Business Development Associate

About the Role

AGC Partners is a global technology investment bank advising emerging growth companies on middle-market M&A and growth equity financings. This position is a mix of business development and research.

Key Responsibilities

• Identify growth-stage companies and research key trends within the emerging technology market to source potential clients.
• Manage and maintain AGC’s Partner pipelines.
• Report directly to the CEO.
• Assist in creating and launching bi-weekly sector and sub-sector overviews within the technology market.
• Oversee all content initiatives to drive the firm’s marketing efforts.
• Collaborate with the banking team to drive new leads and engagement with current clients.
• Create in-depth reports on new technologies, covering key trends, challenges, and recent M&A, private placement, and IPO activity.
• Generate leads through direct marketing strategies and research for new opportunities.
• Conduct deep dives into top PE and VC portfolios to identify sell- and buy-side opportunities.
• Build sector and sub-sector overviews, including market overview, market map, past transactions, and potential targets.
• Coordinate launches to relevant CEOs using a tailored cadence.
• Maintain records of contacts, accounts, leads, and opportunities in CRM database (Salesforce).
• Develop and maintain standards, systems, templates, and best practices for content.
• Leverage market data to develop content themes/topics and find third-party research to support theses.
• Create Transaction Screens and find Transaction Comps.
• Build Market Maps and Technology Landscapes.

Requirements & Tech Stack

• Salesforce (CRM database)

Qualifications

• Recent graduate with a strong academic record.
• Passion for technology and a close eye on industry news and the latest M&A activity.
• Strong research, writing, and organizational skills.
• Self-starter comfortable working at a fast pace alongside senior bankers.
• Writer, editor, and content strategist with best practices in grammar, messaging, writing, and style.
• High level of comfort leading conversations and preparing presentations and marketing materials.
• Motivated and tenacious individual with a passion for sales and uncovering/overcoming objectives.
• Comfortable working in a fast-paced dynamic environment with a high sense of urgency.