Remote Deal Origination Research Associate

Initio Capital; Phoenix (AZ); On-site; USD 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work

Flexible projects

Job summary

Initio Capital is seeking a Deal Origination Research Associate for a remote, flexible position. You will identify promising markets, companies, products, operators, and investment opportunities, turning ambiguous information into structured analysis and actionable recommendations.

You will work across business, finance, technology, and strategy topics, building target lists and pipelines while supporting multiple projects with a commercially curious mindset.

Qualifications

• Analytical mindset with ability to turn rough data into clear conclusions.
• Experience assessing markets, companies, business models, and investment themes.
• Ability to build concise recommendations and prioritized target lists.

Responsibilities

• Identify promising markets, companies, products, operators, and opportunities.
• Create target lists, market maps, competitive scans, and opportunity pipelines.
• Analyze data from documents, websites, interviews and public sources for concise recommendations.
• Support strategy, sourcing, diligence, product, growth, finance and operations projects.

Skills

Analytical thinking

Market research

Synthesis of ambiguous information

Commercial curiosity

Job description

Initio Capital is seeking a Deal Origination Research Associate for a remote, flexible position. You will identify promising markets, companies, products, operators, and investment opportunities, turning ambiguous information into structured analysis and actionable recommendations.

You will work across business, finance, technology, and strategy topics, building target lists and pipelines while supporting multiple projects with a commercially curious mindset.