VC Analyst @ Nascent in San Francisco, CA

VC Stack; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

VC Stack in San Francisco is looking for an Investment Analyst to join their venture team. This role involves researching and identifying early-stage crypto investment opportunities, building relationships with founders and engineers, and preparing deal memos.

The ideal candidate will have a strong analytical mindset and excellent communication skills, with a passion for technology and investment in the dynamic crypto ecosystem.

Qualifications

• Demonstrated ability to produce engaging written content.
• Experience in analyzing rapidly evolving technical information.
• Ability to adapt from broad concepts to specific details in technology.

Responsibilities

• Research and evaluate technical projects in crypto.
• Build relationships to source venture deals.
• Manage the venture funnel and communications.
• Prepare deal memos and coordinate feedback.
• Support portfolio companies through resource development.

Skills

Analytical mindset

Ability to synthesize technical information

Relationship building

Written communication

Tech-savvy (crypto, AI)

Tools

Financial modeling

Large Language Models (LLMs)

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.

Responsibilities

• Researching, exploring, and evaluating bleeding edge technical projects and developing a perspective on new market frontiers
• Build relationships to identify and source venture deals within ecosystem (e.g., founders, engineers, researchers, investors)
• Steward the venture funnel: manage communication, action items, follow up, and meetings from first touch to closing
• Prepare deal memos for high potential investment opportunities and coordinate team members through feedback process
• Bring a strong analytical mindset to contribute to developing investment theses and analyzing ecosystem verticals
• Supporting the venture team to deliver high‑impact support for our portfolio, including identifying needs, developing resources, facilitating partnership introductions, sourcing candidates, etc

About You

• 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

Preferred Experience

• 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

About Nascent

Founded in 2020, Nascent exists to build, expand, and capture opportunity, in open markets and permissionless technologies. Building from a base of permanent capital, we deploy assets across a range of both liquid and long‑term strategies that ensure we are among the most active users of the open financial system we are helping to build. We’ve made venture investments in 100+ early‑stage teams that we believe have the potential to create substantive change, expand boundaries, and find new horizons. We are consistently on the hunt for the most competitive and curious minds exploring the edges of the crypto ecosystem and leverage our hyper flexible structure to accelerate ideas into fully deployed strategies.

Our Team & Culture

At Nascent, we are an interdisciplinary team of investors, builders & creators, capable of achieving more together than we can as individuals. We offer the opportunity to contribute to building the future global economic system with a world‑class team and culture that pairs the freedom to explore, experiment & play with a competitive drive to win. We invest in our people by providing the autonomy to build, coupled with accountability & honest feedback to help learn, grow, perform & win. Our distributed team understands the value of in‑person time—we host two team retreats per year and encourage team members to come together for more frequent in‑person work.