Venture Associate at R-LABS in downtown Toronto helps validate companies using customer research, commercial analysis, and AI tools onsite. This permanent, full-time role connects industry problems with scalable ventures.
Reporting to the Managing Director, Ventures, you will operate across housing, real estate finance, asset operations, infrastructure, and adjacent verticals. You will work with Entrepreneurs-in-Residence, co-founders, and partner operators to move ideas from discovery through formation. Athena, R-LABS’ proprietary AI platform, supports research, synthesis, and validation.
Key Responsibilities: Lead customer discovery and venture validation activities
Test assumptions and recommend advancing, pivoting, or pausing ideas
Develop business models, financial models, and commercialization strategies




Coordinate resources and prepare investor and customer materials
Build networks through outreach, expert calls, and referrals
Requirements: Venture-building, founder, or early-stage operating experience
Daily experience using LLMs and agentic workflows
Market research, customer validation, and business modeling experience
Ability to reason about unit economics and development pro-formas
Explicit communication, analytical thinking, and independent ownership
Apply venture-building, commercial strategy, customer validation, and AI fluency as a Venture Associate at R-LABS.

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📌 Venture Associate Real Estate AI (Ontario)
🏢 R-LABS Canada
📍 Ontario