About the role
We offer the opportunity to help build a new VC fund and develop fast. At DeepTechXL, analyst contribute to all key areas of work: Value creation, fund management, and origination. You’ll work as part of a team and will be trusted with high impact work from day 1. Examples of projects are developing an exit strategy for one of our portfolio companies, do a deep-dive on the technology of a potential investment, or work on the operational plan for our own team for the coming year.
What You'll Do
- Assist in deal flow process i.e. Due Diligence of new ventures, analyze markets and competitive environments, evaluate and benchmark business models, valuations, financial models, and deal modelling.
- Assist in value creation, such as contributing go to market analyses, improving financial models, mapping out co-investor network, or analyzing comparable companies.
- Assist in proactively sourcing new deals from key sources of deals, such as the technical universities and research institutes.
- Do research into emerging technologies and technologies used by potential new investments
- Solve key strategic problems through analytical frameworks and insights to advise the team on key decisions.
- Performing deep dives into technology areas that could be of interest to the fund and markets to determine future investment thesis.
- Perform administrative tasks that are related to the management of a venture capital fund.
- Present your work in writing, slides and/or verbally in team meetings and meetings with portfolio companies as well as writing investment proposals.
Basic Qualifications
- Passion: Passion and drive for bringing innovations to the world to make a positive, societal impact.
- Education: Completed a master-degree in a business, economics, or technical field, such as physics, electrical engineering, aerospace engineering, mechanical engineering, biomedical engineering, industrial engineering, econometrics, or finance.
- Experience: 0 – 3 years of work experience.
- Work authorization: Work authorization in the Netherlands.
- Language: Written and spoken fluency in English.
Preferred Qualifications
- Communication: Using interpersonal skills and situational awareness to clearly deliver information to a variety of audiences.
- Planning and Organization: Setting up and maintaining systems to appropriately structure and keep track of tasks and projects.
- Autonomy: Able to take initiative and feel confident in proactively engaging our team, our community and our stakeholders.
- Problem Solving: Effectively resolving issues that involve people, things, and processes by using logic and common sense.
- Stakeholder Management: Taking time to build meaningful relationships; earning the trust of others within the organization through strong situational awareness and reliability.
- Teamwork: Demonstrates optimism, respects others, and works well in a team.
- Skills: Experience with (financial) modeling, basic programming skills, and PowerPoint or equivalent is highly appreciated.
About DeepTechXL
DeepTechXL started as a venture capital fund in May 2022 to make a difference for deep tech ventures. ‘Deep-tech’ is a category of advanced enabling technologies developed at research facilities to address the grand societal challenges as defined by the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals in the areas of healthcare, energy transition and sustainability, security and food. Deep-tech innovation enables long-term sustainable economic success and creates high value-add employment in the advanced high-tech manufacturing industry.
The fund has €111M to invest, and is backed by ASML, PME Pensioenfonds, Philips, Invest-NL, and TNO, amongst others. DeepTechXL has surrounded itself with a unique ecosystem of tech corporates, universities and research institutes that takes care of deal flow, knowledge, network, technologies, pilots, supply chain, etc.
DeepTechXL believes in its unique DNA that is captured in our values, captured in THE DREAM: Teamwork, Happiness, Entrepreneurship, Diversity, Responsibility, Excellence, Authentic, and Movement.
Working at DeepTechXL
Perks & Benefits: We offer a competitive remuneration, a steep learning curve, and fun!
Application Process
Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis. Apply via Linkedin or info@deeptechxl.com