Venture Studio Associate

Job Description:

Why Onni Capital Most people who want to work in venture in Vancouver end up as an analyst, three layers from a decision, writing memos on companies someone else sourced. This is the opposite. You will be the person founders deal with. You design the curriculum, choose the mentors, decide who gets into the cohort, and run the room on demo day.

That is a founder facing job with a network that compounds fast. Onni Capital invests its own capital. There is no fund clock and no external investment committee. If a studio company is working, we can keep backing it. If it is not, we can stop without a fund's optics driving the decision. The platform behind you is genuinely unusual for an incubator.

Onni owns the real estate, operates businesses across development, construction, property management, and hospitality, and can put a startup's product in front of real operators in weeks. Studio graduates can become venture investments, and standout talent can move into portfolio companies or into Onni Capital.
How We Work Onni Capital is being designed as a high ownership, low bureaucracy team. We work in small project groups, test ideas quickly, put early products in front of users, and make decisions based on evidence rather than hierarchy. Team members are expected to:
Challenge assumptions and communicate directly Take responsibility for outcomes, not simply produce recommendations Use modern AI tools to work faster and produce better results Share unfinished work early and improve it through feedback Move comfortably between strategic analysis and hands on execution Know when to continue investing in an idea and when to stop Operate effectively without a detailed playbook.

This is not a role for someone who wants months of consensus building, a rigid job description, or a narrowly defined set of responsibilities. It is for someone who learns quickly, takes initiative, enjoys solving ambiguous problems, and wants to help build something from the ground up.
What You Will Do   Design and run the twelve week programme end to end, including the week by week curriculum covering legal setup, engineering, product, marketing, and go to market
Recruit each cohort, including outreach to founders, universities, accelerators, and the local technology community, then run selection
Build and manage the mentor and industry network, including operators from Onni's businesses, external founders, investors, and service providers
Run demo day, including format, guest list, investor attendance, founder preparation, and follow on capital conversations
Negotiate and document studio investments, including equity terms, and coordinate with counsel on the standard instrument
Manage the studio space, cohort logistics, and the day to day operating rhythm of the programme
Track cohort outcomes, including product progress, revenue, follow on funding, and graduate destinations, and report on programme performance
Direct venture investments   Source direct venture opportunities through the studio, Onni's network, funds Onni backs, and the founder community
Screen opportunities and prepare investment recommendations with a clear view on team, market, product, and why Onni specifically should be on the cap table
Run diligence on direct investments, including market work, customer references, technical assessment, and financial review
Support term sheet negotiation and closing, working with counsel
Monitor the venture portfolio, maintain relationships with founders, and identify follow on opportunities
Across the pillar
Build the pipeline between studio graduates, venture investments, portfolio company roles, and Onni Capital itself
Identify where a studio company solves a problem inside Onni's operating businesses and broker that first customer relationship
Represent Onni Capital in the Vancouver founder and investor community, including events, sponsor ships, and partnerships
Document processes, decisions, and operating standards so each cohort runs better than the last
Contribute to internal investment discussions, product reviews, demonstrations, and Onni Capital events
What You Bring   Two to five years in venture capital, an accelerator or venture studio, startup operations, or as a founder. What matters is that you have been close to early stage companies and have seen what makes them work and fail Evidence of having built or run something yourself, whether a company, a product, a programme, a community, or a recurring event with real attendance Genuine…