Andesite Partners has been exclusively appointed by a leading and highly established US private equity and growth equity platform to hire an Origination Associate into its European investment team. The firm has a long-standing track record investing across technology and technology-enabled businesses and is now looking to add a dedicated origination professional focused on identifying and developing new investment opportunities across Europe.
The Role
This is a highly sourcing-led position, focused on proprietary deal generation rather than pure transaction execution.
The successful candidate will:
- Map attractive technology sectors and subsectors across Europe
- Identify high-quality companies that fit the firm’s investment strategy
- Build relationships directly with founders, CEOs and management teams
- Develop proprietary opportunities ahead of formal sale processes
- Build and maintain a strong pipeline of prospective investments
- Conduct initial commercial and financial assessment of opportunities
- Present relevant companies and investment themes to the wider investment team
- Work closely with senior investors as opportunities develop
The emphasis is firmly on finding opportunities, developing relationships and creating deal flow .
Requirements
We are looking for someone with approximately 2–6 years of relevant experience and a strong existing origination background. Ideally, candidates will already be working within another private equity, growth equity or technology-focused investment platform and will have meaningful responsibility for sourcing new investments across Europe.
Candidates should demonstrate:
- Genuine proprietary origination experience
- Strong European technology market knowledge
- Confidence engaging directly with founders and senior management teams
- Strong commercial judgement
- The ability to identify attractive companies and investment themes
- Excellent communication and relationship-building skills
- Strong analytical capability
- A proactive and highly entrepreneurial mindset
Additional European language skills would be highly attractive.
Candidate Backgrounds
Relevant backgrounds could include:
- Technology-focused growth equity
- Technology private equity
- Dedicated PE or growth equity origination teams
- Growth investing with meaningful sourcing responsibility
- Larger-cap private equity where the candidate has genuine proprietary origination exposure
- Selected technology-focused investment banking backgrounds where origination has been a meaningful part of the role
The strongest candidates are likely to already spend a significant proportion of their time mapping markets, identifying companies, approaching founders and bringing new opportunities into an investment team .
Further information regarding the fund, investment strategy and team will be shared with relevant candidates through the process.
For a confidential discussion, please contact Jose Retamal at Andesite Partners.
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