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

Clear communication, analytical thinking, and independent ownership

Apply venture-building, commercial strategy, customer validation, and AI fluency as a Venture Associate at R-LABS.

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