Venture Capital Job – AVP, Growth Investments – Blume Ventures

THE ROLE

Blume Ventures is looking for an Associate Vice President to join the Growth Vertical of our Investments Team. This new, high-impact role is designed to scale our support for breakout portfolio companies.

The role will be based out of our Mumbai office with travel as required to Delhi, Bengaluru and other cities as needed.

• ~ 70% of your time will be with the Growth Vertical to add value to the Growth Portfolio

• ~30% of your time would be spent working with Blume’s leadership to support Portfolio on fundraising, fund operations and portfolio performance analysis, related to the growth companies

This role will start as a two-year stint, with a mutual review at the end of the period to discuss longer-term opportunities and growth paths within the firm.

In addition to your salary, you also are eligible for performance-linked bonus pay and budgets for Learning & Development. You will be mentored by senior leaders at Blume and have access to our database of partnerships, networks and contacts.

This role is ideal for someone who thrives at the intersection of venture investing, value creation, and fund strategy. You’ll work closely with some of our most promising companies — those that have crossed Series B and are navigating complex growth trajectories toward IPO, strategic exits, or market leadership.

Why this role stands out:

• First-of-its-kind mandate at Blume, offering a unique ring-side seat to exponential growth stories in Indian tech.

• Deep exposure to fund operations and fundraising strategy, working directly with Blume’s senior partners.

• A rare blend of portfolio value creation, growth advisory, and institutional capital markets insight.

This is a distinctive opportunity for someone who wants to shape outcomes — not just track them — and engage across the full spectrum of venture investing: from growth-stage scaling to fund strategy and exits.

Final designation and scope will be tailored to match the experience and strengths of the selected candidate.

WHO WE ARE LOOKING FOR:

This is not an early-stage investing role. You won’t be sourcing startups or meeting founders at the seed or pre-Series A stage. Instead, you’ll work closely with a select group of growth-stage companies from Blume’s early and recent vintages — businesses that have successfully navigated the 0-to-1 journey and are now scaling from 1 to 100.

We’re looking for individuals who deeply understand the transformative potential of venture capital — not just as capital, but as a catalyst for access, opportunity, innovation, and impact in India. Your mission will be to do whatever it takes to accelerate the growth of our breakout companies.

Growth at this stage is about depth, not breadth — going more in-depth into a few companies to truly move the needle on strategic growth, market insights, business model evolution, and capital strategy.

Ideal candidates bring a research-driven mindset, strong analytical skills, and the ability to distill large amounts of data into actionable insights. If you’ve ever found yourself spotting key market trends early, building crisp investment theses, or advising companies on capital or strategic moves — this role gives you a chance to apply those skills in venture capital, with a sharper founder-focus.

Finally, we seek individuals who are entrepreneurial at heart and can work with a founder-mentality, and not within the constraints of a typical job. This role will require high levels of ownership, initiative and will have the ability to impact our work across the fund and our companies. You’d need to be comfortable rolling up your sleeves and being hands-on with many aspects of the work, and help us figure out the best way to unlock value for our companies. In return, we promise high learning and high responsibility.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

High-impact portfolio Engagement

• Provide high-leverage recommendations to portfolio companies

• Conduct financial and operational due diligence on portfolio companies

• Prepare detailed IC notes, growth memos, and exit models in a timely and structured format.

Deep Portfolio Ownership & Analysis

• Have a detailed understanding of the portfolio companies and the markets in which they operate

• Maintain and update detailed financial and business models for portfolio companies.

• Conduct quarterly reviews and updates for business model and valuations based on MIS and competitive data

• Maintain company buy-side notes, ready for sharing with external stakeholders at short notice

Portfolio Fundraising & Strategic Support

• Collaborate with growth portfolio companies and investment teams to support fundraising efforts toward growth rounds.

• Jointly craft custom fundraising strategies with investment leads and take equal ownership for successful outcomes.

• Create compelling presentation materials and narratives for both internal stakeholders and external investors.

If you’re excited about shaping the future of IPO-ready tech companies in India, this is the role for you.

Over the next decade, India is poised to see at least 200+ tech and new age company IPOs — and it will take more than just capital to get these companies there. It will take deep partnerships, strategic thinking, operational support, and relentless execution. At Blume, we aim to be behind at least 20% of that IPO pipeline, working shoulder-to-shoulder with founders as they scale toward the public markets.

This role offers a front-row seat — and a hands-on role — in building some of India’s next generation of public tech giants.

Apply only IF….

YOU HAVE:

• An inherent love for understanding new business and their levers. Ideally, if this can be supplemented with an ability to build conviction around these businesses and provide them value add.

• 5+ years of experience in a role focused on public market research or growth stage fundraising or business financial advisory

• Storytelling and narrative-creation skills that will help you build Blume Portfolio narratives

• An obsessive eye for detail, with a decent understanding of data visualisation to be able to showcase company growth journeys

• Highly advanced quantitative and qualitative analytical skills, including financial modeling, cap table analysis, and business writing.

• Excellent interpersonal and networking skills with proven ability to develop and maintain effective business relationships

• A good understanding of startup funding and a very high empathy for founders

• A solid grasp of business metrics and ability to crunch data in excel. (A background in finance and software is ideal.) Strong stakeholder management skills to be able to engage with founders, internal stakeholders, and other institutional investors – possibly all on the same day!

• Awareness of the market and a perspective on potential investable market trends; experience identifying and determining opportunities in selected market spaces.

Skills

• Obsessed with creating a tech-first approach to work, and comfortable leveraging new AI tools to automate workflows and spend more time on higher order thinking

• Ability to build strong relationships with founders and the ecosystem

• A deep research mind to go into the details to understand a business model in and out

• A good oral and verbal communicator to decodify complex business models into simple form

• Analytical

• Detail oriented

Values

• High on integrity

• Hard Working

• Long-term vs short term thinker

• Empathy

• Hungry to do more/ prove oneself

Background

• Ideally CA / Engineering + Investment Banking / Public markets (overall experience of 7+ years)

YOU ARE:

• Excited at the opportunity to make impact at scale

• At heart, a catalyst – someone who wants to use all of their skills to help Blume’s startups succeed and grow

• Comfortable with the idea of working in an Apprenticeship model – with lots of mentorship, feedback and guidance but significant individual responsibility and freedom

• An inherent hustler, focusing on whatever it takes to get stuff done

• Obsessed with creating a tech-first approach to work, and comfortable working on different CRMs, platforms and low-code/no-code tools that we use in the course of our work as well as going incredibly deep into independent research to be able to bring the best value to our team

• Looking for the opportunity to work in a fast-growing company that is committed to providing support, growth and professional development as part of everyday work

• Not limited by a job description and designation, and open to the unique opportunity of working across functions at India’s leading early stage VC fund and charting your own learning journey

• Eager to work with some of the best minds in Indian VC and build a career, limited only by your own aspirations

• Highly comfortable with deadlines, and managing multiple projects simultaneously

WHAT IS IT LIKE TO WORK AT BLUME:

While we’re 14 years old this year, in some ways we are still building Blume from the ground up. We rely strongly on a First Principles approach, and that means questioning the way things were done before. VC is first and foremost a relationship-driven business, so we do prioritise a positive interaction with everyone we meet.

We have a decentralised leadership that is committed to helping Blume grow in the right way. This may mean sometimes that you get five different answers to one question – the right person will see this as an opportunity for independent problem-solving and figure out their next steps. Our team has high ownership and high expectations – we fully understand that we may not always be able to control the outcomes of certain situations, and therefore review success also in terms of our inputs – did we do everything possible we could from our side to make something happen?

This approach isn’t for everyone, especially if you’ve been used to clearer frameworks, targets, single-threaded reporting, and working with relatively fewer inputs. But for someone who understands the end goal, the process and journey along the way is a wonderfully positive challenge that does push you to grow personally and professionally.

We’re looking for owners and entrepreneurs first, not job-seekers. The work you do will have peaks and troughs, and you’ll need to find the motivation to pull through these. We’re always all-hands-on-deck, and love folks who can figure out answers, test, iterate, and experiment fast enough, and who understand that all feedback is ultimately good and helpful feedback.