Job Description
The Nascent venture team is on the hunt for a new team member to help research, identify, and source investment opportunities in promising early-stage crypto products and protocols. Working directly with our Co-Founder, the Investment Analyst will play a critical role in tracking technical and market developments, developing investment theses, stewarding and managing relationships, conducting diligence and technical analysis, and providing hands-on post-investment support. If you can go from 0 to 1 in understanding a problem and identifying the process and frameworks to analyze and form a technically-oriented perspective, we want to meet you.
This is an opportunity to make a direct impact on the bottom line of a crypto-native multi-strategy firm with a strong VC presence, engineering organization, and liquid trading operation. This may be the right opportunity for you if you're a scrappy and dynamic human with the hunger to learn and drive to win as crypto becomes an integral part of global infrastructure.
Requirements
- You are an action-oriented and scrappy builder and can deliver results in a dynamic workflow
- You are an early adopter who is constantly experimenting with new products and tools, including crypto, AI, consumer, and professional
- You have demonstrated ability to produce written content, whether short-form or long-form, and engage with people with differing viewpoints
- You have a futuristic mindset and can ingest, synthesize, and form a viewpoint on swiftly moving horizons, opportunities, and trends
- You are a crypto-native autonomous learner with the ability to shift from a wide topline view into deep technical details
- Previous experience rapidly analyzing and synthesizing deeply technical information and forming and communicating a compelling perspective
- Proven capability in relevant expertise areas, such as network infrastructure, protocol design, cryptography, finance, social, consumer tech, etc
- Experience developing financial models and landscape analyses
- Adept user of multiple LLMs, who would feel deeply disempowered if you could no longer use them