Scout Venture Partnership

Location: Bay Area, CA (Palo Alto / San Francisco) - onsite or hybrid

Type: Full-time

Deep Cubation is a Web3 venture studio that has incubated and invested in category-defining crypto ventures since 2014, combining first-principles strategy with creative system design to build enduring, tokenized ecosystems. Our portfolio spans Web3 infrastructure, consumer, and fintech projects,built and operated in-house rather than allocated to from the outside.

Our founding team brings together operators and investors from Qilin Investment Management, Cohen Capital Markets, Invesco, and Morgan Stanley Private Equity Asia - with a shared thesis that a significant share of the next decade s value creation will happen on-chain, led by household brands and institutions moving into blockchain and tokenization. We re now building out the function that will bring that thesis directly to Silicon Valley s investor community.

The Head of Capital Formation will lead fundraising efforts for Deep Cubation s portfolio companies, representing them directly to the Silicon Valley venture ecosystem. This is a company-side, operator-facing role: you are the one building the investor pipeline, running point on diligence, and negotiating term sheets on our companies behalf - not advising from the outside, and not allocating capital into a portfolio of your own.

You will work closely with our founding team to translate company strategy and traction into an investor-ready narrative, and carry that narrative through to a closed round.

• Own the end-to-end capital raise process for Deep Cubation portfolio companies - targeting, outreach, investor meetings, due diligence response, and term sheet negotiation
• Build and prioritize a pipeline of prospective early-stage investors, with an emphasis on Silicon Valley VC funds, family offices, and strategic/corporate investors
• Lead front-end negotiation through to signed term sheets

• Build and maintain a network of warm relationships across the Silicon Valley investor and startup ecosystem
• Represent portfolio companies at relevant investor events, conferences, and founder circles
• Develop introduction pipelines connecting portfolio companies to relevant investors, corporate partners, and strategic accounts

• Partner with leadership to shape fundraising narrative, positioning, and materials for each portfolio company
• Track market intelligence on comparable raises, valuation benchmarks, and investor sentiment to inform round strategy

We expect the strongest candidates to come from a corporate venture, strategic investment, or venture partnership background at a major global fund or corporate VC arm - someone who has spent years building investor and CXO relationships in Silicon Valley, sourcing and evaluating deals, and connecting portfolio companies to capital and enterprise partners across a cross-border network (US, Asia, and beyond).

The transition we re looking for is straightforward: someone who has spent their career on the relationship-building and network side of venture - and is now ready to point that same network and skill set at raising capital for a single company, rather than evaluating capital allocation across many.

This background matters because it means the person already has:

• A live, credible network of Silicon Valley investors and corporate partners - not one they need to build from scratch
• Experience translating a company s traction and strategy into an investment thesis a sophisticated investor will act on
• A track record of closing warm introductions into real outcomes (capital, partnerships, or revenue)

• Established, active network across the Silicon Valley early-stage venture ecosystem
• Based in or immediately able to relocate to the Bay Area
• Track record of building investor or partner introduction pipelines that convert into closed outcomes
• Comfortable owning a mandate independently, with direct exposure to the founding team

You ll join a founding team with direct experience seeding and scaling category-defining crypto ventures (including early involvement in Vechain), running billion-dollar M&A and capital markets processes, and institutionalizing digital assets for traditional finance. This is an opportunity to own a capital formation function from the ground up - building the process, the network, and the track record alongside a team that has already done it once.