Associate, Capital Team

Description

Location: New York or San Francisco (flexible)

Start Date: September 2, 2024

About Endeavor:

Founded in 1997, Endeavor is a global organization with a mission to unlock the transformational power of entrepreneurship by selecting, supporting, and investing in the world’s top founders. Today, Endeavor has established a presence in nearly 35+ countries across Latin America, Asia, Africa, the Middle East, and underserved areas of Europe and the United States. Endeavor supports nearly 2,000 high-impact entrepreneurs leading 1,200+ companies at the “scale-up” stage, offering them a best-in-class seal of approval, an unrivaled personal and professional network, frictionless co-investment capital, and peer-to-peer idea exchange in a truly global setting.

Endeavor Catalyst is Endeavor’s rules-based, co-investment fund that invests in the companies of Endeavor Entrepreneurs. Since launching in 2012, Endeavor Catalyst has raised over $500M+ across four funds and made 315+ investments in 30+ different countries, including more than 50 companies now valued at $1B+. Endeavor Catalyst offers a unique opportunity for Endeavor to become financially self-sustaining by investing in the very entrepreneurs it supports, while generating access to world-class companies and meaningful returns for investors. Check out our Endeavor Catalyst Annual Report for 2023 and learn more HERE!

The Capital Team is a newly formed team that bridges Endeavor’s Entrepreneur Experience team, which delivers programmatic services to our entrepreneurs, and the Endeavor Catalyst team. Our job is to ensure Endeavor Entrepreneurs are thoroughly prepared to raise capital from the best investors, increase awareness amongst the best VCs about Endeavor markets and oversee the pipeline for Endeavor Catalyst investments.

About The Role

The Associate on the Capital team will deliver Endeavor’s core service offerings to entrepreneurs raising capital. This will involve preparing entrepreneurs to raise venture capital (pitch deck review, mentorship), helping to run investor roadshows (identifying target VC funds, making warm introductions, etc), and managing the deal flow for Endeavor’s own fund, Endeavor Catalyst. This is a unique opportunity to work with top founders across emerging and underserved markets and gain exposure to a high volume of global venture capital fundraises spanning 40 markets and six industry portfolios.

Responsibilities include:

• You will support the journey of Endeavor Entrepreneurs raising capital from the point of selection to fundraise to Endeavor Catalyst investment and beyond. This will include:
• Identifying and executing value-additive mentorships related to capital raising.
• Identifying and connecting entrepreneurs across markets and industries to facilitate peer to peer learning.
• Identifying investors that will be a good fit for the companies based on their specific investment thesis and executing the work of building investor lists populated with Endeavor’s insights and data.
• Execute on follow ups as needed to facilitate introductions with mentors, investors and other founders.
• You will support projects to raise the bar on capital-related servicing to improve the scale at which the Capital team can support Endeavor’s portfolio (1,200+ companies worldwide). This will include:
• Communicating knowledge on capital and fundraising knowledge to 600 colleagues worldwide.
• Building and maintaining an external database of resources on fundraising with Endeavor’s own data and insights to share with entrepreneurs.
• You will help support initiatives to engage and recruit investors to Endeavor. This will include:
• Managing investment thesis data of 300+ global funds.
• Preparing materials (emails, slides) to showcase Endeavor Entrepreneurs and our markets to be presented to investors.
• You will support Endeavor Catalyst investment process, decision and outcomes. This will include:
• Preparing investment memorandum for new prospective investments to share with Endeavor Catalyst’s governing committee (Reid Hoffman, Nico Szekazy, Joanna Rees, Nick Beim).
• Helping to track and produce analysis on investment approvals and deployment.
• Eventually, growing in knowledge of rules-based criteria to effectively communicate with Entrepreneurs about our process and decisions.
  

As a mission-oriented company, Endeavor seeks someone who is aligned with our values:

• Entrepreneur First: You are mission-oriented and believe in Endeavor’s model to change the world through high-impact entrepreneurship
• Go Big: You are someone whose curiosity drives them to dream (and execute!) big as Endeavor reimagines its service offerings to entrepreneurs. You proactively identify gaps, improve processes and anticipate challenges, and have a strong ability to synthesize large amounts of information and complex ideas.
• Network of Trust: You’re great with people! You naturally build and maintain relationships with key players and have the superior interpersonal skills needed to build trust with our entrepreneurs, mentors, and teams in over 40 markets.
• Pay It Forward: You’re someone with a service-oriented attitude who asks, “What can I do?” before asking, “What can I get?” You are a team player with a knack for problem-solving.
• One Endeavor: You’re comfortable working across cultures and will thrive on working with colleagues in over 30 different countries around the world on joint projects and knowledge sharing about in-country context and portfolio information. You have a vision for what you want to do in-region to build Endeavor Catalyst Network, and you have a bias for action to make it happen.
• Always Agile: You believe in the importance of planning but never hesitate to change plans in the face of new data and circumstances. You can wear many hats, are open to change, and can be a creative problem-solver. You are resourceful, adaptable, flexible, and able to work calmly under pressure.
  
  

Who We’re Looking For

• 1-2 years of professional experience including banking, consulting, start-up experience. High level of attention to detail and organization is a must. Financial acumen and knowledge about venture capital and entrepreneurship is a plus.
  
  

Benefits

Benefits include:

• competitive salary
• 401K matching up to 5%
• excellent healthcare, fully covered
• unlimited paid time off
• network of 600 amazing colleagues in 35 countries
• You will work most closely with Margaret Pollack (Director, Head of Investments & Capital), Anna Hubbell (Senior Associate, Capital), Cat Ardila (Associate, Capital), Allen Taylor (Managing Partner, Endeavor Catalyst)