Investment Analyst, Intern
Talisman
About the Role
- Work directly with the Founder and Managing Partner and alongside the senior investment and operating team.
- Gain exposure to the full investment lifecycle, from discovering companies and evaluating opportunities to Investment Committee work and supporting portfolio companies.
- Join while Vehicle I is being built, providing exposure to how an investment platform is created from the ground up.
Key Responsibilities
- Source opportunities, build market maps, and identify emerging categories across sport, technology, and culture.
- Analyze business models, financials, markets, founders, competitors, valuations, and return potential.
- Develop investment memos and materials for Investment Committee discussions.
- Contribute to developing investment theses related to the sports economy, including AI, performance technology, direct-to-fan commerce, women's sports, ticketing, prediction markets, and emerging categories.
- Support portfolio companies on commercial strategy, partnerships, international expansion, follow-on capital, and potential exit pathways.
- Gain exposure to portfolio construction, investment processes, LP strategy, co-investment, and building an institutional investment platform.
Qualifications
- Intellectual horsepower, curiosity, and judgment.
- An exceptional undergraduate, postgraduate, or recent graduate.
- Analytical, numerate, and comfortable with financial modelling.
- Strong researcher and clear writer.
- Commercially curious about why businesses succeed or fail.
- Interested in venture capital, technology, AI, and company building.
- Comfortable figuring things out without a playbook.
- Globally minded and ambitious.
Experience in VC, PE, investment banking, consulting, or startups is valuable, but not essential.
A serious interest in sport helps; thinking commercially about sport is more important than being a sports fan.