Associate

About the Role

Evaluate companies, technologies, investors, advisors and strategic partners—then turn complex evidence into actionable private-capital intelligence.

Key Responsibilities

• Identify and evaluate private companies, funds and strategic investment opportunities.
• Analyze teams, technology, markets, business models, competition, financing needs and key risks.
• Research investors, executives, physicians, scientists, engineers, founders and operators relevant to each opportunity.
• Prepare evidence-based recommendations explaining who to engage, why the fit matters and why now.
• Create company profiles, market maps, investment memoranda and strategic-engagement plans.
• Help founders connect with customers, partners, talent, advisors, board members and strategic capital.
• Work with Graphora's product, data and AI teams to improve scoring, matching and explainable intelligence.

Requirements & Tech Stack

• Ability to connect technical evidence with commercial and investment implications.
• Strong research, analytical, financial-modeling and presentation skills.
• Clear, concise communication with founders, investors, physicians, executives, scientists and engineers.

Qualifications

• Preferred background: Engineering, bioengineering, biomedical engineering, computer science, AI, data science or another quantitative discipline.
• Experience evaluating companies, technologies, products, scientific research or investment opportunities.
• Knowledge of New York's venture capital, healthcare, engineering, technology and academic ecosystem.
• Support U.S. and international private-market opportunities.

Preferred Skills (Depth matters more than the number selected):

• Healthcare and medicine
• Venture capital and private equity
• Healthcare startups and entrepreneurship
• Health systems and healthcare operations
• Digital health and artificial intelligence
• Biotechnology
• Medical devices
• Life sciences

What will distinguish you:

• Deep applied expertise in at least one specialty area.
• Something meaningful you built, launched, researched, commercialized, operated or evaluated.
• Direct venture capital, private equity, diligence, investment research or startup experience.
• Evidence of independent thinking through memos, models, code, research, publications, products or entrepreneurial work.
• A specific understanding of Graphora and how AI and relationship intelligence can improve private-capital outcomes.