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Investment Associate at Fictiv | LAYIQ

Sourcing and co-investor relationships
Our deal flow depends on being present in the pipelines of the firms that do lead. You will build and maintain relationships with investors across our sectors, work the accelerator and university research channels that produce frontier hardware companies, and keep a current map of who is funding what in robotics, automation, aerospace, and industrial software. You will run first meetings and write the memo that determines whether a partner takes a second.
Fund positioning and ecosystem presence
Founders and co-investors distinguish between a fund and a corporate development budget, and our credibility depends on being clearly understood as the former. You will own our external presence — website, content, founder-facing communications, and our participation in the deep-tech and hardware communities — and run the founder dinners, technical sessions and events that make us a known quantity in our categories.
Diligence and portfolio support
Technical and commercial diligence: customer references, expert calls, competitive and supply chain analysis, market sizing. Post-investment, you will connect portfolio companies into MISUMI's engineering and sourcing organization and support them through recruiting, customer introductions and subsequent financings.
Fund operations and LP reporting
Quarterly reporting to the LP, working with our fund administrator and the finance organization at MISUMI Americas. Portfolio and pipeline reporting for the investment committee. Ownership of the CRM and our data discipline.
Requi rem ents
Two to four years in venture capital, investment banking, management consulting, corporate development, or an operating role at a hardware or deep-tech company
Demonstrated technical fluency in mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, robotics, manufacturing or a related field highly preferred. You will be evaluating physical products and you need to be credible with the engineers building them
Strong written communication. Memos, market analysis, and LP reporting constitute a large share of the work
Established relationships in the venture, engineering or founder community a strong plus, or a clear plan for building them
Comfort operating without an existing playbook, at a fund making its first investments
Preferred
Prior exposure to hardware, robotics, aerospace, medtech or industrial automation, whether as an investor, engineer or operator
Familiarity with manufacturing, supply chain or design-for-manufacturing

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