Website Capria Ventures
Investing in tech founders with limitless aspirations
About Capria Ventures: https://capria.vc/
Capria Ventures is a Global South specialist venture capital firm investing in applied Generative AI, connecting founders into a uniquely collaborative network. We believe entrepreneurs are the ultimate agents of positive, transformational change across every aspect of our society and economy. With a focus on Generative AI, we are looking to invest in startups at the forefront of innovation, primed to disrupt traditional sectors, forge new industries, and propel economic growth in the Global South.
Capria Ventures is gearing up to launch its third flagship early-stage fund. This fund will focus on investing in Jobtech, SaaS, Fintech and Climate – sectors that are not only exciting and important but also rapidly growing within India’s startup ecosystem. We’re focused on startups leveraging applied GenAI to build bigger, next-generation businesses rapidly. We’re looking for a rockstar Senior Analyst to join our team in Bangalore.
– Are you passionate about networking with entrepreneurs, shaping their success stories and helping fuel their growth?
– Can you identify opportunities early?
– Can you source and facilitate transformative business development opportunities, creating value for portfolio companies?
If you have what it takes to be self-motivated and proactive in a laser-focused team, we want to meet you.
Key Responsibilities:
Deal Sourcing: Find the best entrepreneurs in early-stage ventures, using technology and business innovation to solve big problems for India
– Strong understanding of the investor and entrepreneur ecosystem in India.
– Create and continuously develop investment theses, source deals, and build a strong pipeline across Capria’s key investment sectors.
– Become an expert in Capria’s key sectors of interest through extensive research, deep domain and ecosystem relationships.
– Demonstrate thought leadership through articles and blog posts.
– Build new and maintain relationships across various relevant stakeholder groups in the Indian startup ecosystem (entrepreneurs, downstream investors, upstream accelerators/incubators/angels, advisors, and sector experts).
Due Diligence: Understand, evaluate and champion opportunities for investment internally.
– Own and drive investment diligence: market research, speaking with industry experts/customers/potential partners/team, comprehensive financial modeling, building comparative theses across sectors/geographies, etc.
– Build conviction, lead evaluation, drive negotiations and help close exciting new investments.
– Prepare necessary documents, articulate and present investments in a compelling manner to the investment committee to help drive the investment decision.
– Understand deal structures and terms clearly. Lead term sheet negotiations with companies.
– Work with our investment team from across the Global South to learn, leverage, and implement best practices.
Portfolio Management: Work with the Partners and be involved in strategy, operations, and governance. Work closely with and add value to entrepreneurs.
– Manage relationships with our portfolio companies.
– Closely monitor the progress of portfolio companies and ensure superior performance against benchmarks and overall great business execution.
– Work closely with the portfolio companies and help them with business development, funding, planning, hiring, operations improvement, expansion, etc.
– Follow up with portfolio companies on a monthly/quarterly basis for MIS reports, dashboards, financial statements, cash positions, impact data, etc.
– Leadership: Be a part of the team defining the firm’s long-term strategy, build thought leadership and strengthen the firm’s brand recall.
– Exhibit a strong sense of ownership and drive, and motivate others to build something bigger and hugely impactful.
– Lead, mentor and develop a team of analysts and fellows.
Qualifications:
– Bachelor’s Degree; MBA or similar degree preferred.
– 5+ years of experience in venture capital, investment banking, startups, corporate innovation, and/or at a top-tier management consulting firm.
– Strong knowledge of India and the startup ecosystem.
– Excellent business acumen and strong financial analysis abilities.
– Ability to think creatively about business problems and opportunities.
– Excellent communication skills.
– Self-starter, comfortable with ambiguity, always curious to learn, has a great eye for detail, is highly quality-conscious and takes complete ownership of projects and work product.
To apply for this job please visit capria.vc.