Associate, Venture and Growth Equity

Hamilton Lane; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 135,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare coverage

Wellness program

Tuition reimbursement

Family benefits

Stock purchase plan

Job summary

Hamilton Lane, a global leader in private markets, seeks an Associate in the Venture and Growth Equity Team based in London. You will assist deal leaders with sourcing, evaluating and managing venture and growth equity opportunities across funds, co-investments and secondaries.

The role includes portfolio management support, client communication and business development back-up, with up to 20% travel. 3–5 years’ related experience and strong analytics are essential.

Qualifications

• Must-haves: 3-5 years’ of related experience.
• Strong interest in venture and technology investing.
• Excellent knowledge of analytics and qualitative factors crucial to venture and growth equity investment diligence.
• Undergraduate degree required.
• Thorough knowledge of Excel (modeling skills), Word, PowerPoint, and Outlook.
• Demonstrated interest in learning and responsibly applying approved AI tools to support research, analysis, and workflow improvement.
• Strong communication and relationship building skills.
• Strong initiative and independent performance are imperative.
• Ability to present and defend opinions and investment theses.

Responsibilities

• Support venture and growth equity investments, including funds, co-investments and secondaries.
• Conduct due diligence with financial analysis, market research, and competitive assessments.
• Lead due diligence meetings with General Partners and management teams.
• Prepare investment memos and presentations for decision-making.
• Sourcing new opportunities and managing the investment pipeline.
• Monitor existing investments and analyze financial reports.
• Prepare and present client materials.
• Manage day-to-day communication with General Partners.
• Assist in training Analysts.
• Oversee special projects like industry analyses and market studies.

Skills

Venture investing

Growth equity investing

Financial analysis

Due diligence

Communication

Education

Undergraduate degree

Tools

Excel

PowerPoint

Job description

Join Hamilton Lane, a global leader in private markets, as we scale to meet the demands of our growing client base. Here, you’ll work with ambitious, high‑performing teams built on integrity, candor and collaboration, backed by our market-leading data and technology. We invest heavily in our people and our partners, giving you the platform to enrich lives, safeguard futures and grow your career.

What We Do

As one of the largest private markets investment firms globally, we provide innovative solutions to institutional and private wealth investors around the world, specializing in flexibility and full-spectrum access. We currently employ approximately 800 professionals operating in offices throughout North America, Europe, Asia Pacific and the Middle East, and have $1.0 trillion in assets under management and supervision, composed of $146.1 billion in discretionary assets and $871.5 billion in non-discretionary assets, as of December 31, 2025.

The Opportunity

Hamilton Lane is seeking an Associate within our Venture and Growth Equity Team, based in the London office and focused on covering Europe and Israel. In this role, you will assist the deal leaders in sourcing, evaluating and managing venture and growth equity investment opportunities (funds, co-investments and secondaries). The role will also include aspects of portfolio management, client communication and business development support.

Your Responsibilities

• Support all aspects of venture and growth equity investments, including funds, co-investments and secondaries.
• Conduct thorough due diligence on potential investment opportunities, including financial analysis, market research, and competitive assessments.
• Take a meaningful role in leading due diligence meetings with General Partners and management teams.
• Prepare detailed investment memos and presentations to support decision-making process.
• Assist in sourcing new investment opportunities and managing investment pipeline.
• Support the management of existing investments by monitoring performance, analyzing financial reports and tracking updates.
• Assist in preparing and presenting client materials.
• Manage day to day communication with General Partners.
• Assist in the management and training of Analysts.
• Oversee special projects including, but not limited to, industry analyses, specific geographical studies, marketing materials and strategic deployment plans.
• Stay current with industry news, emerging technologies, and market dynamics to provide actionable insights.

Your Background Requirements

• Must-haves: 3-5 years’ of related experience.
• Strong interest in venture and technology investing.
• Excellent knowledge of, and demonstrated experience with, analytics and qualitative factors crucial to venture and growth equity investment diligence.
• Undergraduate degree required.
• Thorough knowledge of Excel (modeling skills), Word, PowerPoint, and Outlook.
• Demonstrated interest in learning and responsibly applying approved AI tools to support research, analysis, and workflow improvement.
• Strong communication and relationship building skills.
• Strong initiative and independent performance are imperative.
• Ability to present and defend opinions and investment theses.

Nice-to-haves

• Prior experience in underwriting funds, co-investments and/or secondary transactions.
• Multilingual abilities relevant to primary European/Israel markets.

Travel Requirements

Up to 20%

Benefits

At Hamilton Lane, our benefits philosophy is simple: to provide our employees with a competitive suite of benefits and services to help navigate through the complexities and challenges of working, living, raising a family, and eventually retiring.

To do this, Hamilton Lane offers the following benefits:

• Enhancing Your Physical and Emotional Health Employees have access to healthcare coverage, mental health resources, health & fitness reimbursement program, and Wellness Rewards Program.
• Developing Your Career Tuition and certification reimbursement programs are available, along with continual education and development trainings for you to grow with Hamilton Lane.
• Supporting Your Family & Community For our communities, Hamilton Lane provides paid time off to volunteer and compensates for referring qualified candidates that join our team. For growing family, we offer an adoption reimbursement program, paid time off for new parents and newlyweds, and provide travel support for nursing parents.
• Safeguarding Your Financial Wellbeing Hamilton Lane contributes to retirement programs and offers an employee stock purchasing plan.

As a registered investment adviser, employees of Hamilton Lane may be subject to certain limitations on political contribution and personal investment activities.

Hamilton Lane is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will be considered for employment without regard to their race, religion, ancestry, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, disability, marital status, domestic partner status, or medical condition.

We’re a firm that takes our responsibility of helping clients reach their investment objectives seriously. But we’re also a group that appreciates a healthy dose of wit and sarcasm, as well as a company that recognizes the value of infusing joy into what we do every day. There’s a genuine spirit of collaboration and camaraderie here, and an unwavering commitment to doing right by our clients and by one another. We believe we have some of the most committed, intelligent and innovative professionals in the industry. They also happen to be pretty nice people who genuinely enjoy working with one another. So we have that going for us, which is nice.

As an employer who participates in the federal E‑Verify program, Hamilton Lane will provide the Social Security Administration (SSA) and, if necessary, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), with information from each employee’s Form I‑9 to confirm work authorization. If the Government cannot confirm that you are authorized to work, the Company is required to provide you written instructions and an opportunity to contact SSA and/or DHS, so that you can resolve any discrepancies directly with the federal agency.