Applications close: 11:55pm, 12th Mar 2025 AEDT
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This role doesn’t require a track record. It’s designed for someone hungry, not proven, and excited for the chance to apply their uni courses to real investment transactions. 

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We don't need you to have a formal background in investment or law, but it'd be great if you're interested in or know a bit about venture capital investing.

This role will give you the opportunity to…

🧠 rapidly build your investment diligence knowledge and execute on deals,
🌏 be involved in the end-to-end process of raising and deploying investment funds,
🚀 help us find and invest in the next generational startup, and
🧑 work at the centre of the startup ecosystem.

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Startmate is the epicentre of startup ambition in Australia and New Zealand and exists to make ANZ the best place in the world to build a startup. We see over 1,000 startups every year and are the most active early-stage investor in ANZ.

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One of the core pillars of this vision is to build a thriving community of investors in ANZ and empower them to believe in and back the next generation of early stage founders via our investment funds. This is the pillar that you will help us build.

📆 Applications close: EOD Weds March 12, 2025

💰 Salary: $34 per hour

✏️ Fixed term: 6 months at 2 days per week with scope to increase to 3 days. The role will commence mid-late April and conclude around 4 November. 

🌆 Location: Sydney or Melbourne (preference for Sydney)

🤝 Reporting to: Jason Fang, Head of Finance

• Get shit done: you’re an execution machine and love tearing through a to-do list. You can juggle many different tasks at once without getting overwhelmed.
• Attention to detail: you’re detail oriented, can stick to a process, and consistently push to produce high quality work.
• ‍Collaboration and teamwork: you thrive working in a highly collaborative environment with shared goals and plenty of feedback.

Role Scope: Your Responsibilities

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N.B. you will receive training and support in the following areas.

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1. Investment Diligence
   
   1. Description:
      
      1. As deals materialise in the pipeline, you will prepare an internal investment checklist, seek approval from our Investment Committee (IC) on the deal and assist Startmate’s external lawyers to get the deal closed.
      2. Please note, you aren’t expected to have a legal background as our external lawyers will be running the legal process end-to-end, but an understanding of or interest in venture capital investing does help.
   2. Examples:
      
      1. Collate documentation from the investee company’s data room.
      2. Complete the Startmate investment checklist to a high standard.
      3. Run police, bankruptcy and anti-money laundering checks on the investee company and founders. 

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2. Fundraising Execution
   
   1. Description:
      
      1. You will complete the investor onboarding process for the Accelerator Fund. 
      2. You will be responsible for using Passthrough, Salesforce and AirTable to ensure our records are accurate. 
      3. Follow up with leads in the pipeline so that they can be onboarded as investors. 
   2. Examples:
      
      1. Ensure investors meet regulatory requirements in order to invest.
      2. Help investors set up their investor portal account. 

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3. Investor Reporting
   
   1. Description: 
      
      1. You will help deliver investor reporting to Startmate’s underlying investors. 
      2. You will help our team collate portfolio data so that our Finance Team can accurately value the portfolio companies in our Funds. 
   2. Examples:
      
      1. Assist with collating and distilling valuation data from Startmate’s 200+ portfolio companies.
      2. Draft and review investor communications to our 500+ investors. 
      3. Produce an annual investor update for each of Startmate’s 26 Funds.

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We’re making Australia and New Zealand the best place in the world to build a startup. We’re achieving that through building a platform that unleashes startup ambition and accelerates exceptional companies.

At our core, we’re a community of the most ambitious founders, operators and investors propelled by a highly-trusted mentor-driven community, and backed by the best angels, venture funds and tech startups in the region.

Over the past decade we have invested in 170+ startups, with a combined value of $2 billion.