About Time Seventeen
We give risk a price. We create state prices for tail events.
The world contains a large class of risks that determine where capital flows yet have no price today. Global supply chains are being reconfigured, while the geopolitical discount rates that inform consequential decisions remain difficult to quantify. Time Seventeen is building tradable synthetic indices and term structures for these risks.
Time Seventeen is infrastructure for geopolitical risk and catastrophe risk. We give risk a price. We create state prices for tail events. Our ambition is to turn fragmented judgments about individual events into continuous risk prices, then bring those prices into institutional valuation, trading, and risk-transfer workflows.
Our work connects event definitions, probabilistic forecasting, market data, index methodology, and execution infrastructure. We explore how prediction markets, actuarial models, insurance and reinsurance structures, and blockchain-based DeFi can contribute to a common language for uncertain outcomes. The challenge is to make risk legible across different horizons, exposures, and market participants, while keeping assumptions and limitations explicit.
Building this infrastructure requires more than a compelling forecast. Data must be traceable, events must have defensible resolution rules, methodologies must survive scrutiny, and products must account for liquidity, basis risk, operational resilience, and applicable legal constraints. We want institutions to be able to understand a risk price, challenge its construction, and assess how it relates to the exposure they actually hold.
We are building a focused team across research, engineering, markets, and risk. We value people who can move between deep specialist work and the practical decisions needed to build a company: identifying the important question, testing an approach, communicating the evidence, and carrying the result into a usable system.
About the role
Lead capital formation for Time Seventeen and build the investor relationships needed to develop infrastructure for geopolitical and catastrophe risk.
You will own the fundraising process from investor mapping and positioning through diligence, negotiation, and close. The central challenge is to communicate a new market category with precision: how continuous event-risk prices can enter institutional valuation, trading, and risk-transfer workflows, and what the company needs to prove as it builds that infrastructure.
Working directly with the founders, you will connect the company strategy to financing milestones and a credible capital plan. You will coordinate research, commercial, financial, and legal inputs into investor materials, while building durable relationships with investors who understand market infrastructure, insurance, fintech, and digital assets.
What you'll do
- Build and manage an investor pipeline across venture capital, strategic investors, family offices, and relevant institutional partners.
- Develop fundraising materials that explain the business model, market opportunity, product roadmap, competitive context, and key assumptions.
- Translate operating plans into capital requirements, milestones, runway scenarios, and financing options with leadership.
- Coordinate investor outreach, meetings, follow-ups, diligence requests, and the data room with clear ownership and accurate information.
- Support term-sheet evaluation and negotiations in partnership with the founders and qualified legal advisers.
- Maintain long-term investor relationships and prepare consistent updates on progress, risks, and use of capital.
What we're looking for
- Experience leading or materially contributing to startup fundraising, investment banking, venture investing, or capital formation.
- Ability to explain technical and financial business models through clear writing, quantitative analysis, and senior-level conversations.
- Strong judgment about investor fit, financing tradeoffs, and the difference between evidence and an ambitious forecast.
- Experience coordinating diligence and managing a complex process with multiple stakeholders.
- Relevant relationships in fintech, market infrastructure, insurance, or digital assets are valuable.
- Comfort taking ownership in an early-stage environment and working across San Francisco and Hong Kong time zones.
What success looks like
- Build a qualified investor pipeline with a clear engagement strategy and reliable follow-through.
- Create a coherent investment narrative and diligence materials that withstand detailed scrutiny.
- Help leadership make informed financing decisions aligned with the operating plan.
Location & working arrangement
This role is associated with San Francisco and supports remote work. Please share your location, time zone, availability, and ability to coordinate with colleagues in San Francisco and Hong Kong.
How to apply
Share your background and a concrete example of building, leading, or delivering relevant work. Describe your ownership, the key decisions, and the results. Founder candidates should also explain which part of Time Seventeen they want to build and why.
How we work
Time Seventeen is a focused, high-ownership team. We value clear thinking, direct communication, careful execution, and people who carry important work through to a result. We expect colleagues to surface inconvenient evidence, ask precise questions, and make the limits of their work explicit. Strong specialist judgment matters, as does the willingness to understand how your work affects research, markets, engineering, and risk. We prefer useful documentation and clear decisions to unnecessary process.