Description:
We are looking for an Investment Associate who wants to be close to the edge of industrial disruption: meeting exceptional founders, pressure-testing breakthrough technologies, mapping emerging markets, and helping Canadian companies scale into global category leaders. This is a highly analytical, founder-facing role for someone with curiosity, rigour, speed, and strong commercial judgment.
CHALLENGES TO BE MET
Source and Shape the Pipeline
- Build conviction on emerging industrial technology markets and identify companies before they are obvious
- Develop relationships with founders, investors, operators, researchers, and strategic partners across the ecosystem
- Maintain sharp market maps, sector theses, founder lists, and deal-tracking tools that help the fund move with speed and discipline
Evaluate Breakthrough Companies
- Assess startups across market size, product differentiation, customer value, go-to-market, team quality, business model, cap table, and exit potential
- Run diligence workstreams including customer calls, expert interviews, founder sessions, technical reviews, financial modeling, and investment memo preparation
- Turn complex technical and commercial inputs into clear, decision-ready investment recommendations
Support Portfolio Companies
What We Are Looking For
Your Background
- 4+ years of experience in venture capital, private equity, investment banking, consulting, corporate strategy, corporate development, a technology startup, or an industrial/technical operating role
- Strong analytical foundation, ideally supported by a degree in commerce, economics, science, technology, engineering, mathematics, or a related field
- Comfort with financial modeling, market research, customer discovery, technical diligence, and synthesizing ambiguity into clear recommendations
Your Edge
- You are intellectually curious and excited by hard industrial problems, technical founders, and markets where adoption is difficult but impact is massive
- You can engage confidently with founders, executives, investors, operators, customers, and technical experts
- You communicate crisply, write clearly, and can make complex technologies understandable to investment and executive audiences
- You are proactive, resourceful, low-ego, and energized by fast-moving, high-ambiguity environments
- Technical skills, operating experience in an industrial sector, and bilingualism in French and English are assets