[Hiring] Investment Analyst @Activate Talent

Role Description

This role supports the fund across two fronts:

• Capital formation: preparing materials, tracking LP conversations, and writing the communications that move a raise forward.
• Investment work: research, market mapping, diligence support, and the analysis behind conviction.

Writing is not a secondary skill in this role. A meaningful share of the work is written: LP updates, recap and follow-up emails, memos, newsletters, and fund materials. Investors here expect a client-service standard of communication, and this role delivers it.

Qualifications

• 2-3 years of relevant experience in venture capital, investment banking, startup ops/strategy, consulting, or founder's office roles.
• Direct exposure to fundraising, investor relations, or LP communications.
• Exceptional written English.
• Strong verbal communication.
• Solid analytical foundation: financial modeling, market sizing, competitive analysis, and comfort with accounting fundamentals.
• Working familiarity with term sheets, cap tables, and diligence processes.
• Proficiency in Excel, PowerPoint, and Google Workspace.
• AI fluency with Claude and ChatGPT for research, drafting, and analysis.
• Comfortable working with US-based teams and American business culture.
• Organized, autonomous, and able to hold multiple work streams without dropping threads.

Requirements

• Support active fundraising workstreams, from materials preparation through follow-up.
• Draft LP updates, recap emails, follow-up notes, and outreach communications.
• Maintain LP pipeline tracking and keep records current after every meeting.
• Prepare briefing materials and background research ahead of LP conversations.
• Support the development of fund decks, one-pagers, and data room materials.
• Contribute to fund newsletters and outward-facing communications.
• Develop market maps, thematic research, and investment theses across target sectors.
• Conduct primary research through calls with operators, customers, and industry experts.
• Support quantitative and qualitative diligence: market sizing, competitive benchmarking, financial analysis.
• Contribute to investment memos and materials for internal decision-making.
• Track deal flow, co-investor activity, and market momentum.
• Maintain research libraries and diligence documentation.
• Support deal execution workstreams alongside the Principal.
• Assist with diligence coordination, data requests, and document tracking.
• Build working familiarity with term sheets, cap tables, and governance documents.
• Keep deal materials current and accessible across the team.
• Write clear, warm, polished communications that adapt tone to the audience.
• Turn meetings and conversations into accurate, useful written recaps.
• Draft materials that go directly to LPs, founders, and co-investors with minimal editing.
• Support fund communications that require a marketing sensibility, not only an analytical one.

Benefits

• Fast-moving, dynamic team that values collaboration, inclusion, and a strong culture.
• Opportunity to work closely with founders and high-growth companies.
• Engagement in a high-trust, high-intensity partnership.

Success Metrics

• 30 Days: Full fluency in the fund's thesis, portfolio, and active pipeline; LP pipeline tracking current and accurate; first LP communications drafted and shipped with minimal revision.
• 60 Days: LP pipeline fully current, with every meeting logged and followed up; first market map or thematic research piece delivered.
• 90 Days: Owns LP tracking and follow-up end to end; multiple research pieces delivered, with a clear point of view each.

Application Requirement

• Submit two writing samples: one analytical piece and one relationship-facing piece.