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C10 Labs

Venture studio funding AI-first startups

Mentor - Energy

Strategy & Management ConsultingUpdated on Nov 13
Part-timeNew York, NY, USANo salary listed

About the Job

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 when appropriate.
  • A genuine interest in helping founders create commercially successful and operationally credible companies.
  • Experience in an energy or ClimateTech founder, utility executive, power generation leader, engineering or operations executive, product or technology leader, energy investor, corporate venture or innovation leader, project finance professional, energy markets or trading executive, regulatory or policy expert, infrastructure investor, business development or strategic partnerships leader, industrial technology executive, researcher, scientist, academic leader, or corporate customer or procurement executive role is relevant.
  • Understanding of energy-market operations and their complexity and responsibility.
  • Interest in helping founders translate technical innovation into customer and commercial value.
  • Comfort challenging assumptions and identifying operational or market risks.
  • Practical advice grounded in real industry experience.
  • Curiosity about applying AI to improve reliability, efficiency, decision-making, and asset performance.
  • Interest in helping startups build solutions energy companies can trust, adopt, and scale.

Responsibilities

  • Advise founders on product strategy, commercialization, business models, and market positioning.
  • Help startups identify high-value use cases and prioritize customer problems worth solving.
  • Provide practical 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 when appropriate.
  • 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 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 when appropriate.
  • 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 when appropriate.
  • Participate in founder mentoring sessions, office hours, workshops or panel discussions, customer, partner or investor introductions, product and commercialization feedback, pitch and fundraising preparation, Demo Day participation, and periodic program and portfolio-company support as coordinated based on availability, expertise, and participating companies' needs.

Desired Qualifications

  • Excellent communication, judgment, and relationship-building skills.

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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