Vice President - Venture Investing - Consulting Firm

VP- Venture Investing

About our client :

Our client backs fearless entrepreneurs building IP-driven companies of consequence from India. They are an early stage venture fund with a mission to invest in IP-driven Indian startups creating breakthrough healthcare, agriculture, renewables, and advanced technology innovations. They believe India and its transformational entrepreneurs are producing globally competitive and disruptive solutions for some of the toughest challenges.

Their ventures can not only be game-changers in the Indian context - but emerge as dominant leaders globally. Through their early-stage capital, unparalleled networks, strategic insights and operational hand-holding, they can significantly de-risk the process of conversion of these ideas into companies of consequence.

Our client is looking for a VP - Venture Investing position who would be responsible for sourcing & identifying new investment opportunities, who would do portfolio management to help startups onboard.

Key Responsibilities Includes :

- Managing the entire deal lifecycle including

- Sourcing and evaluation of new investment opportunities, in areas of interest

- Championing of identified deals through the investment committee

- Coordination of due diligence and closure of deal transaction (end-to-end)

- Actively add value to the portfolio companies through business inputs, networks, fund-raising support.

- Continuously research and build-out of knowledge base and fund thesis

- Contribute actively towards overall fund level strategy

- Active participation in the start-up community, develop a robust ecosystem of peer VCs, CEOs, etc.

Qualifications :

- Experience in Venture Capital investments, in a top tier consulting firm, as a startup founder, or in a role working closely with Startups

- Healthcare domain knowledge/investing experience required a big positive.

- Technology background required (Experience or Education)