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About the Role

C10 Labs is seeking experienced energy leaders to serve as mentors for AI Nexus NYC. Mentors will support founders building AI-enabled products across various energy sectors, helping them navigate complex environments and identify paths to success.

Responsibilities

• Advise founders on product strategy, commercialization, business models, and market positioning.
• Help startups identify high-value use cases and prioritize customer problems.
• Provide feedback on product-market fit, pricing, implementation, and go-to-market strategy.
• Help founders understand the operational, financial, and technical requirements of energy-sector customers.
• Share lessons learned from building, operating, purchasing, financing, or scaling energy technologies and companies.
• Help founders identify and engage utilities, power producers, energy developers, industrial customers, technology providers, and infrastructure operators.
• Introduce companies to potential customers, pilot partners, investors, corporate partners, and technical experts.
• Advise founders on navigating enterprise procurement, security reviews, technical validation, and long sales cycles.
• Help companies design pilots with clear objectives, measurable outcomes, and credible pathways to commercial deployment.
• Support founders in translating technical capabilities into business and operational value for energy customers.
• Provide insight into the structure, economics, and decision-making processes of energy markets.
• Help startups understand industry regulations, standards, safety requirements, and operational constraints.
• Advise founders on interoperability with existing energy systems, infrastructure, data environments, and operational technologies.
• Help companies evaluate the risks and opportunities associated with deploying AI in mission-critical environments.
• Provide guidance on reliability, cybersecurity, data quality, implementation, and customer trust.
• Help founders distinguish between an interesting technology and a commercially scalable energy solution.
• Advise founders on fundraising strategy, investor positioning, and financing requirements.
• Review pitch materials and help companies communicate their market opportunity, technical differentiation, customer value, and traction.
• Introduce startups to relevant venture investors, infrastructure investors, corporate venture groups, strategic partners, project-finance resources, or non-dilutive funding opportunities.
• Help founders understand the milestones required to attract institutional or strategic capital.
• Support companies preparing for investor meetings, technical diligence, partnership discussions, and follow-on financing.
• Participate in mentor office hours, workshops, panels, founder meetings, and ecosystem events.
• Collaborate with C10 Labs team members, investors, operators, and other mentors.
• Contribute industry insight that strengthens AI Nexus NYC programming.
• Participate in Demo Day, pitch preparation, or investor-readiness activities.

Requirements

• Significant experience within energy, utilities, infrastructure, industrial technology, investing, or a related market.
• Experience building, operating, financing, advising, purchasing, or deploying energy technology.
• Strong understanding of energy customers, commercial models, market structures, and implementation requirements.
• Familiarity with early-stage companies, venture-backed startups, innovation programs, or emerging technologies.
• Interest in artificial intelligence and its application across energy systems and infrastructure.
• Ability to give founders practical, direct, and constructive advice.
• A strong professional network and willingness to facilitate relevant introductions.
• Excellent communication, judgment, and relationship-building skills.
• A genuine interest in helping founders create commercially successful and operationally credible companies.
• Understand the complexity and responsibility involved in operating within energy markets.
• Enjoy helping founders translate technical innovation into customer and commercial value.
• Comfortable challenging assumptions and identifying operational or market risks.
• Provide practical advice grounded in real industry experience.
• Curious about how AI can improve reliability, efficiency, decision-making, and asset performance.
• Want to help startups build solutions that energy companies can trust, adopt, and scale.
• Submit résumé or professional profile and a short description of areas of expertise.

Skills

• Product strategy
• Commercialization
• Business models
• Market positioning
• Product-market fit
• Pricing
• Implementation
• Go-to-market strategy
• Customer engagement
• Pilot design
• Energy markets
• Industry regulations
• AI applications
• Fundraising strategy
• Investor positioning
• Pitch materials
• Venture capital
• Strategic partnerships
• Communication
• Judgment
• Relationship-building

Location

• New York City
• New York, NY

Work Type

• Part Time
• Flexible
• Mentor Engagement

Experience Level

• Experienced founders
• Executives
• Investors
• Operators
• Engineers
• Subject-matter experts
• Energy leaders

Benefits

• Opportunity to work with ambitious founders applying AI to critical energy, infrastructure, and industrial challenges.
• Opportunity to share experience, expand network, and help startups develop stronger products, reach customers, establish partnerships, and become better positioned for investment.
• Join a growing community helping shape the future of AI entrepreneurship in New York.

About the Company

• C10 Labs is an AI-native venture fund and venture platform that partners with exceptional founders to build and scale category-defining AI companies.
• Through AI Nexus NYC, C10 Labs connects early-stage companies with experienced investors, operators, researchers, corporate leaders, and industry experts who can help accelerate product development, customer adoption, strategic partnerships, and fundraising.