C10 Labs

Venture studio funding AI-first startups

Climate & Sustainability Mentor

Strategy & Management ConsultingUpdated on Nov 13

Part-timeNew York, NY, USANo salary listedRemote

About the Job

Requirements

Bring practical operating, investing, technical, or market experience.
Understand climate and sustainability markets and have relevant expertise across areas such as climate technology, corporate sustainability, decarbonization, carbon accounting and management, climate finance, circular economy, sustainability reporting, environmental services, or climate policy and regulation.
Be curious about how artificial intelligence can create solutions across climate and sustainability markets.
Be able to provide candid, thoughtful, and constructive feedback and help founders work through difficult, ambiguous problems.

Responsibilities

Advise founders on product strategy, business models, market positioning, and commercialization.
Help startups identify high-value customer segments and use cases.
Provide feedback on go-to-market strategy, pricing, partnerships, and customer acquisition.
Challenge assumptions and help founders prioritize opportunities with commercial and environmental value.
Share lessons from building, operating, investing in, or scaling companies in climate and sustainability markets.
Help founders understand sustainability and climate-related purchasing decisions in large organizations.
Introduce startups to potential customers, pilot partners, corporate sustainability teams, investors, and industry experts when appropriate.
Advise founders on long enterprise sales cycles and complex stakeholder environments.
Help companies design credible pilots and convert successful engagements into longer-term commercial relationships.
Provide insight into procurement, implementation, and adoption within regulated or operationally complex industries.
Help founders understand industry trends, policies, regulations, reporting requirements, and market dynamics.
Provide feedback on environmental impact claims, sustainability metrics, and customer value propositions.
Support companies addressing regulatory, technical, financial, or commercialization barriers.
Help founders distinguish compelling climate impact from a scalable venture-backed business model.
Advise companies on ways artificial intelligence and data can create durable technical, operational, or commercial advantages.
Help founders refine fundraising strategy and investor positioning.
Review pitch materials and advise on communicating market opportunity, impact, traction, and differentiation.
Introduce founders to relevant climate investors, strategic partners, family offices, corporate venture groups, or grant and non-dilutive funding resources when appropriate.
Help startups understand milestones required to become institutionally investable.
Support founders preparing for investor meetings, strategic partnership discussions, and diligence.
Participate in mentor office hours, workshops, panels, founder meetings, and community events.
Collaborate with other mentors, investors, operators, and C10 Labs team members.
Contribute insights to strengthen AI Nexus NYC programming and founder support.
Participate in Demo Day or investor-readiness activities when appropriate.
Provide founder mentoring sessions, workshops or panel discussions, customer, partner, or investor introductions, pitch and fundraising preparation, Demo Day participation, and periodic program and portfolio-company support as availability and needs dictate.

AI Nexus NYC | C10 Labs
New York, NY | Flexible, Part-Time Mentor Engagement

About C10 Labs

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 brings together founders, investors, operators, researchers, corporate leaders, and industry experts to support the development and commercialization of high-potential AI startups.

We are expanding our mentor network and seeking experienced leaders across climate, sustainability, and environmental innovation who want to help founders solve meaningful industry challenges and build enduring companies.

The Opportunity

C10 Labs is seeking experienced founders, executives, investors, operators, researchers, and subject-matter experts to serve as Climate & Sustainability Mentors for AI Nexus NYC.

Mentors will work directly with early-stage founders developing AI-enabled solutions across climate technology, sustainability, decarbonization, resource efficiency, and environmental resilience.

This is an opportunity to provide practical guidance, challenge assumptions, make meaningful introductions, and help startups navigate complex markets, customer relationships, regulations, financing requirements, and commercialization pathways.

We are especially interested in mentors who can help founders move beyond product development and toward customer adoption, strategic partnerships, measurable impact, and institutional funding.

Founder Mentorship and Company Building

Advise founders on product strategy, business models, market positioning, and commercialization.
Help startups identify their highest-value customer segments and use cases.
Provide practical feedback on go-to-market strategy, pricing, partnerships, and customer acquisition.
Challenge assumptions and help founders prioritize the opportunities that create the greatest commercial and environmental value.
Share lessons learned from building, operating, investing in, or scaling companies within climate and sustainability markets.

Customer and Market Development

Help founders understand how sustainability and climate-related purchasing decisions are made within large organizations.
Introduce startups to potential customers, pilot partners, corporate sustainability teams, investors, and industry experts when appropriate.
Advise founders on navigating long enterprise sales cycles and complex stakeholder environments.
Help companies design credible pilots and convert successful engagements into longer-term commercial relationships.
Provide insight into procurement, implementation, and adoption within regulated or operationally complex industries.

Climate and Sustainability Expertise

Help founders understand evolving industry trends, policies, regulations, reporting requirements, and market dynamics.
Provide feedback on environmental impact claims, sustainability metrics, and customer value propositions.
Support companies working through regulatory, technical, financial, or commercialization barriers.
Help founders distinguish between compelling climate impact and a scalable venture-backed business model.
Advise companies on how AI and data can create durable technical, operational, or commercial advantages.

Fundraising and Strategic Growth

Help founders refine their fundraising strategy and investor positioning.
Review pitch materials and provide feedback on how companies communicate their market opportunity, impact, traction, and differentiation.
Introduce founders to relevant climate investors, strategic partners, family offices, corporate venture groups, or grant and non-dilutive funding resources when appropriate.
Help startups understand the milestones required to become institutionally investable.
Support founders preparing for investor meetings, strategic partnership discussions, and diligence.

AI Nexus NYC Community

Participate in mentor office hours, workshops, panels, founder meetings, and community events.
Collaborate with other mentors, investors, operators, and C10 Labs team members.
Contribute insights that strengthen AI Nexus NYC programming and founder support.
Participate in Demo Day or investor-readiness activities when appropriate.

We welcome mentors with experience across areas such as:

Climate Technology
Corporate Sustainability
Decarbonization
Carbon Accounting and Carbon Management
Carbon Markets
Climate Finance
Circular Economy
Waste Reduction and Resource Recovery
Sustainable Supply Chains
Environmental Data and Analytics
Climate Risk and Resilience
Water and Natural Resource Management
Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems
Green Buildings and Infrastructure
Environmental Services
ESG and Sustainability Reporting
Clean Technology
Nature-Based Solutions
Climate Policy and Regulation

Who You Are

You enjoy helping founders work through difficult and ambiguous problems.
You bring practical operating, investing, technical, or market experience.
You are candid, thoughtful, and constructive in your feedback.
You understand that strong mentorship involves challenging founders, not simply encouraging them.
You are curious about how AI can create new solutions across climate and sustainability markets.
You want to help startups create measurable impact while building scalable and financially sustainable businesses.

Commitment

This is a flexible, part-time mentor engagement. Participation may include:

Founder mentoring sessions
Office hours
Workshops or panel discussions
Customer, partner, or investor introductions
Pitch and fundraising preparation
Demo Day participation
Periodic program and portfolio-company support

Mentor involvement will be coordinated based on availability, expertise, and the needs of participating companies.

About the Company

C10 Labs

Venture studio funding AI-first startups

C10 Labs is a Cambridge-based venture studio fund that builds and supports AI-first startups across healthcare, legal, and medical devices. It offers a unified platform combining AI expertise with hands-on mentorship and operational support, and its products include AI SaaS for FDA denials in the medical device industry, clinical claims revenue-cycle management, and legal research platforms, plus AI-driven tools for early diagnosis and treatment of chronic diseases. It also helps startups deploy scalable AI infrastructure across cloud and on-premises environments. Its goal is to create meaningful AI ventures that boost efficiency, reduce costs, and improve decision-making in its target sectors.

Company size: 51-200
Company stage: Not listed
Total funding: Not listed
Headquarters: Methuen, MA
Founded: 2023

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