Investment Analyst
About The Position
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. First, capital formation: preparing materials, tracking LP conversations, and writing the communications that move a raise forward. Second, 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.
Requirements
- 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. This is a primary filter. You write clearly, warmly, and precisely, and you adapt register depending on whether the reader is an LP, a founder, or an internal stakeholder
- Strong verbal communication. You are credible on calls with senior investors and operators
- 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. No coding required
- Comfortable working with US-based teams and American business culture
- Organized, autonomous, and able to hold multiple workstreams without dropping threads
Nice To Haves
- 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
Responsibilities
- 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
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Entry Level
Education Level
Associate degree
