Venture Architect

What You Will Do

1. Discovery, Validation & Venture Design

• Identify promising deep-tech opportunities and evaluate their commercial potential.
• Run crisp market research, customer conversations, and competitive scans to validate demand.
• Translate technical breakthroughs into clear problem statements, value propositions, and early business models.
• Shape GTM hypotheses—segments, pricing, channels—and test them quickly.
• Actively identify and test new tools—especially AI workflows—to increase speed and quality across research, validation, and venture design.
  

2. Build Momentum Through Selling & Stakeholder Activation

• Drive early venture traction by getting meetings, pitching concepts, and rallying partners.
• Help persuade founders, corporates, research institutes, and early customers to engage in pilots or co-development.
• Prepare sharp materials for Investment Committee discussions.
• Become the “glue” that keeps momentum high across scientists, founders, and commercial partners.
  

3. Talent & Founder Development

• Support sourcing and assessing CEO/CTO-calibre founders (with Ops support).
• Evaluate founder–problem fit and team complementarity.
• Work closely with founders to hit early milestones: customer validation, prototype development, licensing discussions, and early pilots.
  

5. Portfolio & Programme Contribution

• Support portfolio companies on targeted commercial and operational tasks.
• Help shape a strong pipeline across Advanced Manufacturing, MedTech, Robotics, and Energy.