Venture Capital Job – Investment Associate – The Radical Fund

We are seeking an Investment Associate in Jakarta, Indonesia with a passion for evangelizing an inclusive climate transition for Indonesia, building a community of climate entrepreneurs and experts, and investing in, partnering with and supporting founders on their entrepreneurial journeys.

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Responsibilities:

• Investment Ecosystem Activation:strengthening our local network in Indonesia – building a robust and inclusive community of founders, angels, VCs, universities, corporates, and other partners, especially those in the climateTech and sustainability spaces in Indonesia. Represent The Radical Fund at industry events and conferences. Mapping and staying abreast of new developments in the ecosystem relevant to Radical (e.g. other innovation players; VCs, university).
• Thesis Development: Stay up to date on the latest trends and developments in the climate tech space, developing insights and thematic notes on key areas of Radical’s mandate to share with the rest of the team through written reports or presentations.
• Deal Sourcing: Identify, generate a pipeline of deals, and evaluate potential investment opportunities in early-stage ventures, technology and founding teams with a climate impact.
• Due Diligence: Conduct technical, market, competitive, and product due diligence on prospective investments, including financial projections and modeling.
• Deal Closing: Support term sheet and deal negotiation with the founders.
• Portfolio Management:Work directly with founders to support them with defining their fundraising strategy, formulating their story, assisting with the creation/review of investment materials and supporting them to raise their next round of funding: defining the founders’ fundraising story/strategy, co-building investor materials (pitch deck, financial model, dataroom), building a pipeline of investors (reviewing their materials and negotiating terms), and assisting with the negotiation of term sheets (helping them understand cap-table dynamics and all things equity-related).

Your Professional Experience & Personal Attributes

• Academic: Bachelors’ degree in engineering, science, finance, accounting, economics, or related field.
• Experience: 3 – 5 yrs of experience in a startup or venture capital environment preferred. However, if you are from another industry, please list the relevant transferable skills that will enable you to be successful in this role.
• Geographic expertise: Deep knowledge of Indonesia startup ecosystem, as well as wider Southeast Asia region
• Soft skills: Excellent analytical, strategic thinking, and communication skills to articulate your investment ideas. Highly organized individual, capable of managing parallel work streams while maintaining an effective workflow and communication systems. Outstanding people skills, humility, hustle, and resilience.
• Personal capital: Strong network among founders and entrepreneurs in Indonesia and a reasonable understanding of the climate tech landscape.
• Language: Fluency in English and Bahasa Indonesia.

What We Offer:

• The opportunity to make a meaningful impact in building an ecosystem of ventures delivering solutions to address climate change.
• A dynamic and inclusive work environment.
• Competitive compensation and benefits.
• Professional development opportunities including access to industry events and training programs.
• Unique opportunity as an early employee to set up an Indonesia office and grow with the fund.

About The Radical Fund

The Radical Fund is an early-stage venture capital fund enabling an inclusive climate transition for a resilient Southeast Asia. The Fund invests into adaptation and mitigation solutions that combat the causes as well as the impacts of climate change. With a focus on Pre-Seed, Seed, and Pre-Series A ventures that are in the region, the Radical Fund is delivering scaled commercial and climate impact outcomes. Our Vision is to transform Southeast Asia into the world’s leading climate-focused venture economy. And our Mission is to invest financial and human capital, supporting early stage ventures to deliver scaled climate outcomes.

Our venture team of Investment, Product, Growth, ESG & Climate full-time specialists works hands-on to co-design with our founders to get them to success faster. Our investment value-add is based on our extensive experience in delivering hands-on value to early stage founders across South Asia, Africa, Europe, U.K. and the U.S.

This is our third investment vehicle, following the success in South Asia and Africa, having built and scaled 140+ ventures over the last 10 years, raised over $140 million from investors; and invested over $50million, through a 45+ people team. Our investment portfolio and experience spans U.S., Europe, Africa and South Asia, we have now most recently entered Southeast Asia, with a regional operational hub in Bangkok and Singapore, and presence across Indonesia, Vietnam, Philippines, and Malaysia.

Our Culture

Our goals are audacious, and we want to work with people who share our vision and conviction for pursuing climate mitigation and adaptation at scale through entrepreneurship. We are building a results-oriented, specialised team, with people who thrive on agile and human-centric approaches to venturing.

At The Radical Fund, you will learn faster than you ever have before, being exposed to all aspects of venture capital and venture building. You will work with highly-specialised and diverse talent from across the region, as well as globally, and you will help us build a collaborative, inclusive, and supportive community.

All our team members are leaders, and we do not conform to the standard ‘corporate culture’ of high bureaucracy and hierarchy. We believe that good ideas can come from anywhere, and we love to build our way out of uncertainty. To ensure that The Radical Fund is the region’s best partner for founders contributing to climate change solutions, we look for people who bring experience in working directly with ventures and are hands-on, beyond advising or consulting startups.

Our Values

Radical’s Values guide how we interact with our team, partners, and founders, and what we expect of our leaders to drive forward our vision.

Be Striving for Excellence. Focus on continuous improvement, learning and execution, to deliver exceptional value and results aligned to our vision.

Be Bold and Push Boundaries. Audacious in breaking conventional thinking and pushing boundaries of what it means to be a Climate VC in Southeast Asia.

Be Informed by Data and Insights. Encourage debates while using data and insights to make informed decisions and deliver tailored value.

Be Human-Centric. Building people-focused systems and processes, understanding the needs, behaviours and emotions of our founders, partners and team members.

Be Inclusive and Embrace Diversity. Embracing diverse perspectives, backgrounds and experiences with openness and empathy.

Be the Best Version of Yourself. Lead with passion and pride, while being humble and self-aware of your voice and actions.