Analyst Early Stage Investment Team (m/f/d) - Berlin, Munich, LondonHV Capital is one of Europe's largest generalist VCs.
We invest from pre-seed through growth, across SaaS, fintech, deep tech, and beyond.
This is a seat inside the investment team, working directly with partners on sourcing, diligence, and portfolio support.
What you'll actually work onFinding the next companies before anyone else does.
Building market maps in sectors we're excited.
Talking to founders, customers, and competitors.
Building the model, not just filling in someone else's template.
Stress-testing a business case instead of taking the deck at face value.
Writing memos that make a case a partner would actually defend in an investment committee.
Forming your own view, and holding it.
We're still making bets on people as much as products, and that means judgment: reading a founder, reading a room, deciding whether you'd trust this person with your own money.
That's a muscle, not a checklist.
Sitting in the room, eventually.
Partner meetings and deal reviews once you've earned it; not to run them, but to watch how a real investment decision actually gets made, and to have a sharp, well-formed view ready when someone asks for yours.
Portfolio support.
The odd KPI request, board-prep question, or research ask from a founder who needs a sharp answer fast, not a polished deck in two weeks.
What good looks like hereWe evaluate analysts on judgment and reasoning (can you form an independent view and defend it under pushback), commercial acumen (do you actually understand what makes a business work), deal execution (can you run a process end to end from sourcing, modeling, diligence to closing support), and how you show up in the room.
Chasing a thread nobody.