Intern Analyst

Lateral Frontiers is a mission-driven venture fund. We invest in early-stage opportunities in Africa. Our fund backs technology-enabled businesses that profitably solve significant pain points across two essential verticals; - financial services and climate tech.

Headquartered in New York, Lateral also has a presence in Silicon Valley, Cairo, Lagos, and Nairobi. We are currently looking to recruit an intern for our Nairobi office to work alongside a partner and a team of analysts. The paid internship would last 6-12 months and there is a possibility of this graduating into a full-time role.

Previous interns have secured full-time roles and will be moving to other markets on a rotating basis. Should you be promoted to Analyst, you will have the opportunity to rotate across other markets and be embedded in Africa's start-up and VC tech hubs.

To apply for the position, please send a cover letter and resume. On your cover letter, indicate the following to be considered for the internship.

• Why Venture Capital?
  

• Why Lateral Frontiers?
  

• Why are you the right candidate?
  

• If successful, what do you hope to get out of this internship?
  

• What are your 2- to 5-year career aspirations?
  

Job Requirements

Compulsory

• Recent graduate, having graduated with an undergraduate or postgraduate degree in the
  last 3 years

• Strong academic background
  

• Strong Microsoft Office and Google suite skillset, particularly Excel
  

• Flexible working hours
  

• Will be required to locate to Nairobi for the initial 4-6 months as part of their training program
  

• Ability to complete training material in their own time.
  

• Strong and demonstratable interest in VC, fintech or climate tech.
  

Strongly Preferred

• Numerical degree
  

Preferable

• CFA Level I or above
  

• Some exposure to private equity/venture capital/corporate finance
  

• Some exposure to writing articles, white papers, and media pieces
  

• Some exposure to reviewing legal documents
  

• Some exposure to institutional fundraising
  

Lateral Frontiers is a mission-driven venture fund. We invest in early-stage opportunities in Africa. Our fund backs technology-enabled businesses that profitably solve significant pain points across two essential verticals; - financial services and climate tech.

Headquartered in New York, Lateral also has a presence in Silicon Valley, Cairo, Lagos, and Nairobi. We are currently looking to recruit an intern for our Nairobi office to work alongside a partner and a team of analysts. The paid internship would last 6-12 months and there is a possibility of this graduating into a full-time role.

Previous interns have secured full-time roles and will be moving to other markets on a rotating basis. Should you be promoted to Analyst, you will have the opportunity to rotate across other markets and be embedded in Africa's start-up and VC tech hubs.

To apply for the position, please send a cover letter and resume. On your cover letter, indicate the following to be considered for the internship.

• Why Venture Capital?
  

• Why Lateral Frontiers?
  

• Why are you the right candidate?
  

• If successful, what do you hope to get out of this internship?
  

• What are your 2- to 5-year career aspirations?
  

Job Requirements

Compulsory

• Recent graduate, having graduated with an undergraduate or postgraduate degree in the
  last 3 years

• Strong academic background
  

• Strong Microsoft Office and Google suite skillset, particularly Excel
  

• Flexible working hours
  

• Will be required to locate to Nairobi for the initial 4-6 months as part of their training program
  

• Ability to complete training material in their own time.
  

• Strong and demonstratable interest in VC, fintech or climate tech.
  

Strongly Preferred

• Numerical degree
  

Preferable

• CFA Level I or above
  

• Some exposure to private equity/venture capital/corporate finance
  

• Some exposure to writing articles, white papers, and media pieces
  

• Some exposure to reviewing legal documents
  

• Some exposure to institutional fundraising
  

Responsibilities

Deal origination and assessment

• Support deal lead in building a proprietary deal pipeline
  

• Responsible for ensuring all deals are appropriately recorded and processed in a timely
  manner

• Work with the deal team to assess new deal opportunities
  

• Build out financial models and return analysis
  

• Support in writing investment memos
  

• Market research and due diligence on deals
  

• Scheduling
  meetings and maintaining communication with founders

• Supporting in all deal admin
  

• Other ad hoc tasks
  

Portfolio management

• Support portfolio director in completing and monitoring KPI & 100-day plans
  

• Taking notes during scheduled strategic and financial update calls
  

• Sending out and following up on action points that come from these calls
  

• Supporting deal lead on follow-on investments
  

• Work with the portfolio team to provide support to portfolio companies when required.
  

• Work with the portfolio director to ensure portfolio companies' reporting is complete on time.
  

• Following up with portfolio companies on their obligations, such as loan repayments
  

• Occasionally, interns may be seconded to portfolio companies to complete urgent tasks.
  

Thought Leadership

• Support in producing market research and sector whitepapers
  

• Support in producing monthly investor newsletter
  

• Support in producing thought leadership articles and media
  

• Consistently update the team on ongoing developments in venture capital space
  

• Keeping a calendar of upcoming venture capital events and webinars
  

Fund administration and fundraising

• Support with writing portfolio reports for LPs
  

• Support with producing investor materials for fundraises
  

• Helping schedule investor meetings and maintaining notes on all meetings
  

• Helping organize investor open days
  

Training Requirements

• Successful and timely completion of all training materials