Deeptech Visiting Analyst - September 2024 to February 2025

Verve Ventures supports groundbreaking companies that tackle humanity’s greatest challenges with technology. Our team is a great place for learning as we have colleagues with very different educational and international backgrounds. We’re ambitious and entrepreneurial but we’re also very helpful and humble. We invest in our people and give everyone the shared responsibility and opportunity of shaping the future development of our company, guided by the common goal to change the venture capital industry itself and making investing in the best European startups more accessible to people. This is your chance to join the company that is setting a new standard in European venture capital and making this exciting industry more diverse and successful.

As a Visiting Analyst you will be part of the Investment team. The investment team consists of roughly 10 professionals working closely together. Read this blog post that our former Visiting Analyst Pablo Behrens wrote after his internship with us, to find out more about the day-to-day work and what he thought about his internship with Verve.

As a Visiting Analyst for Verve Ventures you will:

• Screen and source outstanding startup companies
• Help the investment team to conduct due diligences and evaluate investment opportunities together with industry experts
• Support the investment team in the structuring of financing rounds
• Support startups and investors through the financing round process

To be successful in the position we believe you:

• Hold a Master's degree;
  • As an early stage technology investor we particularly value your scientific knowhow in a natural science [Biol, Chem, Phys, Math, etc.] or an engineering degree [MEng, ElEng, etc.]
• Have a keen interest in new technologies and venture capital, prior VC knowledge not required
• Have a very strong analytical thinking and an ability to prioritise and manage a large amount of tasks in parallel
• Thrive in an environment where you are expected to execute independently and autonomously
• Are entrepreneurially minded and a strong team player
• Speak English fluently. Fluency in French or German is a strong advantage.
• Are available during the entire period of 6 months
  

We are looking for candidates joining our team in Zürich.

• Frequent team events, flat hierarchy
• A young and rapidly evolving company that gives every employee the opportunity to make decisions and shape our success
• Days off between Christmas and New year
  

We strongly believe that diverse experiences and viewpoints are key for any productive work environment, in particular for successful venture capital investors. We therefore consider applications irrespective of nationality, ethnical background, age, sexual orientation, gender, disability or family situation. We also encourage applications from re-entrants to work and are open to discuss part-time roles.