Venture Capital (AI Residency)

📋 Description

• • The Venture Capital (AI Residency) role at Aptura Inc. offers senior research analysts and portfolio managers a unique opportunity to bridge institutional investment expertise with frontier AI systems, contributing to how AI reasons and makes decisions in high-stakes financial contexts.
• • Day to day, the resident will develop and iterate realistic prompts to test AI-generated insights, systematically evaluate differences between human and machine judgment in deal evaluation and portfolio management, design frameworks that translate VC evaluation criteria into AI challenges, and build expert benchmarks such as investment memos and market analyses to assess AI performance.
• • The team at Mentis AI combines deep asset management experience from firms like Lazard and Partners Group with machine learning and applied AI research, operating across London and San Francisco while collaborating with leading AI labs to advance AI’s role in financial decision-making.
• • Through this residency, the individual will gain hands-on experience applying AI in venture capital, refine their ability to evaluate AI systems using real-world investment frameworks, and contribute to advancing how AI supports high-stakes financial reasoning, all while working remotely with flexible scheduling.