About Us
At Distributed Ventures, we understand the confines of risk and the opportunities it provides for innovation within Employer Solutions, Insurtech, and Fintech.
Our unparalleled experience and expertise in the risk ecosystem allow us to connect early-stage companies with the guidance, access, and customers they need to accelerate revenue and rapidly achieve product-market fit.
We back founders with precision capital, partnering with them to manage and mitigate risk, helping them build technologies and solutions that provide stability in an uncertain world. Our recent investments include Armadillo, Ascend, CoverTree, Pillar, Posterity Health and Tuned.
Learn more at Distributed Ventures.
Location: Chicago, IL
About You
- Preferred candidate has 2 years of prior venture capital investing experience, with previous investment banking or consulting experience.
- Proven track record of sourcing, evaluating, and supporting execution of early-stage venture investments.
- Obsession with identifying “next big thing” market opportunities in contexts with imperfect information. Often this takes the form of anti-consensus, high conviction investment thesis creation.
- You are passionate about entrepreneurship and technology. You always find yourself thinking about ideas that are changing the world, and you love supporting founders in achieving their visions.
- You are intellectually curious and don’t just check things off a list. You ask questions and aren’t afraid to think through all pathways to get to an answer.
- You love driving to the “so what” when dealing with complex data, but you’re also comfortable navigating unknowns.
- You can work independently and will proactively prioritize your time towards the most value-added tasks.
- You are detail-oriented and often catch the things that other people miss.
- You are humble, honest, perceptive and thoughtful.
Position Summary
As an Associate, you’ll be exposed to bleeding edge innovations across our focus verticals and also support all parts of the deal process, including: working with team members to develop compelling investment theses based on market trends and subject matter expert interviews, meeting with founders and sourcing deals, conducting due diligence on potential opportunities, and supporting portfolio companies after investment.
Location preference will be for Chicago (hybrid position).
What You’ll Do
- Deal Sourcing:
- Source vertical and stage-appropriate opportunities through networking and events.
- Prioritize and manage the deal pipeline.
- Research the product, market and competitors for select deals.
- Investment:
- Conduct financial analyses (including waterfall, pro forma cap tables, projected financials) to determine risk and returns profile.
- Prepare investment memos for review by the investment committee.
- Portfolio Support:
- Provide support to portfolio companies as needed.
- Monitor portfolio company performance and milestones.
- Platform:
- Stay ahead of trends, technologies, and market dynamics, especially in the verticals we invest in.
- Help with developing investment themes and increase the fund’s strategic knowledge database.
- Participate in fund operations and platform needs.
What We Offer
- Target base of $90-120K + competitive bonus.
- Full benefits, including medical, dental, vision and 401k match.
- Flexible time off policy.
- Note: unfortunately, we cannot sponsor visas at this time.
To Apply
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