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full-timeSenior Associate - Venture & Growth
Moonfare · London
Senior Associate - Venture & Growth (m/f/d) Join the team rewriting the rules in private markets. Moonfare delivers what few others can: the highly sought-after funds and hidden-gem investments that go beyond what most private banks offer. Every opportunity is subjected to a ruthless vetting process; the bar is unforgivingly high. The result? Institutional-quality portfolios for investors who demand more. Our team combines finance veterans with talent from tech, consulting, law and industries you’d never expect. Headquartered in Berlin, we operate from eight offices across Europe, the US and Asia. If you're ready to build what's next in private markets, let's talk. Mission: Turn Moonfare's access to the world's leading venture managers into a steady, well-underwritten flow of single-company investments our clients can actually buy. About the role: A significant share of Moonfare's AuM sits in venture and growth, and the direct side of it, co-investments and secondaries in VC-backed companies, is where the business is growing fastest. Right now that dealflow arrives faster than we can review it, which puts the deployment of our proprietary funds at risk and caps how far the direct platform can scale. The scope of this role begins the moment an opportunity reaches us and ends when the deal closes, so operations sits outside it, as does the client raise itself. Your first year is weighted towards screening, pipeline and diligence, with the sourcing and business development side building from there as your market view and relationships deepen. You will work alongside senior members of the team rather than alone, and what moves forward is decided together. The team: Venture & Growth sits inside Moonfare's Investment team and runs two connected things. One is a multi-manager vehicle making primary fund investments into leading VC and growth managers across the US and Europe, where we have historically backed Founders Fund, a16z, Accel, Lightspeed, Khosla and General Catalyst. The other is the direct programme of co-investments and secondaries that those manager relationships generate, which is where this role's centre of gravity sits. You will report to the Head of VC & Direct Investing and work daily with the commercial team, who depend on you for qualified dealflow, and alongside Legal and Operations to close deals and launch the SPVs we distribute on the platform. You will: Own the direct deal pipeline. Everything from the moment an opportunity reaches us through to close is yours to run, so nothing sits unscreened and no access window quietly closes while we are still deciding. Screen inbound co-investments and secondaries, and bring a view to the team. You run the first pass on what reaches us and form a position on it. What progresses is decided together with the Head of VC & Direct Investing and the wider team, so the value of your screen lies in the quality of the argument you bring to that conversation and in how sharply you separate the two or three worth our time from the rest. Run diligence on direct deals. The core of it is judgement on the business itself: how good the company is, how strong the founding team is, how large and how contested the market is, and whether the thesis survives contact with the evidence. The technical layer sits underneath, with cap table analysis, preference stacks and waterfalls, and pricing and NAV work on secondary positions, so we know exactly what we are buying and at what price. You will do this with support from senior members of the team, and contribute to primary fund diligence alongside the direct mandate. Author the investment memos that go to IC. The committee decides on what you put in front of it, so a memo with a gap in it, an inaccuracy, or a risk nobody spotted becomes a decision made on the wrong basis. Build the market view, and then the market position. Relationships with intermediaries, GPs and, over time, founders are what get us into constrained opportunities and keep us current on where secondaries are pricing. This part of the role grows as you do, and watching how competitors structure and go to market belongs to it, because that is what keeps us competitive on price. Help make the process repeatable. You will refine how we
| Role | Senior Associate - Venture & Growth |
|---|---|
| Company | Moonfare |
| Location | London |
| Type | full-time |
| Compensation | Not disclosed |
| Deadline | Rolling |
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- 1ApplicationSubmit your resume through the apply link.
- 2ScreeningRecruiter reviews your background against the role.
- 3AssessmentA technical test, assignment, or coding round, depending on the role.
- 4Interview(s)One or more rounds with the hiring team.
- 5OfferOffer letter with compensation and start date.
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