Investment Manager

 

Investor, Techstars London

Techstars is one of the most active pre-seed investors in the world, backing founders at the very beginning of company building, with over $1B AUM and 25+ unicorns including ClassPass, Remitly, Zipline, SendGrid, and Snyk. Techstars is built on three core beliefs: entrepreneurs create a better future for everyone, collaboration drives innovation, and great ideas can come from anywhere.

We are looking for an Investor to work directly alongside the Managing Director in London. This is a dual investor–operator role combining early-stage investing with hands-on delivery of value for founders through our accelerator program. We're looking for someone with strong builder instincts and investment experience. Founder or early startup experience is a major plus.

Location: London

What You'll Do
1. Find and Back Exceptional Founders

• Build relationships with founders across events, communities, and online platforms.

• Source companies through organic relationships, direct outreach, referrals, and inbound applications.

• Run high-quality diligence across team, market, and product.

• Write clear, rigorous investment memos and support selection decisions.

2. Support Founders Through Fundraising and Beyond

• Partner with founders on pitch decks, data rooms, and investor preparation.

• Build and maintain a strong VC network for follow-on financing and make timely investor introductions.

• Build and manage a high-quality angel network to support early capital needs.

• Stay closely connected to companies post-program, tracking progress and unlocking capital, talent, and partnerships.

• Assess which companies benefit from deeper support and global Techstars opportunities.

3. Run a World-Class Accelerator Experience

• Own and manage the full program calendar, mentor pipelines, workshops, and investor sessions.

• Ensure smooth operations across tools, data, scheduling, and communications.

• Run events, including founder and community events - including a founder kite surfing trip and retreat,

4. Nurture Our Mentor Network

• Proactively build and deepen relationships with high-quality mentors.

• Onboard top operators and exited founders across the European ecosystem.

• Match mentors to companies based on real use-case fit.

• Continuously raise the bar on mentor quality.

You Could Be a Great Fit If You

• Are deeply embedded in founder worlds. You live inside startup communities, not VC circles, and you care more about founder trust than investor status.

• Are deeply tech-curious, hyper-curious by nature, and a structured, analytical thinker. You dive into how things work, explore new products and markets constantly, and use data to guide judgment. A technical background is a bonus.

• Have a builder's instinct. You do not wait for permission. You hustle and are highly resourceful.

• Have prior investment experience via a fund, as an angel, or as a scout.

• Operate with speed as a default. You respond in hours, not days. You bias toward action and iteration over waiting for perfect information.

• Hold a high bar for excellence. You care deeply about the quality of your work, seek feedback, and continuously raise your own standards.

• Are deeply empathetic. You stay calm in ambiguity and can hold founder anxiety without amplifying it.

• Treat this as a vocation, not a job. You do what it takes when it matters and understand that elite founder support does not fit neatly into a 9–5.

• Bring real early-stage experience. You've lived inside the zero-to-one journey as a founder, early employee, operator, scout, or early investor, and you understand fundraising from the inside.

• Are reliable, hyper-organised, and tools-fluent. You do not drop balls. Your systems hold under pressure.

Logistics

• 6+ years of experience across startups, product, engineering, operations, or early-stage investing.

• Comfortable working with senior founders, operators, and investors.

• Comfortable with ambiguity and rapid pace.

• Willing to travel up to 30 percent.

Our Working Philosophy at Techstars

• Founders are the customers.

• Investors are partners.

• Everything else is in service of that.

About Techstars

Techstars is the most active pre-seed investor in the world, having invested through its accelerators in more than 4,800 companies. Founded in 2006, Techstars believes that entrepreneurs create a better future for everyone and that great ideas can come from anywhere. Our mission is to invest in an unprecedented number of startups each year, enabling more capital to flow to more entrepreneurs globally. We operate accelerator programs and venture capital funds, and connect startups, investors, corporations, and cities to build thriving startup communities.

Techstars is an affirmative action, equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, sex, age, national origin, religion, disability, marital status, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, or any other protected status.

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