VC Analyst @ Fin Capital in San Francisco, CA

Fin Capital

Technical Analyst Role

Role Description: We are actively hiring new a Technical Analyst to join our team to focus on the following responsibilities:

Sourcing:

  • Conducting market analysis and opportunity identification via academic research, customer interviews, conferences, incubator and University demo days, and peers (Angels/VCs).
  • Proactively developing relationships with identified early stage (Seed, Series A, and B) companies that align to our investment theses and scope

Diligence and Investment Execution:

  • Lead technical diligence into software/products that the team is evaluating for investments
  • Support the team’s market mapping, initial screening and subsequent deep due diligence of potential investments
  • Support development of diligence materials, valuation/exit models, and Investment Memo/Scorecard to assess market sizing, talent assessment, product-market fit, key metrics/financials, capital structure, valuation modeling and exit scenarios, risks, etc.

Portfolio Company Operating Support:

  • Support portfolio companies around product strategy, talent sourcing, business development, regional market and global expansion and support for future financing
  • Help gather and manage portfolio performance, metrics, and financials on a Quarterly basis
  • Support capital raising for the firm and portfolio company follow-on round growth financings

Software Development:

  • Develop tools/software to support firm’s data-driven investing & portfolio management
  • Maintain firm’s proprietary software Lighthouse

Desired Skills and Experience:

  • 1-3 years of software development experience (ideally at a FinTech company) and/or web app development experience (PHP, JavaScript, CSS, SQL, Python, Nginx, Docker, etc.)
  • Excitement to join and help scale a specialist VC focused on FinTech software in North America, UK/EU, LatAm, and Israel.
  • Passion for FinTech, along with InsurTech, PropTech and adjacent spaces.
  • Alignment with Fin’s values in working in collaborative teams, high integrity, merit-driven and no ego/entitlement.
  • B.A. or B.S. in related fields
  • DE&I candidates strongly preferred

About Us:

Fin Capital is a full lifecycle global asset manager exclusively focused on FinTech software. We invest from pre-seed to pre-IPO along with the public markets. As ESG investors, we seek impact on several dimensions and our mission is to build a long-term legacy for our investors, founders, firm and team members – the “Fin Family.” We are passionate about rolling up our sleeves and partnering with repeat entrepreneurs that have deep financial services experience, audacious goals, differentiated products, and a global platform mindset.

We call ourselves “FinTech Nerds with Capital” as we are operators at our core with deep corporate and start-up leadership experience – we know intimately what it’s like to walk in entrepreneurial shoes. Through our “OS” Lighthouse and hands-on operating playbook, we add meaningful value beyond capital throughout the partnership lifecycle.

Read more about us here: https://fin.capital

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