2025 Venture Capital Research Intern
Santa Monica, CA
Internship, Full-time
Onsite
$1,500/wk - $1,500/wk
New Grad Level
Anthos is a generalist venture capital firm partnering with innovative companies. They are seeking a 2025 Venture Capital Research Intern to perform analyses, conduct research, and assist in due diligence processes to support investment decisions.
Responsibilities
- Run quantitative analyses on key metrics such as customer acquisition cost, customer retention, growth ratios, and overall unit economics.
- Perform research on overall industry trends, competitive landscape and dynamics, total addressable market size (TAM), etc. that may impact the prospects of companies. This includes staying on top of news articles, government reports, equity research, market analysis, and trade journals.
- Work with the Sourcing team and apply your own hypothesis-driven thinking to determine what additional data might help inform the decision.
- Chase down data through online research, using Anthos customer advisory groups, analyzing in-store pricing, etc. Creativity is welcome, as long as we derive meaningful insights!
- Determine which experts can shed additional light on a problem, and set up information-gathering calls.
- Speak with founders to get any 'due diligence' questions answered.
- Pull together comprehensive data packs for the investment team to review for their decision-making.
- Simplify complex analyses into digestible charts and summaries.
- Ad hoc projects to assist the broader Anthos team.
Qualification
Required
- Rising senior at a top university with a strong GPA and previous internship experience.
- Analytical or finance majors may be ideally positioned, but we’ve seen success across other majors.
- Financial ability and curiosity.
- Relentlessness, unwavering work ethic, and coachability.
- Independent thinking, strong quantitative chops, and extreme curiosity.
- Immense capacity for learning, ingesting facts and data, and having strong attention to detail.
- Ability to connect the dots about businesses and what’s happening in the world around you.
- Collaborative, coachable, and humble.
Preferred
- Knowledge of SQL, Tableau, or other analytical tools is a plus.
- $1500 sign-on bonus
- 1 full week of foundational training
- Plethora of social events