The Initiative for Industrial Innovators enables young entrepreneurs across Europe to design, prototype and deploy engineering-based innovations by providing translation and commercialization know-how, prototyping tools and stage-specific financial resources in the form of grants and convertible loans (up to EUR 1m provided in several funding steps) – unifying the efforts of family offices, advanced technical universities, entrepreneurship centers and the European Investment Fund to enable Europe-based industrial innovators.
Your responsibilities:
What we offer:
Your qualifications:
Investments
Screening and identification of teams qualifying for funding (grants or convertible loans)
Participation in startup events such as TechFounders Demo Day, XPRENEURS XHIBITION
Analysis of teams and their underlying business model
Preparation of monthly investment
committee meetings including investment recommendation
Portfolio Management
Regular meetings and monitoring of current investments
Preparation of follow-on investment decisions / divestments
Reporting
Preparation of reports from teams
Support with quarterly reporting
Maintenance of database for pipeline and funded teams
Insight into exciting new ventures and tech startups
Learning investment management on-the-job
Meaningful and varied work (high impact by early-stage funding)
International environment (experienced partners from USA and other European countries)
Access to the UnternehmerTUM network and activities
High interest for and experience in investment management with the goal to work in VC or PE
A deep passion for startups and entrepreneurship
A desire to take ownership and a strong bias for action
Strong critical thinking skills
Excellent communication skills
Interest in deep-tech industries such as Robotics,AI and IoT
University degree in finance or business administration
PPT, Excel and Google docs skills
Fluent in German and English in written and spoken form (minimum requirement level C1)
