy Ventures · Healthcare Shares

Get where they are in 48 hours

Track record

157 companies and founders raised $1.1B after we flagged them, a median 85 days later.

Every row is a company or a stealth founder that appeared in a client delivery before any priced round. Days from our flag to the round; the rounds are public record. Updated as outcomes are verified.

AI infrastructure and developer tools 28 companies · $338M raised after our signal

Fireworks AI123 days$77M
WaveForms AI stealth74 days$43MAndreessen Horowitz, Techsphere
Voyage AI153 days$28M
Positron AI284 days$24M
Datavolo21 days$21M
Azimuth AI131 days$19M
Nuon172 days$16M
StackGen109 days$12M
Sawmills271 days$10M
Lanai223 days$10M
Oumi stealth89 days$10MObvious Ventures, Venrock, Plug and Play
NomadicML stealth676 days$8MJeff Dean, TQ Ventures, Pear VC
Substrate100 days$8M
OpenInfer76 days$8M
Zipline AI stealth417 days$7MWing VC, Exceptional, Stripe, BoxGroup
definity47 days$4M
Okareo19 days$4M
Blitzy4 days$4M
Camber279 days$4M
Neuphonic76 days$4M
Vectorize123 days$4M
LogicStar AI200 days$3M
FalkorDB58 days$3M
Keep61 days$3M
Future AGI137 days$2M
Laminar (YC S24)82 days$500K
Blacksmith22 days$500K
Hypercubic stealth145 days$500KY Combinator

Other 71 companies · $325M raised after our signal

Hedra stealth$42M
Aurasell AI stealth$30M
Monk stealth$29M
Straiker stealth$21M
Arcade.dev stealth$12M
Jimini Health stealth$8M
juna.ai3 days$8M
Bluespine180 days$7M
&AI223 days$7M
Kiva AI18 days$7M
SkySQL254 days$7M
Browserbase86 days$6M
TwoStep Therapeutics46 days$6M
:probabl.92 days$6M
Cove145 days$6M
vijil121 days$6M
Prime Security stealth$6M
Tako145 days$6M
XDemics Corporation117 days$6M
David AI195 days$6M
SurePath AI56 days$5M
marimo253 days$5M
Ensho Therapeutics109 days$5M
All Hands AI27 days$5M
Blinq.io61 days$5M
RL Core Technologies11 days$5M
PuppyGraph202 days$5M
Early146 days$5M
Edera82 days$5M
Tracebit11 days$5M
Featherless AI94 days$5M
Realm.Security, Inc stealth$5M
StartX stealth$5M
Pump.co stealth$4M
Inception Cyber stealth$3M
Riley AI132 days$3M
Not Diamond39 days$2M
Clearly AI (YC S24)82 days$500K
Fuse61 days$500K
Synnax54 days$500K
OneGrep (YC W24)28 days$500K
DaLMatian22 days$500K
Felafax AI (YC S24)82 days$500K
Midship82 days$500K
Attunement AI (YC W24)28 days$500K
Lighthouz AI (YC S24)306 days$500K
Standard Data (YC S24)61 days$500K
Kuzco66 days$500K
Elevate AI131 days$500K
CloudCruise (YC W24)22 days$500K
Assembly22 days$500K
Haystack Software26 days$500K
MagiCode (YC S24)26 days$500K
Overstand Labs19 days$500K
The Forecasting Company19 days$500K
Silurian AI12 days$500K
Blast5 days$500K
MinusX5 days$500K
Leeroo68 days$500K
Symphony (YC F24)47 days$500K
Dexter (YC F24)47 days$500K
Bramble (YC F24)26 days$500K
Lightscreen AI (YC F24)26 days$500K
Chorrie12 days$500K
Tiny (YC F24)12 days$500K
Forerunner12 days$500K
Unbound (YC S24)131 days$500K
Overstand Labs stealth$500K
Satlyt49 days$300K
Rapidflare293 days$125K
Lapis stealth$125K

Cybersecurity 7 companies · $169M raised after our signal

Sola Security stealth475 days$93MM12, Moritz, S Capital, S32, New Era
Crogl, Inc.62 days$30M
Clutch Security236 days$28M
Embed Security stealth111 days$6MPaladin Capital
Wald.ai172 days$4M
North Pole Security24 days$4M
PromptArmor (YC W24)22 days$3M

Enterprise software 33 companies · $166M raised after our signal

Cartesia275 days$22M
BRM274 days$22M
Boon289 days$16M
Simple AI stealth592 days$14MYC, Samsung NEXT, True Ventures, Conviction
Tektonic AI48 days$10M
ReevoAI48 days$10M
Tezi AI135 days$9M
Reducto204 days$9M
Magentic stealth270 days$6MSequoia Capital, First Momentum, Westly Group
Exceeds138 days$5M
Hamming AI254 days$4M
Infactory88 days$4M
StepChange.work311 days$4M
Tempest123 days$3M
Linkup52 days$3M
Shush Inc139 days$3M
Zeplyn187 days$3M
Kay.ai4 days$3M
Arphie247 days$3M
EyePop.ai242 days$3M
DryMerge185 days$3M
GovEagle188 days$2M
DeltaGen84 days$1M
Saphira AI (YC S24)82 days$500K
Lumenary (YC S24)33 days$500K
Zeit AI (YC S24)68 days$500K
Momentic22 days$500K
atopile22 days$500K
Duckie (YC W24)28 days$500K
CodeViz (YC S24)110 days$500K
Ryvn (YC F24) stealth161 days$500KY Combinator, Alumni Ventures
Melder stealth68 days$500KY Combinator
Scott AI (YC F25) stealth61 days$500KY Combinator

Hardware, robotics and physical AI 6 companies · $74M raised after our signal

Baya Systems311 days$36M
AheadComputing187 days$22M
CX282 days$15M
Mineflow (YC S24)61 days$500K
Bucket Robotics - (YC S24)54 days$500K
Parametric (YC F25) stealth159 days$500KY Combinator

Healthcare and bio 8 companies · $39M raised after our signal

Citizen Health200 days$14M
World Class Health166 days$8M
RyboDyn Inc.153 days$4M
Nucs AI38 days$4M
Parakeet Health130 days$3M
DANNCE.ai125 days$3M
Helical28 days$2M
Harmonia Healthcare18 days$1M

Consumer 1 companies · $14M raised after our signal

Doji stealth230 days$14MThrive Capital

Fintech 3 companies · $6M raised after our signal

Roe AI153 days$4M
ololand.ai130 days$1M
WNSTN57 days$1M

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Two ways to start.

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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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