Venture Analyst

Deal sourcing

As a Venture Analyst Intern, you will find promising investment opportunities by systematically researching high-potential founders and identifying opportunities for industry disruption.

Formulate and scrutinize investment theses. 

Why would we invest in this particular company? How defensible and durable is this business model? What creates the opportunity for an outsized return in a space? What market and technology trends are creating multi-axis arbitrages and therefore investing opportunities? You will be helping our team address and answer these types of questions about potential investment opportunities.

Support internal due diligence processes

As a Venture Analyst Intern, you will be assisting the deal team in performing diligence on a multitude of investment opportunities. You will assist, develop, and provide detailed analyses of a company’s target market, people, product, technologies, go-to-market plan, sales cycle, business model, forward looking financial forecasts, competitive dynamics, regulatory plan, and anything else relevant to making an investment decision. Your work will contribute to a Cartography Investment Memo that will be presented to our partners and syndicate network with considerable conceptual clarity.

Be an expert on finding experts. 

As a Venture Analyst Intern, you will continuously help grow & nurture the firm’s network of subject matter experts, and develop the ability to strategically identify the best resources to contact for a given diligence project. 

Boots on the ground operations. 

We invest in startups and we ourselves are a startup. You will learn inbound and outbound deal flow management, take notes during pitch meetings, track data for benchmarking our portfolio’s performance, and help the deal team institutionalize knowledge and data for our partners' use. 

Participate in the Cartography Ecosystem. 

As a member of the Cartography team, you will represent Cartography in the industry. You will have the opportunity to attend and participate in industry events.

Minimum Qualifications 

• Current Junior or Senior majoring in (but not exclusive to) business, economics, and/or STEM. 

• Familiarity with venture capital and the startup ecosystem. We do not require previous work experience in venture or at a startup company. Prior investing, diligencing, and sourcing experience is ideal but not required.

• Some professional experience, ideally in consulting, financial services / investing, or experience with academic research.

• Demonstrated analytical rigor and an ability to research complex topics, whether financial or technical, including both primary and secondary research.

• The ability to gather, learn, synthesize and effectively present and communicate (verbal/written) complex information.

• Authentic intellectual curiosity and a drive to explore.

• A natural user of the latest apps and technologies.

• Excellent attention to detail. 

• Ability to balance multiple projects and work on volatile deadlines.