About Signal Ventures: Signal Ventures is the venture and strategic investment arm of The Signal Group. The team invests in early-stage technology companies across maritime, logistics, and commodities. Our portfolio includes more than twenty investments and three incubated projects, with successful exits including OilX and DeepSea.
About the role:
Shipping remains one of the world’s most complex and under-digitized sectors - a space where data and AI can make a profound difference. In an era defined by global disruptions, from sanctions to supply chain challenges, innovation in this field directly shapes how the world moves goods and commodities. At Signal Ventures, we look for people eager to explore this vast, often overlooked domain, and to help build technologies that bring clarity, efficiency, and intelligence to maritime commerce and global trade.
We are looking for an analyst to help source, assess and execute early-stage investments across the markets we cover. The role sits in a small team and reports directly to the SVP of Technology Ventures. You will take ownership of the deal flow process, support detailed diligence work and contribute to supporting founders in our portfolio. As you grow in the role, you will have the opportunity to take on increasing responsibility within the Ventures team.
We value clear thinking and constructive challenge. Our ideal candidate will be comfortable forming & justifying independent views, testing assumptions and contributing to open discussion across the team.
Responsibilities
- Deal flow management: Review inbound opportunities, assess their fit with our investment thesis and summarise recommendations.
- Due diligence: Contribute to commercial, financial and technical diligence, including market analysis, competitor reviews, financial assessment and evaluation of product and business model.
- Financial modelling and analysis: Build and maintain robust financial models, support valuation work, and help frame upside, risk, and scenario outcomes.
- Investment materials: Prepare investment memoranda and supporting analysis for internal decision making.
- Industry research: Track developments in shipping, logistics and commodities identify emerging themes, and surface areas of interest that can shape our investment roadmap.
Requirements
- You are intellectually curious and imaginative, able to see angles others miss and bring a differentiated perspective to problems and markets.
- You understand and care about the venture ecosystem: you actively follow startup news, funding rounds, and technology trends through reading, podcasts, and events.
- You demonstrate strong ownership: you take responsibility without needing close direction and care deeply about the quality, pace, and impact of your work and that of the team around you.
- You are highly analytical and quantitative, with the ability to quickly grasp new concepts and spot insights others overlook, whether proven through your academic background, experience in consulting or investing, technical projects, or other paths.
- Bachelor’s degree in economics, engineering, computer science, or a related field; a master’s degree is a plus.
- At least 3 years of experience in venture capital, investment management, or a related field (such as strategy consulting with a technology focus), or significant experience in early-stage technology startups; founder or operator experience is a strong plus.
- Nice to have: familiarity with the shipping, logistics, or commodities sectors Experience in financial modeling and data analysis
Benefits
- Generous compensation with additional performance incentives.
- Coverage under the company’s collective health insurance plan.
- Opportunity to work alongside experienced people with deep knowledge in software engineering, data science & shipping business who are always eager to mentor.
- A flexible Hybrid Work setup (with 9 days per month in the office for connectedness and team bonding).
- 2-4 weeks of onboarding training to prepare you for your new role, having the opportunity to meet about 30 trainers/leaders while diving deep into our products and/or the shipping world.
- Career growth opportunities and a structured development and performance review process.
- Personal learning budget for training, seminars, conferences (750 to 2000 EUR annually depending on seniority).
- Regular team bonding events and activities.
Strict adherence to Confidentiality, Intellectual Property and Non-Compete provisions is expected.
All applications will be considered under the terms and conditions of confidentiality in accordance with the regulations of personal data protection.
We are an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace. At Signal, we believe that diversity of opinions, approaches and viewpoints is key to our innovation and success and we encourage that with our hiring, development and rewards practices. We prohibit discrimination and harassment of any kind based on race, color, sex, religion, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, genetic information, pregnancy, or any other protected characteristics by law and take actions to eliminate those from our workplace.
