Investment Associate

Overview

Execution role behind SMC's capital raising and corporate development work, working directly with the Chief Development Officer to own the investor pipeline, dataroom, and investor-facing materials.

What you'll do

• Own the investor pipeline in Hubspot and Visible VC, maintaining it and keeping it current.
• Prepare the CDO and CEO for investor meetings, including counterparty background, positioning, the questions they will face, and the answers that need to land.
• Produce monthly investor updates and reporting packs.
• Own the dataroom end to end: structure, version control, access permissions, and keeping every document current.
• Monitor investor engagement and report on where interest is building and where it is stalling.
• Run the investor question and answer process from request through to closed out.
• Build pitch decks, investment papers, teasers and one pagers to a send ready standard, within quick turnaround times.
• Maintain a single library of approved slides, figures and language so materials stay consistent across audiences.
• Own preparation of board and shareholder materials.
• Build regular reads on funding activity, valuations, transactions and competitor movement across space, defence and deep tech, and the market maps that sit behind the raise narrative.
• Support commercial assessment of potential partners and counterparties.
• Support grant and non dilutive funding activity: identifying programs, preparing applications, and managing reporting and acquittals to deadline.
• Maintain the cap table and note register, and model dilution and return scenarios across instruments and rounds.

What you'll need

• 2 to 4 years in venture capital, corporate development, startup finance or a founder's office.
• Understanding of fundraising mechanics: rounds, instruments, cap tables, dataroom and diligence process.
• Excellent deck and document craft; able to take a rough brief and return something ready to send.
• Fluent with AI tools, Claude in particular.
• Hubspot, Visible VC or comparable CRM experience.
• Self starting, comfortable with ambiguity and thin process.
• Available across Australian and Indian time zones.

Details

• Location: Bengaluru, Bengaluru Urban, India.
• Works directly with the Chief Development Officer.