Flex Capital is a $200 million seed-stage venture fund. We’re capital for founders by founders. Our three general partners are serial entrepreneurs: Tod Sacerdoti (BrightRoll, Pipedream), Auren Hoffman (LiveRamp, SafeGraph), and Paul Johnson (Lemonaid Health).
Our goal is to empower the next generation of founders and iconic companies by being the most impactful early-stage investor on their cap table. We view founders as peers, not investments, and build long-term partnerships spanning decades.
Flex has been fortunate to back companies such as Angellist, Applovin, Bolt.new, Chime, CodeRabbit, Datavant, Mercury, Perplexity, Replit, Vercel and many more.
Job Description:
We are seeking a Principal to join our investment team based in San Francisco. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in fast paced environments, an affinity for emerging technologies, and a propensity to building relationships. You will be responsible for finding the absolute best founders at the earliest stages. You don’t need investing experience but you need to love technology.
This is an immersive full-stack investor role, reporting directly to the General Partners at the firm with mentorship from the existing investing team.
Responsibilities:
Sourcing: Identify high-potential investment opportunities centered around the latest technology trends. Relentlessly build relationships with founders, investors and accelerators.
Investing: Help us execute our seed at scale strategy by finding and meeting talented founders, diligencing opportunities, preparing investment analyses and managing your deals end-to-end.
Building the Flex Brand: Host and attend local events. You will represent Flex in the Bay Area and will be instrumental in attracting the best founders to Flex.
Supporting Founders: Build relationships with Flex founders building companies in the Bay Area.
You Should Apply If You Are:
Analytical & Curious: We invest at the earliest of stages, when there’s minimal proof points and high ambiguity. You’ll have to be thorough and rigorous in your thinking and approach to what makes founders and startups great.
Highly Ambitious: This is a highly demanding and fast paced role and will require hosting and attending events during nights and weekends.
A Community Builder: You thrive on bringing people together and are energized by hosting dinners, events, and creating introductions that lead to real outcomes.
Low Ego, High Standard: You set a high bar for yourself and your teammates, but you care more about getting to the truth than being right.
Committed to San Francisco: You want to live and work in San Francisco because you want to be at the center of the best ecosystem for entrepreneurs in the world.
You Shouldn’t Apply If:
“Being a venture capitalist” is more exciting than doing great, important work
You need a highly predictable and comfortable work schedule
Don’t care about how the future of technology will evolve
Want to fully work from home
Are pessimistic
Qualifications:
5+ years of experience in fast-paced analytical environments including startups, accelerator, incubator, venture capital, banking
Track record of community or relationship building
Exceptional written and communication skills
People you have worked with put you in the top 1% of people they have worked with
You are an A-Player and only want to work with A-Players
You push everyone who works with you to move faster, and you enable them to move fast
You are a “yes-and” person who is positive and motivates those around you with your enthusiasm
Nice to Have:
Prior venture or angel investing experience
Existing relationships in the SF startup ecosystem
Technical / Product background
Our Culture:
Entrepreneurial: We try lots of new things, and move quickly. We’re operators and builders at heart and have an ownership mindset.
Competitive: We aim to be the first investor founders meet. Our goal is to be the fastest, hardest-working, and most thoughtful investor founders work with.
Open-Minded: We don’t believe in the “this is how it’s done” mentality and are always open to new approaches to venture capital.
Transparent: We proactively communicate clearly and quickly both internally (with each other) and externally (with founders and LPs). There are no information caves.
Optimistic: We believe that technology fundamentally impacts the world in a disproportionately positive way and believe it’s our mission to support the founders on their journeys in doing so.
Compensation:
Competitive salary and carried interest participation
Best-in-class health, dental, and vision plan
401(k) plan with company match