Venture Ecosystem Principal
About The Position
As Venture Ecosystem Principal, you will play a pivotal role in building relationships with the early stage venture community to source founders, identify, develop, and structure co-build deals with venture firm partners, bring market insights to co-ideation processes with founders, and partner with the existing portfolio on strategic finance and capital markets efforts. This is a highly visible and cross-functional role in which you will interact closely with founder sourcing, ventures research and co-ideation, the Investment Committee, the portfolio management team, as well as portfolio company CEOs and existing and prospective investors.
Requirements
- 5+ experience at a venture firm or a venture-backed company involved in deal/founder sourcing, deal closing, or startup fundraising
- An exiting venture ecosystem network
- Fluency in financial modeling, valuation methodologies and deal structuring
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Self-starter who is able to work independently and collaboratively
Responsibilities
- Venture Firm Relationship Building, Deal Development, & Sourcing:
- Build and own Redesign’s relationships with the venture community
- Identify dynamics in the evolving venture market and opportunities to partner on co-builds or existing deals
- Contribute thematic and market insights to research and co-ideation processes with founders as well as to existing portfolio company founders. Make recommendations for thematic white spaces of opportunity
- Source founders through venture ecosystem network building
- Close and structure co-build NewCo deals and bring in capital alongside existing pre-seed deals
- Portfolio Engagement:
- Share market insights regarding strategic finance, benchmarks and fundraising/capital structure with existing portfolio companies
- Provide partnership and advice to portfolio company founders on venture firm relationship building and fundraising
- Build roster of relationships and insights to benefit portfolio company fundraising processes
- Venture Ecosystem Community Building & Thought Leadership:
- Host events and attend conferences with potential founders and venture firms
- Contribute to Redesign’s thought leadership in the early stage healthcare AI community
- Produce content to attract founders and venture co-build relationships
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
No Education Listed
Number of Employees
101-250 employees
