BigCircle Ventures is looking for an investment and finance professional to join our mission to create the next generation of cleantech ventures. We are an Amsterdam based deeptech venture builder and investment fund with a growing, entrepreneurial team. Our purpose is to accelerate the transition to a sustainable world.
At BigCircle, we build our own ventures
The world needs innovations to reach net-zero and circularity, but a wealth of research inventions never gets used at scale. BigCircle scouts promising deeptech across Europe and turns this into successful startups that tackle the world’s climate and circularity challenges. We focus on the large, untapped pool of early-stage innovations that would otherwise stay untouched on a shelf, hidden in a university, research institute or company lab.
We are an open, curious, and committed team with deep expertise in venture building and the energy and materials transition. We are setting up our first ventures and are now ready for further growth and internationalisation. Join this exciting and pioneering growth phase to be part of founding and supporting our first 30 high impact ventures over the next 3-4 years, while in parallel developing our own fundraising capability and corporate foundation.
We welcome applications from all suitably qualified individuals. As we are keen to ensure diversity
and balance in our team, we particularly encourage female candidates to apply
Your role
Your primary role is to lead our venture finance work, from assessing cleantech potential to supporting our ventures with fundraising and their development towards an exit. As well, you will be involved in the development of BigCircle itself, by collaborating with the CEO on fundraising, investor relations, financial modelling and management. Because we are a startup ourselves, you have many opportunities to build up and shape BigCircle.
Your personality
- You want to make a positive impact and believe in the power of technology, our purpose and team fit are a strong basis for your long term commitment
- You love both people and content, bring a positive and open outlook, and have an outgoing nature
- Your are driven to make a difference and enjoy a bit of hustle to get things moving
- You like to work hands-on within a team and to nurture more junior colleagues
Your responsibilities
- Develop and lead (as a working lead) our venture finance capability
- Selection – collaborate with our venture partners and developers to assess the investability and long term potential of cleantech inventions
- Creation – ensure our ventures start off with a solid financing roadmap and that the teams we recruit on the ventures are well onboarded and pitch ready
- Support – help our ventures to realise financing rounds (dilutive and non-dilutive) and be exit ready
- Support fundraising and investor relations for the venture builder and the fund (together raising EUR 20M+ in the coming 3 years) and further shaping our unique investment model and propositions
- Lead the corporate and financial management of BigCircle, together with our legal counsel and external administrator (note: this is a very limited part of your role)
Requirements
- At least 5-7 years relevant experience, with a track record in top-tier early stage funds, venture builders, startups, or similar
- You have made or attracted multiple early stage deeptech investments (dilutive and non-dilutive)
- You have built consortia for financing rounds of ventures (from SEED up)
- You have an active network amongst relevant early stage financers
- Expertise and network in relevant cleantech markets (for the moment, our scope excludes the agri, food and nature-based markets)
- Masters degree in either a relevant technical/scientific field or in finance
- Strong analytical and quantitative skills (including complex financial modelling)
- Fluent in English (spoken and written), as we will work all over Europe and beyond
- Based within commuting distance from Amsterdam (or willing to relocate), allowing for regular close collaboration in our office
We strongly believe that the right personality, motivation and team-fit form the key to
having impact, so we value those over having a ‘perfect score’ on all the criteria
The opportunity we offer
- Join an energetic and fast growing team with a proven venture building approach
- Make a positive impact by boosting the world’s journey to sustainability
- Co-own our business and future upside via equity
- Enjoy flexible teamwork – no mandatory office hours, but we love to meet each other in our Amsterdam office and enjoy our lunch together
You must have the right to work in the Netherlands, because
we do not have the capacity to offer visa sponsorship
If you are interested or have any questions, we would love to hear from you (please reach out to recruitment@bigcircle.ventures) or feel free to visit www.bigcircle.ventures or check out our LinkedIn feed (https://bit.ly/4869QID).