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Fund Accounting Manager – B Capital Group

by Jennifer Zemel

B Capital is seeking a Finance Manager that is capable of taking additional responsibilities on from the team as the position progresses. This position is a great opportunity to gain a broad range of experience within a growing venture capital firm. The position will primarily be focused on fund accounting, portfolio company reporting, quarterly valuations, and internal/external reporting. The ideal candidate will be a self-motivated “all-purpose athlete” who can be flexible with their skills to help with a variety of projects across different firm areas.

Basic Job Responsibilities

  • Key member of lean internal finance team helping oversee multiple funds across a variety of sectors, geographies, and strategies
  • Collaborates with internal and external accounting teams to ensure timely and accurate financial reporting
  • Reconcile and manage various Funds, SPVs, and Holdco entities
  • Liaise with fund administrator for investments, capital calls, distributions, management fee calculations, and quarterly financial statement reporting
  • Work with internal and external teams to manage the quarterly valuation process across multiple entities
  • Maintain line of credit, including borrowings, paydowns, interest accruals, and compliance requirements
  • Assist with global portfolio reporting. Includes working with internal investment and platform team members, external portfolio companies, and overseeing a global portfolio reporting tech platform
  • Supports development of internal financial controls and their implementation
  • Assist in new fund launches including onboarding service providers, opening bank accounts, and coordinating with internal and external legal counsel on entity formation and fund documents
  • Assist with annual audit and tax process
  • Respond to quarterly and ad-hoc investor information requests and (Read more...)

Investor Relations Associate and Chief of Staff – B Capital Group

by Jennifer Zemel

B Capital Group is looking for an Investor Relations Associate and Chief of Staff to support our Co-Founder in Investor Relations related research, meetings, and events. The Associate shall be primarily responsible for assisting with existing investor servicing as well as project managing the fundraising process with a key focus on due diligence requests from potential investors. The Associate should also excel operationally and help support day-to-day IR processes, including, but not limited to, creating PowerPoint decks and speaking publicly about B Capital.


BASIC JOB RESPONSIBILITIES:

  • Lead investor outreach and fundraising efforts in partnership with the Co-Founder
  • Assisting with the preparation of fund-raising materials including executive summaries, pitch books, PPMs, DDQs, etc.
  • Collaborating with investment and finance teams to complete due diligence requests on an ad-hoc basis.
  • Organizing LP due diligence on-sites and prepare the relevant presentation materials.
  • Manage investor CRM database and various platforms while maintaining high accuracy of data through extensive quality checking procedures.
  • Supporting the planning, preparation, and implementation of various investor events
  • Developing and preparing annual LP conference materials, pitch books, performance memos
  • Supporting the broader finance and investor relations teams with existing and prospective investors
  • Supporting various initiatives in building out processes and infrastructure for the Investor Relations function
  • Traveling with the Co-Founder to internal meetings, offsites, or external conferences
  • Prepare for and attend meetings with the Co-Founder, driving follow ups and action items to resolution.
  • Working with individuals on investment, platform, and operations teams across B Capital’s global offices to manage and drive projects (Read more...)

Principal – Roble Ventures

by Jennifer Zemel

About Roble Ventures

Roble Ventures is an early-stage venture capital and seed fund investing $500k to $2 million in entrepreneurs who are passionate about building solutions and companies that help human progress, the future of work, edtech, and diversity and inclusion. Founded by Sergio Monsalve, former ex-Partner at Norwest Ventures, our firm has a proven track record and playbook that has helped entrepreneurs generate over $8B in market value (including 3 unicorns) by following a purposeful approach that fosters human enablement. Roble Ventures believes in technologies that “do well and do good” for all humans to progress. Sectors of focus include:’

  • Workplace transparency & remote work, including SaaS and data solutions that help our future of work;
  • Skills development platforms and education technologies that enable our future of learning; and
  • Job-creating marketplaces that deliberately create high fulfillment jobs through their supply-side and valuable products and services on the demand side.

Role Description

Roble Ventures is hiring a new investment professional reporting directly to the Founding Partner. We recently closed our fund and have fresh capital to invest, so this is a great time in the fund cycle for an entrepreneurial person to grow into an effective investor/partner quickly, ideally for our next fund. This investment professional, depending on experience, will be expected to primarily work on a number of investment-related activities such as sourcing new deals, participating in meetings with entrepreneurs, due diligence of potential investment opportunities, oversight of existing investments, analysis of fund returns, managing the deal pipeline, and (Read more...)

Associate – .406 Ventures

by Jennifer Zemel

We are .406 Ventures, a Boston-based venture capital partnership that focuses on early-stage investing in three enterprise-focused verticals: healthcare, data & cloud, and cybersecurity. We are passionate about finding and supporting the world’s best founders as they build game-changing companies that solve critical challenges in our focus areas.

You are a self-starter with a strong work ethic who is passionate about investing in and supporting early-stage companies. You’re intellectually curious with previous experience in one or more of our verticals. You’re a team player who is also comfortable working with others, but also taking ownership over critical workstreams, and you hold yourself to the highest personal and professional standards. You’re able to work in-person in our Boston office, and you have:

  • Experience analyzing businesses for investment, ideally including previous work history in venture capital/private equity, investment banking, and/or corporate development.
  • Excellent organizational skills and exceptional attention to detail.
  • Comfort with a data-driven approach to problem solving.
  • A desire to work in a fast-paced environment.

What you’ll do.  As an Associate, you will be a critical member of the .406 investment team. Your responsibilities will include:

  • Market research and thesis development: research and identify enterprise customer needs and market discontinuities that signal opportunities for start-up innovation; find and engage startups addressing those needs, and occasionally work with .406 team to create a de novo
  • Due diligence: build financial models, size market opportunities, analyze competitive landscapes, and make reference calls. You will also craft investment memoranda and presentation materials to (Read more...)

Associate – .406 Ventures

by Jennifer Zemel

We are .406 Ventures, a Boston-based venture capital partnership that focuses on early-stage investing in three enterprise-focused verticals: healthcare, data & cloud, and cybersecurity. We are passionate about finding and supporting the world’s best founders as they build game-changing companies that solve critical challenges in our focus areas.

You are a self-starter with a strong work ethic who is passionate about investing in and supporting early-stage companies. You’re intellectually curious with previous experience in one or more of our verticals. You’re a team player who is also comfortable working with others, but also taking ownership over critical workstreams, and you hold yourself to the highest personal and professional standards. You’re able to work in-person in our Boston office, and you have:

  • Experience analyzing businesses for investment, ideally including previous work history in venture capital/private equity, investment banking, and/or corporate development.
  • Excellent organizational skills and exceptional attention to detail.
  • Comfort with a data-driven approach to problem solving.
  • A desire to work in a fast-paced environment.

What you’ll do.  As an Associate, you will be a critical member of the .406 investment team. Your responsibilities will include:

  • Market research and thesis development: research and identify enterprise customer needs and market discontinuities that signal opportunities for start-up innovation; find and engage startups addressing those needs, and occasionally work with .406 team to create a de novo
  • Due diligence: build financial models, size market opportunities, analyze competitive landscapes, and make reference calls. You will also craft investment memoranda and presentation materials to (Read more...)

Analyst/Associate – Zero Infinity Partners

by Jennifer Zemel

Zero Infinity Partners (“ZIP”) was founded in 2022 to provide capital and expertise to early-stage companies disrupting the global infrastructure space – through innovation, digitization, and decarbonization. Focus sectors include energy, power, mobility, supply chain, telecom, waste, water,  and carbon. ZIP is currently investing out of its Fund I with an early-stage venture strategy – backing seed through Series B stage founders and companies.

Who we are looking for:

We are looking for a NYC-based analyst/associate to come onboard our team to help with all research and investment activities – including thesis creation, due diligence, memo writing, deal execution, and on-going support for portfolio companies. Additionally, given the unique start-up nature of ZIP, we are looking for someone who would thrive in an entrepreneurial environment and enjoy a small, tight-knit team culture.

Qualifications:

  • Authentic passion for infrastructure (through previous roles, school courses, summer jobs, etc.)
  • Strong interest in technology, entrepreneurship, and start-ups
  • Demonstrable track-record of teamwork, grit, and problem-solving skills
  • Relevant prior experience (consisting of 1-3 years of investment banking, management consulting, private/growth equity, and/or venture capital)

Takeaway:

We believe this is an incredibly unique opportunity for young infrastructure professionals to pivot to more early-stage style investing while leveraging their existing sector expertise (and passion) – all the while joining a young organization where your daily work can make a significant impact on the team and its members.

Salary Range: $100,000 – $150,000 salary range is calculated based on location, experience and skills. Additionally, the compensation package will include a (Read more...)

Analyst/Associate – Zero Infinity Partners

by Jennifer Zemel

Zero Infinity Partners (“ZIP”) was founded in 2022 to provide capital and expertise to early-stage companies disrupting the global infrastructure space – through innovation, digitization, and decarbonization. Focus sectors include energy, power, mobility, supply chain, telecom, waste, water,  and carbon. ZIP is currently investing out of its Fund I with an early-stage venture strategy – backing seed through Series B stage founders and companies.

Who we are looking for:

We are looking for a NYC-based analyst/associate to come onboard our team to help with all research and investment activities – including thesis creation, due diligence, memo writing, deal execution, and on-going support for portfolio companies. Additionally, given the unique start-up nature of ZIP, we are looking for someone who would thrive in an entrepreneurial environment and enjoy a small, tight-knit team culture.

Qualifications:

  • Authentic passion for infrastructure (through previous roles, school courses, summer jobs, etc.)
  • Strong interest in technology, entrepreneurship, and start-ups
  • Demonstrable track-record of teamwork, grit, and problem-solving skills
  • Relevant prior experience (consisting of 1-3 years of investment banking, management consulting, private/growth equity, and/or venture capital)

Takeaway:

We believe this is an incredibly unique opportunity for young infrastructure professionals to pivot to more early-stage style investing while leveraging their existing sector expertise (and passion) – all the while joining a young organization where your daily work can make a significant impact on the team and its members.

Salary Range: $100,000 – $150,000 salary range is calculated based on location, experience and skills. Additionally, the compensation package will include a (Read more...)

Communications Manager – General Catalyst

by Jennifer Zemel

The (Communications Manager) will play a critical role on the General Catalyst Marketing team, elevating the firm’s brand and increasing awareness of portfolio companies through creative and timely execution of funding announcements. You will collaborate with founders and their teams on everything from funding announcements to media training and at key moments delivering and imparting best-in-class communications practices.  

The Communications Manager will report to the VP of Brand and Communications. In this position, the person will play an active role in executing PR activities aligned with our key investment sectors including enterprise, consumer and health technology.

Strategic Priorities and Responsibilities:

  • Execute a robust cadence of funding announcements, optimizing news cycles. Working closely with the VP of Content & Engagement to secure and manage production of editorial content that includes GC  thought leadership >  to enhance brand awareness of GC and portfolio companies.
  • Set direction on pitch strategy and outreach while managing GC investing team involvement.
  • Leverage and build strong relationships with high profile VC and business media outlets.
  • Work closely with our PR agencies to build GC’s profile through its portfolio companies.
  • Through portfolio company communications initiatives, generate greater association around GC’s point of view and points of difference in the marketplace – to drive greater share of deal flow and LP investment.
  • Continue to innovate and oversee the portfolio comms process to ensure we can handle the increased volume of announcements without sacrificing caliber or depth of story.

The Candidate

The ideal candidate will have experience and (Read more...)

Communications Manager – General Catalyst

by Jennifer Zemel

The (Communications Manager) will play a critical role on the General Catalyst Marketing team, elevating the firm’s brand and increasing awareness of portfolio companies through creative and timely execution of funding announcements. You will collaborate with founders and their teams on everything from funding announcements to media training and at key moments delivering and imparting best-in-class communications practices.  

The Communications Manager will report to the VP of Brand and Communications. In this position, the person will play an active role in executing PR activities aligned with our key investment sectors including enterprise, consumer and health technology.

Strategic Priorities and Responsibilities:

  • Execute a robust cadence of funding announcements, optimizing news cycles. Working closely with the VP of Content & Engagement to secure and manage production of editorial content that includes GC  thought leadership >  to enhance brand awareness of GC and portfolio companies.
  • Set direction on pitch strategy and outreach while managing GC investing team involvement.
  • Leverage and build strong relationships with high profile VC and business media outlets.
  • Work closely with our PR agencies to build GC’s profile through its portfolio companies.
  • Through portfolio company communications initiatives, generate greater association around GC’s point of view and points of difference in the marketplace – to drive greater share of deal flow and LP investment.
  • Continue to innovate and oversee the portfolio comms process to ensure we can handle the increased volume of announcements without sacrificing caliber or depth of story.

The Candidate

The ideal candidate will have experience and (Read more...)

Operations Manager – Plexo Capital

by Jennifer Zemel

Plexo Capital is looking for an Operations Manager to join the team.

Plexo Capital is an investment manager focused on venture capital. The firm was incubated and spun out from GV (Google Ventures), based on a strategy to increase access to early-stage deal flow. Plexo Capital invests in emerging seed-stage venture capital funds, led by diverse managers, and invests directly into companies sourced from the portfolios of venture capital funds where our firm has an investment. Investors in Plexo Capital funds include Alphabet/Google, Intel Capital, Cisco Investments, the Royal Bank of Canada, Southern New Hampshire University, the Home Depot, Hearst Corporation, Hampton University + the Ford Foundation.

The Operations Manager will have responsibility for management of the operations of the firm’s investments including: managing the back office team, onboarding new investments, preparing fund metrics (both internal and external) and supporting firm wide operations. The ideal candidate is detail-oriented, organized and structured in their thinking. It is also important to have someone who thrives in a start up environment.

Specific responsibilities:

  • Main point of contact for the back office team (outsourced provider); work with the back office team to manage financial reporting, calculate cash needs for capital calls, manage the process for quarterly reports to limited partners (LPs), onboard new investments and prepare fund metrics.
  • Lead the process for the annual audit and preparation of K-1s; work as a member of the cross functional team with the back office and audit/tax team.
  • Support firm wide operations and lead processes related to (Read more...)