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 Indias startup ecosystem
- Were focused on startups leveraging applied GenAI to build bigger, next-generation businesses rapidly
- 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 Caprias key investment sectors.
- Become an expert in Caprias 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 firms long-term strategy, build thought leadership and strengthen the firms 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
- Bachelors 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.
