Venture Scout

Openkrill; United States; Remote; USD 55,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Fully remote role

Direct access to founders and investor

Commission-based pay

Early-career growth

Job summary

Pairs, a global network of family offices, institutional investors, VCs and angels, seeks a Venture Scout in the United States. You will source founders raising rounds, learn what makes them investment-worthy, and bring the strongest to Pairs for diligence and potential collaboration.

You will write effective outreach messages, convert replies to calls, and build a personal network of founders and investors. This early-career role rewards drive, judgment, and discretion.

Qualifications

• Active network of founders you can bring to the table.
• Ability to write short, specific messages that elicit replies.
• Maintain high pace without sacrificing quality and follow a process.
• Understand basics of a funding round: stage, cheque size, SAFE vs priced, and investor decision.
• Discretion as a core trait; do not disclose investor or company names in applications.
• Daily use of AI tools with clear judgment on where they add value.

Responsibilities

• Sourcing company opportunities (Founders raising Series A or later) and bringing suitable ones to Pairs with context.
• Lead first conversations; craft messages that generate replies and set up calls.
• Conduct investor research on active investors, rounds, and cheque sizes.
• Grow and maintain a personal network of founders and investors for ongoing opportunities.

Skills

Networking

Cold outreach

Investor relations

Communication

Discretion

Job description

We are hiring a Venture Scout to find companies worth our diligence, and to open relationships with investors who back private companies directly.

Pairs is a global network of family offices, institutional investors, VCs and angels. We screen deal flow very tightly, and the opportunities that clear our diligence go out to the network. We invest alongside them too.

THE ROLEThis role works across both sides of Pairs. It is for people who bring in deals on their own. You bring founders from your own network who are raising, learn what makes their companies worth an investor's time, and bring the strongest to Pairs.

Most of the work is first contact done well. You write to founders and investors in a way that earns a reply, turn those replies into calls, and bring the right ones into the network.

We are not raising a fund. Our investors invest directly in companies, so the work is about direct investors, not fund LPs.

Our platform handles the pipeline, research and follow-up. Your time goes to the conversations, and to learning which companies and investors are ready.

You will work directly with the two co-founders and our investor team, on a process that already works. The organisation is flat, so you will see first-hand how we screen opportunities, what we decline and why.

This is an early-career role. Drive and judgement matter more to us than years in a seat.

WHAT YOU WILL OWN

• Company sourcing. Founders raising Series A and later, found early and brought to Pairs with the context our team needs.
• First conversations. Messages that read like a person wrote them, and replies turned into calls.
• Investor research. Who is investing right now, in what, at what stage and cheque size.
• Your growing network. Every founder and investor you open, kept current and qualified. The network you build here is yours.

YOU ARE A FIT IF YOU

• Already have an active network of founders you can bring to the table, built through an accelerator, a VC role, a startup community or your own work.
• Can write a short, specific message to a stranger that gets a reply.
• Keep your pace high without letting quality slip, and follow a process without needing a reminder.
• Understand the basics of a round: stage, cheque size, SAFE versus priced, and why an investor passes.
• Treat discretion as second nature. Please do not include any investor or company names in your application.
• Use AI tools daily, with clear judgement about where they improve your work and where they would compromise its quality.

WHAT WE OFFER

• A fully remote, asynchronous role
• Direct access to the co-founders and our investor team
• Close collaboration with our internal team
• Live mandates from your first week, and access to the opportunities that clear our diligence
• Insight into our internal processes, including how we screen deal flow
• Room to grow into a Venture Partner role as your network grows
• A base salary plus commission