Venture Capital Professionals - AI Residency (Part-time) | Frontier AI Research
Mentis AI
About Us Mentis AI operates at the confluence of institutional finance and cutting-edge AI technologies. Our dedicated team merges substantial financial services experience from institutions like Lazard and Partners Group with advanced machine learning and applied AI research. Based in both London and San Francisco, we partner with leading AI research laboratories to enhance model reasoning, generalization, and decision-making in high-stakes financial scenarios.The Opportunity The integration of AI into venture capital workflows is advancing rapidly, from deal sourcing and founder assessment to market evaluation, term sheet negotiation, and portfolio development. This part-time residency offers venture capital professionals the chance to gain practical insights into the construction, evaluation, and enhancement of advanced AI systems within the framework of early and growth-stage investments.Your ResponsibilitiesDevelop Expert Benchmarks: Create and validate real-world investment memoranda, market assessments, and frameworks for evaluating founders that are utilized to assess frontier AI systems.Analyze Model Reasoning: Identify weaknesses in AI-generated venture analyses, pinpointing gaps in logic, assumptions, or investment intuition.Create Evaluation Frameworks: Translate how venture capitalists assess founders, size markets, evaluate competitive landscapes, and build portfolios across various stages and sectors into challenges that test the limits of AI reasoning.Assess Human vs. Machine Judgment: Systematically compare discrepancies between professional venture assessments and AI-generated outputs across deal evaluation, term sheet formulation, and portfolio management environments.Why This Experience MattersBe among the first venture capital professionals to engage directly with how frontier AI models interpret early-stage investing, founder evaluation, and portfolio management.Establish a unique profile for those aiming to merge venture capital with AI, whether in a fund, at an AI startup, or in entrepreneurial ventures.Gain hands-on experience in how AI is transforming venture workflows, from sourcing and due diligence to writing investment memoranda, engaging with boards, and monitoring portfolios.Who You AreA professional with 4+ years of venture capital investing experience at a prestigious VC firm (e.g., Sequoia Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, Accel, Index Ventures).
Feb 23, 2026