As a recruitment partner, we are seeking a highly organized Investment & Operations Associate to drive execution, manage investor relations, and support operations of an early-stage venture studio.
Victoria Tech is a defense-focused venture studio bridging battlefield-proven innovation from Ukraine with Western capital and commercialization. The company identifies, validates, and scales mission-critical defense technologies.
Curious to know more about the team? 👉🏼 Read more in the following article.
1️⃣ Investor Relations & Fundraising Support (40%)
- Build & manage investor pipeline (defense VCs, family offices, gov funds).
- Track outreach & follow-ups – coordinate investor meetings & digest insights.
- Maintain & update investor materials (pitch deck, data room, FAQs).
- Prepare post-call action items from leadership discussions.
2️⃣ Venture Studio Operations & Execution (30%)
- Kanban & task management – track leadership priorities & special projects.
- Create structured insights – transform unstructured data into reports, infographics, and ecosystem overviews.
- Track deal flow & startup scouting – manage a database of potential investments.
- Coordinate vendor & contractor communications (legal, marketing, tech partners).
3️⃣ Communications & Ecosystem Engagement (30%)
- Liaise with investors, startups, defense partners, and NATO stakeholders.
- Organize investor briefings & ecosystem events – coordinate logistics & execution.
- Ensure clear investor communication & alignment on studio updates.
📌 Immediate Priority: Raising $5M from LPs and launching the studio’s first investments.
🔹 Ideal Candidate Profile
✔ 3+ years of experience in VC, finance, defense tech, or business development.
✔ Highly organized operator – can track investor & startup relations effectively.
✔ Understands investment pipelines – comfortable with LP outreach & fundraising.
✔ Strategic communicator – can engage investors, defense partners & founders.
✔ Self-starter – thrives in a fast-paced, high-stakes startup environment.
✔ Background in venture capital, defense startups, or government procurement.
✔ Experience with military stakeholders, NATO, or government grant programs.
📌 Why Join Victoria Tech?
- Be at the center of launching a first-of-its-kind defense venture studio.
- Work directly with top investors, military leaders & startup founders.
- Fast career growth with leadership potential.
🚀 This is a high-impact opportunity for someone who thrives in early-stage, mission-driven environments.
- Build open and honest relationship – we strive to create strong relationships between all our members so that everyone feels comfortable to contribute in every way they can. This allows us to have a diversity of ideas, opinions, and viewpoints that give us a better chance of succeeding and making a positive impact as a company.
- Be Creative and Open-Minded – it’s important to take risks and embrace your creativity. You may end up making mistakes, but if you don’t make any mistakes, that only means that you haven’t taken any risks. We don’t want to be complacent – we want to aim for more.
- Always grow and learn – we believe that everyone should be constantly trying to grow from a personal and professional standpoint. By pushing our employees to unlock their full potential, we’ll help them achieve a greater level of fulfillment.
- Do More with Less – by doing more with less, we mean that there’s always room for improvements and often for improvement is not much needed.
- Treat others the same way you want to be treated – we’ve learning to take nothing for granted. It’s important to stay humble, carry ourselves with quiet confidence, and treat others the same way that we want to be treated.
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