Senior Venture & Growth Team Associate in Berlin

• A significant share of Moonfare’s AuM sits in venture and growth, and the direct side of it, co-investments and secondaries in VC-backed companies, is where the business is growing fastest
• Right now that dealflow arrives faster than we can review it, which puts the deployment of our proprietary funds at risk and caps how far the direct platform can scale
• The scope of this role begins the moment an opportunity reaches us and ends when the deal closes, so operations sits outside it, as does the client raise itself
• Your first year is weighted towards screening, pipeline and diligence, with the sourcing and business development side building from there as your market view and relationships deepen
• You will work alongside senior members of the team rather than alone, and what moves forward is decided together
• Venture & Growth sits inside Moonfare’s Investment team and runs two connected things
• One is a multi-manager vehicle making primary fund investments into leading VC and growth managers across the US and Europe, where we have historically backed Founders Fund, a16z, Accel, Lightspeed, Khosla and General Catalyst
• The other is the direct programme of co-investments and secondaries that those manager relationships generate, which is where this role’s centre of gravity sits
• You will report to the Head of VC & Direct Investing and work daily with the commercial team, who depend on you for qualified dealflow, and alongside Legal and Operations to close deals and launch the SPVs we distribute on the platform
• Own the direct deal pipeline. Everything from the moment an opportunity reaches us through to close is yours to run, so nothing sits unscreened and no access window quietly closes while we are still deciding
• Screen inbound co-investments and secondaries, and bring a view to the team. You run the first pass on what reaches us and form a position on it. What progresses is decided together with the Head of VC & Direct Investing and the wider team, so the value of your screen lies in the quality of the argument you bring to that conversation and in how sharply you separate the two or three worth our time from the rest
• Run diligence on direct deals. The core of it is judgement on the business itself: how good the company is, how strong the founding team is, how large and how contested the market is, and whether the thesis survives contact with the evidence. The technical layer sits underneath, with cap table analysis, preference stacks and waterfalls, and pricing and NAV work on secondary positions, so we know exactly what we are buying and at what price. You will do this with support from senior members of the team, and contribute to primary fund diligence alongside the direct mandate
• Author the investment memos that go to IC. The committee decides on what you put in front of it, so a memo with a gap in it, an inaccuracy, or a risk nobody spotted becomes a decision made on the wrong basis
• Build the market view, and then the market position. Relationships with intermediaries, GPs and, over time, founders are what get us into constrained opportunities and keep us current on where secondaries are pricing. This part of the role grows as you do, and watching how competitors structure and go to market belongs to it, because that is what keeps us competitive on price
• Help make the process repeatable. You will refine how we diligence direct deals and contribute to the sourcing, screening and monitoring tooling behind it, including AI-enabled approaches, so the volume we can handle is not capped by how much a person can read
• Turn deals into something our clients can buy. The commercial team depends on this seat for qualified dealflow and for support packaging opportunities into investor-ready materials. Fund deployment runs at the pace this work sets
• How the role is measured:
• Deals sourced, screened, and taken through to IC
• Timely deployment of Moonfare’s proprietary funds, such as the Moonfare Technology Fund
• Allocation secured with GPs and intermediaries, meaning access we would not otherwise have had
• Whether IC can decide on your memos without rework, and whether risks surface in diligence rather than after close
• Capital raised on direct deals and the performance ultimately generated. These are programme outcomes you contribute to rather than own alone, and they are read that way
• By six months, the deal pipeline runs without the Head of VC & Direct Investing having to chase it. Opportunities are screened as they arrive, you are bringing a formed view on each one to the team, and the queue is visible to everyone who needs it.|
• By twelve months, deal review is fully operationalised, with a process the team can run rather than one person’s habits, and more than ten direct deals have been through IC

Benefits

• Attractive compensation: We benchmark our compensation against other Fintechs and aim to pay at the 75th percentile.
• Relax and Recharge: You start your career at Moonfare with 25 vacation days and earn one extra day per year of tenure. Additionally, we have company-wide days off on different occasions.
• Growth budgets: Each full-time employee receives a minimum of €1,500 growth budget/ year that can be used for seminars, coaching, certification or other things that fosters your growth.
• Free daily lunches: On top of snacks, fruits, cereals and drinks, we offer lunch in our Berlin office and generous lunch budgets in our other offices.
• Mental health support: Our mental health platform nilo.health gives all employees access to online counseling, daily meditations and mindfulness workshops.
• Other benefits: We also offer a variety of other benefits like company parties and events, a referral bonus of €2,000, spontaneous company-wide vacation and company merch.

Just as important is what you build over time with GPs and intermediaries, the standing that makes them think of us when something scarce comes up, because that is what turns a contact list into accessThis is a builder’s seat as much as an investor’sDirectly relevant adjacent backgrounds include TMT and technology investment banking, tech-focused private equity or software buyout, corporate development or corporate VC at a technology company, and consulting with a tech or commercial diligence focusYou want a hand in structuring, go-to-market, process design and the operational scaffolding of a business line that is still being builtYou form a view on a company and argue it, including the case againstThis one is non-negotiable tooInvestment judgement you can defendRelationships with GPs, intermediaries such as placement agents and bankers, and other LPs and co-investors, enough to get us access to constrained opportunities, support diligence and track spin-out candidatesExcellent written and spoken English is essentialFour or more years centred on venture and growth investingWhat matters most is a demonstrable track record of hands-on deal work: screening opportunities, running diligence, and taking a view through to a decisionYou can read a business and a founding team, size a market and test a thesis against what the evidence actually supportsYou do need a real one, and you will build a much larger one hereYou can pitch and tailor to an investment committee, to a commercial team, and to clients, and prepare the reports and presentations each of them needsYou assess attractiveness quickly on limited or imperfect information, you are comfortable with financial modelling and market analysis, and you know your way around cap tables, preference stacks and waterfalls, secondary pricing, VC term sheets and SPV mechanicsThat comes along one of two pathsThis one is non-negotiableYou are genuinely fluent in emerging technology and can develop conviction on themes and business models, with AI front of mind but not the only lensA network in venture you can already useCommunication that works in three different rooms, and relationships that outlast any one dealYour AI fluency goes past using the tools to designing processes around themYou do not need the network of someone twice your experienceAn entrepreneurial instinct, which matters here as much as the investingYou can hold several live opportunities at once and prioritise sharply between themEither direct investment expertise, sourcing and diligencing investments in technology companies at a venture capital, growth equity or crossover fund, or an allocator seat focused on VC and growth where you have underwritten co-investments hands-on

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