Position: Analyst

Organization: Villgro 

Location: Chennai

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Job Responsibilities:

As an Analyst at Villgro, your role will include evaluating startup applications, conducting diligence and post-funding, evangelizing SISF’s portfolio companies. Details of how your role will shape up are below:

● Pipeline Management You will actively support the investment committee in sourcing, evaluating, and performing preliminary assessment of companies discovered through the Startup India portal.

● Portfolio | Championing incubatee success SISFS is a target oriented startup investment & incubation program and this will include support during portfolio reviews, diagnostic panels, organization reviews, etc. You might be required to provide data driven inputs for portfolio companies to make them successful. This could be competitor analysis, key areas of collaboration and downstream funding opportunities

● Knowledge Management As part of the incubation process, you might analyze sector trends, study impact created, and market or funding trends.

If the role excites you, we would like you to:

● Have a bachelor’s degree

● To have 1-2 years of experience. While we focus a lot on your learning at the workplace, we would prefer some experience:

○ as an analyst at a consulting or an investment firm or

○ as a professional at a foundation, bi/multilateral organizations

○ at a social impact operating organization

● Have a strong command of Microsoft PPT, Excel and Word

● Have the ability / eagerness to use data and gain insights in an effective manner.

● Be an excellent multi-tasker and be able to prioritise various tasks. We reiterate- we are a small team and we thrive on collaboration and cross learnings.

● Proactive in learning new things and applying the same on the job.

● Be agile and flourish in a fast moving, entrepreneurial environment, whilst maintaining attention to detail and delivering quality work

● Have an inclination towards / interest in social impact and a belief in the ability of market based models to alleviate poverty.