Venture Capital (AI Residency) (US)

📋 Description

• • This Venture Capital AI Residency role at Aptura Inc. offers senior research analysts and portfolio managers the opportunity to bridge institutional investment expertise with frontier AI systems, working to improve how AI models reason and make 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 translating VC evaluation criteria into AI challenges, and construct expert benchmarks using real-world investment memos and market analyses.
• • 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.
• • The resident will gain hands-on experience applying AI in venture capital, deepen their understanding of AI reasoning in financial contexts, contribute to benchmarking AI systems against expert human judgment, and build practical skills in prompt design and model evaluation relevant to the future of AI-augmented investing.