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Full-time Growth Equity Associate

Lead Edge Capital

Lead Edge Capital

Full-time Growth Equity Associate

Santa Barbara, CA +1 location
Full Time
Paid
  • Responsibilities

    Associates play an integral part in generating deal flow for the firm and analyzing potential investments directly alongside the senior investment partners.

    Successful Associates will have one-on-one conversations with roughly 800 entrepreneurs each year in an effort to find investments for the firm.

    Once an Associate identifies an opportunity, he/she will become an integral part of the due diligence process and post investment the associate will be intimately involved with working with the portfolio company.

  • Qualifications

    Full-Time Associates will be current Seniors in college or recent graduates.

    Associates who join the firm are entrepreneurial self-starters who are highly competitive, charismatic, and motivated to succeed in an extremely fast paced environment.

    Successful candidates will often have had experience in consulting, finance, sales, or an entrepreneurial organization.

    In addition, successful applicants should have a strong academic background and demonstrated extracurricular success.

    Given that the position is predominately outbound sourcing of investment opportunities, a background in sales or other business development is valuable.

  • Desired skills

    Sales experience, technology interest, hustle

  • Compensation
    Competitive compensation in-line with venture capital and private equity
  • Benefits
    • Health & Dental Insurance

    • Equinox Membership

    • Dinners at the office

  • Industry
    Venture Capital and Private Equity
  • Locations
    Santa Barbara, CA • New York, NY
  • About Us

    Lead Edge Capital (“LEC”) is a growth equity firm with over $1 billion in assets. Founded in 2009, LEC invests in rapidly growing software, internet, consumer, tech-enabled and healthcare services companies around the globe. One of the firm’s core differentiators is that LEC’s investors are primarily current or former Fortune 500 C-level executives or board members, successful entrepreneurs, and advisors to big companies. LEC leverages its investors to (1) help companies by accelerating business development and sales via introductions to senior-level decision makers and (2) engage their networks to identify and place board members, advisors, and talent to prospective and portfolio companies. Lead Edge has invested in leading technology companies around the world such as Alibaba Group, Uber, Refinery29, Marketo, Bazaarvoice, Mindbody, Drilling Info, Refinery29, BlaBlaCar, Catawiki and Duo Security. The firm has offices in New York, NY and Santa Barbara, CA.