Venture Capital Working Student - b2venture Direct Investments mfd - Spring 2024

b2ventures Direct Investment Team is looking for an additional team member (m/f/d) to join our team as a Working Student as of April or May 2024. The duration should be at least 5 months to make the most of it.

Founded in 2000 b2venture is one of Europes most experienced venture capital firms. The group makes earlystage investments through its dedicated funds and stageagnostic investments through its direct investment track. b2venture is supported by a strong community of angel investors fostering the firms passion for backing the unique entrepreneurs maverick ideas and outlier companies that will define tomorrow. The firm began its journey in St. Gallen Switzerland and now has additional offices in Berlin Zurich Munich and Luxembourg. b2venture deploys over EUR 100 million per year across Europe leveraging the power of its multigenerational investor community. b2venture has proudly backed companies such as 1KOMMA5 DeepL Facebook Raisin Foodspring ORCAM SumUp Volocopter and XING.

The b2venture Direct Investments Team works closely with our vibrant angel community of ca. 200 (ex) entrepreneurs who invest and support the b2venture team to source select win and support excellent companies. One of the major responsibilities of the team is to secure funding for investment opportunities on a dealbydeal basis from our angel network.

Details

• Team: Direct Investments
• Start date: April or May 2024
• Duration: Minimum of 5 months parttime
• Workplace: Berlin

Tasks

Your mission:

Join us on our mission to invest in the outlier companies of tomorrow by collaborating with Europes strongest community of angel investors

Your role:

The role combines the privilege of working with leading angels and the attractions of VC dealmaking:

• Support the team in building relationships with the members of b2ventures angel investor community and communicate potential investment opportunities
• Work on initiatives to further strengthen the angel community e.g.
  through new event formats development of marketing material and landscape screening
• Collaborate with b2ventures fund teams and the angel community to screen and analyze new and promising investments (with a focus on sectoragnostic growth investments)
• Conduct industry research and develop new investment hypotheses
• Support in managing investment processes for new and followon transactions ranging from due diligence activities investor onboardings and investment presentations

Requirements

Your profile:

• You are fluent in spoken and written German and English
• You have completed the fourth semester of your studies in business economics computer science or have a technical background and achieved outstanding academic results
• You gained operating experience in a startup (preferably Sales or Business Development) banking (wealth management) consulting or investment firm
• You are passionate about entrepreneurship and have a solid understanding of digital business models
• You are a team player and selfstarter with superb social skills and humor
• You combine social with analytical excellence with high attention to detail and a proactive mindset
• You have excellent MS Office skills specifically concerning Excel and PowerPoint

Process:

• Please send your CV via JOIN
• Selected candidates will then meet multiple team members via Zoom & work through a case study

We look forward to hearing from you!

b2venture is an equal opportunity employer that does not discriminate based on ethnicity religion creed or sexual orientation. We foster a culture that embraces all individuals and encourages diverse perspectives. We want to work with the most talented and brightest minds regardless of where they come from how they look like whom they love or what they believe.