The Early - 7th Edition

Hi all! Hope everyone’s had a great start to the week 😊 As always, thank you all for following and for checking out our job board!

💹 Here’s what we have for today:

• New VC Roles This Week 💫 

• Market Mapping Example: Software for Hardware Design 🤖 

• Preview: Interview w/ Ryan Chandra (Investor @ Accenture) 🤩 

• Poll: Submit a Question for Ryan 💭 

• ICYMI: Non-Linear Paths to VC w/ Sammie Hasen 😍 

• Resources 📝 

• Refer a Friend 🙂 

• Say Hi 👋 

P.S. Congrats to Kim for winning the gift card challenge! 🙂

New VC Roles This Week 💫 

Internships 🤓 

• Accelerator Intern @ Plug In Ventures - Apply Here

• Summer Associate @ Selva Ventures (Los Angeles, CA) - Apply Here

• Investment Analyst Intern @ Tencent (Palo Alto, CA) - Apply Here

• Venture Investment Intern @ Niterra North America (Santa Clara, CA) - Apply Here

Analyst Roles 😍 

• Venture Analyst @ Vulpes Ventures - Apply Here

• Venture & Ecosystem Operations Analyst @ Mission BioCapital (Bay Area, CA) - Apply Here

• Investment Analyst @ MacCap Venture Capital (London, UK) - Apply Here

• Ventures Analyst @ MongoDB (San Francisco, CA) - Apply Here

• Junior Software Investor @ Headline (Bay Area, CA) - Apply Here

Associate/Senior Associate 😄 

• Venture Associate @ Vulpes Ventures - Apply Here

• Associate @ Berkeley Frontier Fund (Berkeley, CA) - Apply Here

• Ventures Associate @ Qualcomm (Santa Clara, CA) - Apply Here

• Senior Associate @ Next47 (Palo Alto, CA - Hybrid) - Apply Here

• Associate @ Gold House Ventures (Bay Area, CA or New York, NY) - Apply Here

• Ventures Associate @ MongoDB (San Francisco, CA) - Apply Here

• Technical Associate - Energy Systems @ Lowercarbon Capital (San Francisco, CA) - Apply Here

Operational Roles 🤠 

• Chief of Staff, Investment Ops @ Lowercarbon Capital (Los Angeles, CA) - Apply Here

• Operations Associate @ Antler (Sydney, NSW) - Apply Here

• Ops & Data Intern @ Antler (London, UK) - Apply Here

• Program Manager, Mobility @ Plug and Play (Sunnyvale, CA) - Apply Here

Roles Still Open From Last Week 🏃‍♀️ 

• Junior Analyst, Climate @ Better Bite Ventures (New Zealand - Remote) - Apply Here

• VC Analyst @ Concentric (London, UK) - Apply Here

• Summer 2024 Investment Listener Intern @ Listen Ventures (Chicago, IL) - Apply Here by first week of March

• Summer 2024 Platform Listener Intern @ Listen Ventures (Chicago, IL) - Apply Here by first week of March

• Summer 2024 Consumer Insights Intern @ Listen Ventures (Chicago, IL) - Apply Here by first week of March

• Summer Associate @ F-Prime Capital (Boston, MA) - Apply Here

• Deep Tech Investment Intern @ Photon Ventures (Netherlands - Hybrid) - Apply Here

• Technical Associate @ Lowercarbon Capital (Boston, MA) - Apply Here

• Venture Intern @ The Tech Buzz (US, Remote) - Apply Here 

• Analyst @ StartFast Ventures (Remote) - Apply Here

• VC Analyst @ Griffin Gaming Partners (Los Angeles, CA) - Apply Here 

❗️ Note that many VC roles are posted without application deadlines and filled on a rolling basis - if you see one you like, I’d recommend applying within a week, or as soon as possible!

Market Mapping: Software for Hardware Design Blog 🤖 

I’ve gotten a few questions about how to map out markets as an investor, and wanted to share a blog that I recently co-authored, focused on the software for hardware design market.

Today, hardware is still being designed using inefficient, bulky tools that are >20 years old - interestingly, the space hasn’t seen the same innovation as the software development industry. Our team is convinced that the hardware design space is ready for a new wave of tools, and decided to write a piece to map out the market. 🚀 

The market mapping process includes:

1) Identifying a specific trend in an investable area for our firm. This usually starts by identifying a $5B+ market with significant pain points and customers asking for new solutions.

2) Speaking with experts in the space to better understand existing pain points and opportunity areas. In this case, we spoke with tons of hardware designers, supply chain leads, and engineers.

3) Familiarizing ourselves with the capabilities of existing solutions and where they’re falling short.  

4) Identifying as many startups as we can find that are tackling the space in a new way and solving the pain points we identified earlier.

5) Segmenting the landscape of existing startups based on their technology, approach, specific use cases, etc. In this case, we segmented the market based on each startup’s place in the hardware design value chain.

6) Identifying startups whose missions and approaches align with our investment thesis in the space to consider as potential investments.

I’m considering writing a more in-depth piece on this in a future post - is this something you’d be interested in? Let me know below 🙂 

This Week: Interview with Ryan Chandra👏 

I’m so excited to announce our guest for Episode #2 of the Early interview series! 🎉 I’ll be chatting with my friend Ryan Chandra, a fellow Cardinal alum and early-career VC at Accenture Ventures. Ryan graduated from Stanford in 2021, and began his career as a consultant at Accenture. He later transitioned to a VC role within Accenture’s venture arm. He’s one of <10 members of Accenture’s investments team - out of 100k total Accenture employees! 😱 

Ask Ryan a question here 💭 

Poll: Submit a Question for Ryan 💭 

ICYMI: Last Week’s Interview w/ Sammie Hasen 👈️ 

Last week, I chatted with Sammie Hasen (VC @ TechNexus) about founding a company in college, working at Goldman Sachs, and her day-to-day as an early-career VC.

Read key takeaways from our full conversation here, or watch the recording 🙂 

Resources 📝 

• Check out Soapbox, one of my favorite newsletters focused on career, culture, and capital 🙌 

• Also check out NextGen’s newsletter, geared towards the next generation of leaders in venture capital 💪 

Refer a Friend 👭 

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Say Hi! 👋 

And that’s all for this week! You can find me on LinkedIn, Instagram, and X. As always, feel free to reach out to [email protected] with any questions and/or feedback. I’d love to hear from you!🙂 

-Mic