--- title: 'CEO & Co-Founder, Cure at Montauk Capital' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/ceo-co-founder-cure-montauk-capital-remote-njq625t04ta6' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-10-28' --- # CEO & Co-Founder, Cure at Montauk Capital - **Company:** Montauk Capital - **Location:** Remote - **Employment:** full-time - **Work type:** remote - **Posted:** 2026-09-22 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-28 - **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/montauk-capital/de6aec12-d378-4b39-b9d3-623b5508fd3c ## Job description CEO & Co-Founder, Cure Remote, US Based ## About Montauk Capital Montauk Capital builds and backs companies at the forefront of the Electron Economy, the generational shift towards electrified, intelligent technologies, reshaping industries and driving unprecedented demand for energy. We shape the category leaders of tomorrow while delivering outsized returns. Our team combines deep investing acumen with decades of operating experience to give founders the strategic clarity and hands-on support that accelerates the building of enduring companies of consequence. ## About Cure Cure is building the AI-native recovery platform for regulated industries. Its intelligent agents engage consumers in natural, personalized conversations, understand the full context of each account, and take the right action to move customers toward resolution. Unlike legacy collections software or scripted chatbots, Cure combines conversational AI, behavioral economics, decision science, compliance frameworks and real-time consumer signals in a system that learns from every interaction. The platform will orchestrate outreach, negotiation, settlement, and financial-wellness pathways across channels, identifying the right engagement and settlement plan for each individual, improving recovery economics while delivering a more empathetic consumer experience. ## About the CEO & Co-Founder Role We are seeking a commercially exceptional CEO and co-founder to build the category-defining AI platform for recovery. This leader will take Cure from company formation through initial product-market validation and seed financing: defining the market wedge, securing lighthouse design partners, shaping the product with customers, recruiting the founding team, and establishing the foundations for rapid enterprise adoption across regulated industries. This is a hands-on company-building role for a leader who sees recovery not as a collections workflow, but as a high-stakes customer-engagement problem ready to be rebuilt around intelligent agents. The right candidate will combine enterprise AI ambition, consumer-finance intuition, product judgment, and commercial credibility with the speed and conviction to create a new category. ## What You’ll Do - Define the category and market wedge. Position Cure as the AI-native engagement and recovery platform for regulated industries, identify the highest-value initial use cases, and translate the larger vision into a focused market-entry strategy. - Win lighthouse customers. Secure design partnerships with leading lenders, fintech companies, and other regulated enterprises; work directly with executives and operators to turn urgent recovery problems into deployments that can expand. - Build an AI-native product with customers. Partner with technical and product leaders to create agents that can understand context, reason over account data and policy, personalize conversations, take action across systems, and improve through feedback and evaluation. - Create a compounding outcomes engine. Establish the data, experimentation, evaluation, and operating loops that improve recovery rates, efficiency, compliance, and consumer experience with every deployment. - Build the company and category. Recruit the founding team, create a culture of speed and product excellence, and develop a narrative that attracts customers, talent, partners, and investors to Cure's vision. - Lead the seed financing. Define the product, commercial, and technical milestones that demonstrate category leadership and build the investor process required to fund Cure's next phase, with support from Montauk Capital. ## What You’ll Bring - Zero-to-one company-building leadership. Demonstrated success as a founder, GM, product leader, or early-stage operator creating a new product, market, or business before the playbook existed. - Enterprise AI or customer-engagement perspective. Experience building or commercializing AI-native enterprise software, conversational AI, customer experience platforms, decisioning systems, or another product that changed how large organizations operate. - Enterprise commercial credibility. The ability to engage senior executives, uncover high-value workflows, earn trust in complex organizations, and convert design partnerships into durable, expanding customer relationships. - AI-native product judgment. Fluency in how agents, models, data, integrations, evaluation, guardrails, and human oversight combine to produce reliable outcomes in consequential workflows; you do not need to be the CTO. - Consumer-finance and regulatory judgment. Strong instincts for consumer psychology, lending or payments economics, auditability, explainability, consumer protection, and trust. Direct collections-industry experience is not required. - Founder-level agency and magnetism. Exceptional judgment, speed, resilience, storytelling ability, and product curiosity, with the capacity to attract outstanding people and inspire them to build an ambitious company from zero. We are particularly interested in leaders who can bring the ambition, product velocity, and enterprise orientation of the best AI-native software companies into a recovery market overdue for reinvention. ## Why Join Us - Create the AI-native category leader in recovery. Build the platform that replaces rigid workflows and fragmented point solutions with intelligent agents capable of owning outcomes across the recovery journey. - Apply AI to a consequential customer interaction. Use context, reasoning, personalization, and action to transform one of the most sensitive and economically important moments in the customer lifecycle. - Build a platform whose advantage compounds. Turn every conversation and outcome into a smarter system that improves economics for regulated enterprises and creates better paths to resolution for consumers, with Montauk Capital's capital, network, and company-building support. ## About Montauk Capital ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Montauk Capital is an investment platform combining a venture fund and venture studio that builds and backs technology companies powering the Electron Economy — the shift to electrified, intelligent infrastructure. - **Entity Type**: Private (venture capital / venture studio; $8.5M in funding) - **Headquarters**: New York City, New York, United States - **Founded**: 2023 - **Founders**: Philip Krim (Co-Founder & CEO), Evan Caron (Co-Founder & CIO), Sharo Atmeh (Co-Founder & COO) ## Core Business - **Primary industries**: Venture capital, venture studio, energy infrastructure, artificial intelligence, advanced computing, smart transportation, climate technology. - **Target customers**: B2B – primarily early-stage founders building in energy, infrastructure, and industrial AI; portfolio companies serve enterprise and industrial clients. - **Mission / purpose**: To build and back “companies of consequence” that power the Electron Economy — the electrified, intelligent systems transforming global industries. ## Products & Services - **Venture Fund**: Invests in scalable Series A and early‑Series B software and AI‑focused businesses aligned with the Electron Economy. - **Venture Studio**: Launches new companies from scratch in high‑conviction white spaces (e.g., stealth companies in agentic CAD, edge AI, distributed water infrastructure). - **Portfolio companies** (examples): - **OneGC** – legal services for the energy transition. - **Mantis Space** – first space‑based power distribution network. - **Adaptive** – commercial/professional insurance enabled by AI. - **Raad** – drone‑based geospatial intelligence for environmental services. - **GridFree AI** – AI‑powered ERP for large industrials and data centers. ## Market Standing - **Valuation / Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed (private firm). - **Key Financial Metric**: Total funding of **$8.5M** (venture round led by Amplo in March 2024). - **Notable Investors / Partners**: Amplo (lead investor). Founders bring deep ties from Riverstone Private Equity, Alyeska Investment Group, and other energy/infrastructure institutions. - **Growth Signals**: - Employees grew **+6.2% YoY** to 14 people (as of mid‑2025) with **10 active job postings** (+25% quarterly). - Actively seeking new investments and spinning up multiple stealth companies. - Strong annual LinkedIn follower growth **+213.5%** (4,496 followers). ## Competitive Advantages - **Deep domain expertise**: Founders have 20+ years in energy investing, capital markets, and climate tech (Riverstone, Alyeska, ClearTrace, HGP Storage). - **Integrated venture‑studio model**: Combines capital with hands‑on company‑building, reducing time‑to‑market for founders. - **Focus on the Electron Economy**: Captures the generational shift to electrified, intelligent infrastructure — a thesis that spans energy, AI, and industry. - **Strategic partnerships**: Co‑develops with notable names (e.g., Martha Stewart for AI home intelligence) and leverages capital‑markets experience for structuring innovative deals. ## Strategic Focus - **Electron Economy as core thesis**: Investing across the full stack — from energy generation/storage to AI‑enabled industrial software. - **Scaling the venture portfolio**: Targeting Series A and B software and AI companies; meanwhile the studio will continue launching ventures in high‑conviction white spaces. - **Expanding team**: Hiring for critical leadership and technical roles across stealth portfolio companies (e.g., Head of Infrastructure, Head of Inference, Founding Engineers). - **Sustainability & resilience**: Emphasis on energy abundance, adaptability, and resource efficiency. ## Why Work Here - **Culture**: Hands‑on, founder‑focused environment where team members work directly with experienced operators and investors. Described as a “trustworthy springboard” for building durable companies. - **Remote / hybrid / office**: Offers remote, hybrid, and in‑office roles; the HQ is in New York City (66 Hudson Boulevard). - **Notable perks / engineering culture**: Opportunities to become a co‑founder or early executive at a stealth venture backed by deep industry expertise. Strong emphasis on technical depth (AI, infrastructure, energy systems) and ownership. - **Growth trajectory**: Small, growing team (14 employees) with clear expansion plans — allows for outsized impact and career development. ## Sources 1. [montaukcap.com](https://montaukcap.com) 2. [montaukcap.com/about](https://montaukcap.com/about) 3. [linkedin.com/company/montauk-capital](https://www.linkedin.com/company/montauk-capital) 4. [builtin.com/company/montauk-capital](https://builtin.com/company/montauk-capital) 5. 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