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Investment Associate

You will work on a small number of deals a year, and live with each of them long after the cheque clears. Our average holding period across the portfolio is 6.5 years, which changes what diligence is for: you are not underwriting an exit in month thirty, you are deciding whether you still want to be in the board room with these founders in 2033. Some weeks that means the model; some weeks it means the airport.

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Team
Investment & Ventures APAC, 7 people
Reports to
Investment Director, APAC
Travel
Roughly 40% — Greater China, Southeast Asia and Japan

What you will do

  • 1Run diligence end to end — commercial, financial, and the questions the data room quietly left out
  • 2Build the investment case and the model underneath it, then defend both to the investment committee in Stockholm
  • 3Cover the region for opportunities, including good companies that are not raising yet and will not be for two years
  • 4Stay with portfolio companies after closing — capital is the smaller half of the contribution; the larger half is board work, hiring and the first difficult scaling curve
  • 5Write down why we passed, keep the list, and go back to it when the market proves us wrong

What we are looking for

  • Four to seven years in growth equity, venture, investment banking or corporate development
  • You can build an operating model from a messy data pack, not only pressure-test one someone else built
  • Enough accounting instinct to see when growth is being funded by the balance sheet rather than by customers
  • Written English that survives a committee memo — in this job you will write considerably more than you present
  • The temperament for a long-hold mandate: we close a handful of deals a year, and anyone who measures themselves in deal count will find it slow

Nice to have

  • Mandarin or Cantonese — not a requirement, but it decides how many conversations happen with you in the room
  • Time spent inside an operating company during a scaling phase, rather than only watching one from outside
  • Sector depth in industrial technology, logistics or healthcare services

How hiring works

  1. 01

    Application review

    We read everything ourselves. You will hear back within ten working days either way.

  2. 02

    Intro conversation

    Forty-five minutes with someone from the APAC team, about deals you have worked on and what you actually did on them.

  3. 03

    Investment case

    You take a company from the pile we passed on, form a view, and we argue about it for ninety minutes.

  4. 04

    Committee meeting and offer

    Meet the team and one member of the Stockholm committee, then a decision within a week.

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