Venture Scout (Longevity)

Specific Responsibilities

• Identify Deal-flows and Cultivate Relationships in longevity space
• Develop and maintain strong relationships with startups, entrepreneurial scientists, venture capitalists (VCs), family offices, and investment syndicates.
• Market Awareness: Stay abreast of the latest trends and developments in longevity, providing insights and recommendations to keep the project at the forefront of industry advancements.
• Representation at events: attend industry events with the purpose of seeking out existing startups or pre-startups (research projects that could be transformed into startups).
• Managing speaking opportunities for the Founder at these conferences or events.
• Helping develop a business model for a holding company with focus on longevity. Focus on acquisitions of technologies, R&D or startups.
• Other administrative or logistical tasks related to the broader operations of the fund and its projects may be given at any point of time.

Requirements

• The ideal candidate will have deep personal passion for longevity and understanding of early stage startups.
• This individual should also have experience reaching out WITH RESULTS to large number of warm leads, managing people and to be an effective communicator.
• Be prepared for a chaotic, unpredictable, non-linear environment with unconventional tasks and problems. You need to be a self-starter and able to work in a dynamic environment with minimal hand-holding.
• We need an ability to be mobile and responsive and never say to any task "this is a job for another person". There are no tasks "too unimportant for my level".

Qualifications

• At least MSc in longevity-related STEM (biology, medicine, pharmacology, biochemistry, genomics, computational biology)
• Preference for experience in early-stage or growth-stage startups or at least research projects that secured grants, prizes or other non-equity funding
• Network and Charisma: Possess an extensive network within the longevity community, showcasing the ability to leverage connections to find interesting startups
• Intelligent use of auxiliary AI tools
• Strong communication skills
• Perfect English is a must. Working/native knowledge of other major global languages is a plus
• Experience working with a team in a non-corporate environment. We do NOT have various standard corporate processes in place!