General Partner
MLabs · New York, NY · 1 mo ago
On-siteOTHR$250k–$300k/yrFull-time
Key Responsibilities
- Deliver rigorous, structured feedback and tactical insights to incoming startup teams navigating the accelerator pipeline.
- Actively guide founders toward establishing product-market fit, structuring growth frameworks, and refining core product strategies.
- Work hands-on with early-stage teams to architecture, refine, and optimize institutional investor pitches ahead of designated Demo Days.
- Manage investor matching pipelines and provide high-touch support to secure structured seed-stage closures.
- Lead formal interview frameworks and thorough evaluations of early-stage applicants.
- Develop clear investment and admission conviction based on early operational signals, macroeconomic market trends, and technical founder capabilities.
- Act as a primary trusted advisor and sounding board to portfolio executives during complex inflections, including product pivots, co-founder equity alignment challenges, and high-stakes operational transitions.
- Author insightful publications, ecosystem essays, and highly analytical content for dissemination across broad distribution channels, including podcasts, professional platforms, and social networks such as LinkedIn and X.
Requirements
- Proven Founder Track Record: Prior professional experience successfully establishing, scaling, and leading a technology startup as a primary founder or early executive, with a nuanced understanding of the 0-to-1 operational lifecycle.
- Domain Deep Expertise: Profound structural comprehension and network familiarity within the Web3/Cryptocurrency, Distributed Systems, or Artificial Intelligence sectors.
- Technical Evaluation & Judgment: Demonstrated analytical capacity to critically assess the capabilities, structural ambition, and strategic vision of technical founders and emerging markets.
- High Emotional Intelligence (EQ): Exceptional interpersonal capabilities, discretion, and standard of trust necessary to handle sensitive, high-stakes organizational and founder matters.
- Geographic Location: Absolute requirement to be located in, or immediately relocate to, New York City to enable seamless, in-person operations and advisory frameworks.
Preferred Qualifications
- Venture Architecture Experience: Track record of deploying early-stage capital or executing successful institutional investments in seed or pre-seed technology entities.
- Established Capital Network: A highly robust, pre-existing network consisting of tier-one crypto, decentralized infrastructure, or artificial intelligence institutional allocators and angel investors.