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Investment Intern

Overview of Sie Ventures

Sie Ventures is a Capital Platform for European Female Founders raising their pre-seed / seed stage capital. The platform was launched to support these exceptional founders in their fundraising journey, by providing better access to investor networks, capital and support.  The goal is to change the status quo - close the funding gap for female founders and dispel unconscious bias from an early stage.  

Sie Ventures has started investing into some of these companies by facilitating Special Purpose Vehicles (SPVs) and bringing our Investor Community into these deals, while raising a fund to be able to back these founders directly.

Work pattern:

Length: 3 months, with option to extend if all parties agree

Weekly hours: Approx. 4-6 hours per week, but flexible 

Location: remote

Working pattern: flexible, but overlap with European office hours is required on a weekly basis to attend online meetings.

Role Description:

Sourcing

  • Proactively source new startups within the Sie Ventures investment thesis that are early stage and would be looking for funding within the next 6 months.

  • Read relevant articles, blog posts and publications to stay on top of latest trends in startups.

  • Attend relevant events (online/offline) where possible to build relationships with founders.

Due diligence

  • Help with due diligence on any companies that go into DD.

    • financial analysis of company,

    • market sizing, 

    • competitor analysis, 

    • team referencing,

    • any other required to make an investment decision.

  • Write up Investment Memos on those companies that go to our investors.

Market mapping research

  • Research European companies at pre-seed / seed stage within each vertical.

  • Research each vertical for incumbents and fast growing companies with significant market share.

  • Help identify market gaps and areas needing new and improved products/services

Weekly calls

  • Where possible, attend first founder calls with another member of the Sie Team to learn how to analyse their businesses.

  • Attend weekly dealflow call to help the Sie Team vet deals in motion.

Preferred Candidate Skills/ Experience:

It goes without saying that the candidate should be deeply connected to our mission and highly motivated to drive change in the ecosystem.  

You will be working in a startup environment reporting directly to the founding team members. As with any early-stage startup environment there is a fair bit of uncertainty and ambiguity in the role.  We encourage and expect you to ask questions wherever you don’t understand a task (we’re here to help), take ownership of your work, embrace the autonomy and propose solutions to problems where you see fit (we value new thinking!). 

Skillset:

  • MBA / MA with Entrepreneurship focus, preferable (will consider BA with business/ entrepreneurship focus and strong credentials)

  • Fluent in English 

  • Second European language, preferable

  • Highly analytical and strong attention to detail 

  • Follows latest technology trends

  • Excellent in Excel, Powerpoint, Word 

  • Able to write long-form memos in English 

  • Able to read/create financial models in Excel 

  • Confident to speak to founders and/or investors if required.

To apply, please send your CV and an example of a company/app/product that you really like and why to nicole@sie.ventures.