Job description
ABOUT LIGO PARTNERS
Ligo Partners co-invests with our discrete and invitation-only consortium of like-minded investors into disruptive tech-focused deal flow sourced directly from family offices and top venture capital firms worldwide.
As of January 2024, Ligo Partners’ global platform co-invests with 3,500+ domestic and international family offices and qualified investors with a combined net worth of $330 billion who are interested in non-traditional, market-uncorrelated technology investment opportunities that (a) are not easily found - think Uber at seed; and (b) have shown resilience to changes in the recent economic environment.
Our investment team sources 60+ potential investments each month with an important selection criteria: the deal is led by a top venture capitalist or an investor in the Ligo family office community. Hence, 100% of our deal flow is warmly referred, often proprietary and mostly off-market.
Our investment committee then selectively curates top 7 direct equity and debt investments showcased via a highly time-efficient 45min curated deals monthly webinar.
Since 2022 Ligo Partners has deployed $415mm into 80 tech companies backed by tier-one venture capitalists and succedfully exited 10 companies.
JOB DESCRIPTION
Preference is given to candidates with investment experience, education, or background in Technology Growth Equity and Buyouts.
This position is for immediate start and is mostly remote. We seek people with different backgrounds, experience, and passions, including a variety of academic fields and professions, such as financial services, engineering, science, technology, mathematics, or data analytics.
Essential duties and responsibilities:
This position will be responsible for establishing strong relationships with our Family Offices and institutions to develop, maintain and execute contracts, and offer a unique opportunity of being involved in all aspects of due diligence on potential investments to be presented to our network of Family Offices and institutions (business analysis, industry thesis, competitive landscape, business/pricing model, and financial modeling / deal structuring).
More specifically, the duties and responsibilities involve:
- Deal sourcing from, venture funds, private equity funds, startup founders, and strategics via proactive, outbound business development activities such as: cold-calling and email campaigns
- Pitch decks review and markets/companies assessment to identify compelling businesses to be presented to the Family Offices, institutions, and buyout funds
- Maintaining of deals pipeline through ongoing relationship management / business development activities
- Build understanding of differences between Ligo Partners and other competitors in the marketplace; calls on new prospects to create awareness of Ligo Partners’ position in the marketplace
- Stay abreast of investments trends through ongoing review of industry publications, periodic published reports and data generated via the Ligo Partners network via email surveys
- Prepares materials for use in business development meetings and other meetings using PowerPoint and other presentation tools
- Investment Committee team support in efforts to create and improve business development processes and functions
Skills:
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Positive attitude, attention to detail with strong organizational skills, analytical thinking, and flexibility. Highly analytical, ability to interpret and analyze complex legal documents, deal structuring and financial transactions.
- Manage complex spreadsheets with large amounts of data and advanced functions.
- Capable of articulating written and oral communication for recommendations in a clear and logical manner.
- Take ownership of work product and deliver within tight deadlines.
- Ability to handle highly confidential and sensitive information.
Education and relevant experience:
- Working toward Undergraduate or Master’s degree (MS, MBA) in Analytics, Finance, Investment Management, Sciences, Engineering, Mathematics, or related fields.
- A previous internship or 1-2 years of experience in the field of investments / finance. Family Office, Venture Capital, Asset Management, Investment/Bank, Hedge Fund, Private Equity or Consulting experience appreciated.
- Advanced knowledge of Excel.
- Certifications such as ASA, CFA, CPA or CAIA are optional.
Ideal candidate could be:
- Individuals looking to join venture capital and private equity funds
- Individuals who are new hires at VC/PE funds and starting their new job after the program ends
- Angel investors and family offices who seek to professionalize their investment strategies
- Experienced professionals who would like to make career transitions. Examples include individuals with 1-3 yrs investment banking and/or consulting experience, individuals who have worked within corporate business development, innovation, or corporate VC, individuals who have worked at a startup and founders of companies
- Individuals at corporations that want to launch their own corporate VC
- Undergraduate and graduate students
- Individuals with extraordinary abilities & exceptional achievements: Individuals who have gone against the odds with spectacular success and/or failure, created something from nothing, executed something to a large scale with limited resources, uncovered and leveraged secrets within market dynamics, acted in creative ways and built solutions to hard problems
Ideal Time Commitment:
- 20 hours a week minimum
- Compensation: Course credit. Stipend offered, depending on level of experience
Submit to: av@ligopartners.com
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Industry
- Venture Capital and Private Equity Principals