Senior Associate - Venture & Growth

Senior Associate - Venture & Growth (m/f/d) Join the team rewriting the rules in private markets. Moonfare delivers what few others can: the highly sought-after funds and hidden-gem investments that go beyond what most private banks offer. Every opportunity is subjected to a ruthless vetting process; the bar is unforgivingly high. The result? Institutional-quality portfolios for investors who demand more. Our team combines finance veterans with talent from tech, consulting, law and industries you’d never expect. Headquartered in Berlin, we operate from eight offices across Europe, the US and Asia. If you're ready to build what's next in private markets, let's talk. Mission: Turn Moonfare's access to the world's leading venture managers into a steady, well-underwritten flow of single-company investments our clients can actually buy.

About the role

A significant share of Moonfare's AuM sits in venture and growth, and the direct side of it, co-investments and secondaries in VC-backed companies, is where the business is growing fastest. Right now that dealflow arrives faster than we can review it, which puts the deployment of our proprietary funds at risk and caps how far the direct platform can scale. The scope of this role begins the moment an opportunity reaches us and ends when the deal closes, so operations sits outside it, as does the client raise itself. Your first year is weighted towards screening, pipeline and diligence, with the sourcing and business development side building from there as your market view and relationships deepen. You will work alongside senior members of the team rather than alone, and what moves forward is decided together. The team: Venture & Growth sits inside Moonfare's Investment team and runs two connected things. One is a multi-manager vehicle making primary fund investments into leading VC and growth managers across the US and Europe, where we have historically backed Founders Fund, a16z, Accel, Lightspeed, Khosla and General Catalyst. The other is the direct programme of co-investments and secondaries that those manager relationships generate, which is where this role's centre of gravity sits. You will report to the Head of VC & Direct Investing and work daily with the commercial team, who depend on you for qualified dealflow, and alongside Legal and Operations to close deals and launch the SPVs we distribute on the platform. You will: Own the direct deal pipeline. Everything from the moment an opportunity reaches us through to close is yours to run, so nothing sits unscreened and no access window quietly closes while we are still deciding. Screen inbound co-investments and secondaries, and bring a view to the team. You run the first pass on what reaches us and form a position on it. What progresses is decided together with the Head of VC & Direct Investing and the wider team, so the value of your screen lies in the quality of the argument you bring to that conversation and in how sharply you separate the two or three worth our time from the rest. Run diligence on direct deals. The core of it is judgement on the business itself: how good the company is, how strong the founding team is, how large and how contested the market is, and whether the thesis survives contact with the evidence. The technical layer sits underneath, with cap table analysis, preference stacks and waterfalls, and pricing and NAV work on secondary positions, so we know exactly what we are buying and at what price. You will do this with support from senior members of the team, and contribute to primary fund diligence alongside the direct mandate. Author the investment memos that go to IC. The committee decides on what you put in front of it, so a memo with a gap in it, an inaccuracy, or a risk nobody spotted becomes a decision made on the wrong basis. Build the market view, and then the market position. Relationships with intermediaries, GPs and, over time, founders are what get us into constrained opportunities and keep us current on where secondaries are pricing. This part of the role grows as you do, and watching how competitors structure and go to market belongs to it, because that is what keeps us competitive on price. Help make the process repeatable. You will refine how we diligence direct deals and contribute to the sourcing, screening and monitoring tooling behind it, including AI-enabled approaches, so the volume we can handle is not capped by how much a person can read. Turn deals into something our clients can buy. The commercial team depends on this seat for qualified dealflow and for support packaging opportunities into investor-ready materials. Fund deployment runs at the pace this work sets. The next Moonfarian: Four or more years centred on venture and growth investing. That comes along one of two paths. Either direct investment expertise, sourcing and diligencing investments in technology companies at a venture capital, growth equity or crossover fund, or an allocator seat focused on VC and growth where you have underwritten co-investments hands-on. Directly relevant adjacent backgrounds include TMT and technology investment banking, tech-focused private equity or software buyout, corporate development or corporate VC at a technology company, and consulting with a tech or commercial diligence focus. What matters most is a demonstrable track record of hands-on deal work: screening opportunities, running diligence, and taking a view through to a decision. A network in venture you can already use. This one is non-negotiable. Relationships with GPs, intermediaries such as placement agents and bankers, and other LPs and co-investors, enough to get us access to constrained opportunities, support diligence and track spin-out candidates. You do not need the network of someone twice your experience. You do need a real one, and you will build a much larger one here. Investment judgement you can defend. You form a view on a company and argue it, including the c