[Hiring] Investment Analyst @Trolley

Role Description

Kinship Ventures backs the world's TAM creators: founders inventing new markets and building enduring companies. We run a focused, two-pronged strategy, backing high-growth companies approaching scale while taking early, conviction-driven positions in the next generation of category-defining founders.

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 (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 workstreams without dropping threads.

Requirements

• Experience supporting an active fund raise.
• Some marketing or copywriting strength, enough to contribute to newsletters and outward-facing fund communications.
• Consumer, media, or brand sector exposure.
• Bachelor's degree in business, finance, economics, or a related field.

Benefits

• Fast-moving, dynamic team environment.
• Collaboration and inclusion valued.
• Strong culture with a diverse and energetic team.

Key Responsibilities

• Fundraising & LP Support
  • 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.
• Investment Research & Diligence
  • 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.
• Deal Support
  • 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.
• Written Communication
  • 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.

What Sets the Right Candidate Apart

• You write like someone who has sat across from an LP.
• You have already worked inside a fund.
• You form opinions; you do not just assemble data.
• You track everything; nothing falls through.
• You move between analytical and relational work in the same day without losing quality in either.

Success Metrics

• 30 Days
  • Full fluency in the fund's thesis, portfolio, and active pipeline.
  • LP pipeline tracking current and accurate.
  • Fundraising materials audited; gaps and outdated content flagged.
  • First LP communications drafted and shipped with minimal revision.
  • Research priorities agreed with the Principal.
• 60 Days
  • LP Pipeline fully current, with every meeting logged and followed up.
  • Fundraising materials updated and consistent across deck, one-pager, and data room.
  • First market map or thematic research piece delivered.
  • Contributing to active diligence workstreams with limited direction.
  • LP communication drafted independently and shipped with light editing.
• 90 Days
  • Owns LP tracking and follow-up end to end; nothing pending, nothing missed.
  • Fundraising materials maintained without prompting.
  • Multiple research pieces delivered, with a clear point of view each.
  • Diligence support delivered on live opportunities, including primary research calls.
  • Written work reaches LPs and founders with editing that is optional, not required.
  • Trusted to draft in the fund's voice without a review cycle on routine communications.
  • Research and documentation workflows fully owned.

Application Requirement

Submit two writing samples: one analytical piece such as a memo, thesis, or research note, and one relationship-facing piece such as an LP update, recap email, or investor communication. Writing samples carry significant weight in this process.