Associate, Capital Team Description Location: New York or San Francisco (flexible) Start Date: January 15, 2026 Works with: Works with: Allen Taylor (Managing Partner, Endeavor Catalyst), Margaret Pollack (Senior Director, Head of Investments & Capital), Jaysel Shah (Lead Manager, Investor Network & Paths to Liquidity), Anna Hubbell (Senior Manager, Investments & SF Capital Lead), Isabela Carvajal (Senior Associate, Capital), Amber Cohon (Associate, Capital) About Endeavor & Endeavor Catalyst Endeavor is the leading network of entrepreneurs scaling exceptional businesses around the world. Founded in 1997, we exist to develop thriving entrepreneurial ecosystems in places where talent is abundant, but capital and opportunity are not.
Our model:
- Select: We identify entrepreneurs with the greatest potential and introduce them to Endeavor through a rigorous, value-add selection journey.
- Support: We give founders access to a trusted community, curated programming, global markets, and smart capital to help them navigate pivotal moments.
- Invest: Endeavor Catalyst ($850M AUM) helps our entrepreneurs scale faster by providing founder-friendly capital alongside leading venture funds, generating meaningful returns for LPs and Endeavor.
- Elevate: We amplify the stories of Endeavor Entrepreneurs and provide a platform for them to inspire, mentor, and invest in the next generation.
- Advance: To advance the field of global entrepreneurship, Endeavor publishes data-driven research and thought leadership based on our 30 years of experience in Elsewhere markets.
Endeavor supports 3,000+ entrepreneurs across 50+ countries, including the founders of Replit, Mercado Libre, Careem, Rappi, Checkout.com, and ElevenLabs.
Endeavor Catalyst is Endeavor’s rules-based, co-investment fund that invests in the companies of Endeavor Entrepreneurs. Since launching in 2012, Endeavor Catalyst has raised over $850M+ across five funds and made 415+ investments in 40+ different countries, including more than 83 companies now valued at $1B+. Endeavor Catalyst offers a unique opportunity for Endeavor to become financially self-sustaining by investing in the very entrepreneurs it supports, while generating access to world-class companies and meaningful returns for investors. Most recently Endeavor Catalyst closed its 5th and largest fund ever at $320M – see announcement covered in TechCrunch HERE!
About the Capital Team:
The Capital Team bridges Endeavor’s Entrepreneur Experience team, which delivers programmatic services to our entrepreneurs, and the Endeavor Catalyst team. We are the ‘Entrepreneur-facing’ team for the Endeavor Catalyst fund. Within our team, we ensure Endeavor Entrepreneurs are thoroughly prepared to raise capital from the best investors, support these founders from Series A to IPO, manage relationships with the top VC and growth equity investors, support founders later in their journey as they plan and prepare for liquidity (including partial liquidity along the way, M&A, IPOs), oversee the pipeline and execution of Endeavor Catalyst investments, and help to manage Endeavor Catalyst’s portfolio. The Capital Team is a tight-knit, collaborative, high trust team. We collaborate across a number of different functions at Endeavor, including the Entrepreneur Selection Team, Entrepreneur Experience Team, Endeavor Catalyst Investor Relations & Fundraising Team, and Endeavor Catalyst Operations & Finance Team. About the Role The Associate on the Capital team will gain broad exposure to each of the workflows that fall within the Capital team. The focus of the role will be delivering Endeavor’s core service offerings to entrepreneurs raising capital – this work is central to Endeavor’s mission of adding value to Entrepreneurs and will play a key role in Endeavor Catalyst pipeline and portfolio-related objectives. This will involve preparing entrepreneurs to raise venture capital (pitch deck review, mentorship, identifying target VCs), recruiting new VC contacts into Endeavor’s network + managing these relationships, and supporting later-stage Endeavor companies navigating decisions around IPO preparation and M&A processes. This is an unique opportunity to work with top founders from Elsewhere (read article linked for how we define this!), as well as leading venture capital and growth equity investors, and to build meaningful relationships with both.
Responsibilities include:
- Access to Capital: The Capital team supports the journey of Endeavor Entrepreneurs raising capital from the point of selection to fundraising to Endeavor Catalyst investment and beyond. Your role will include:
- Analyzing and compiling information on newly selected companies each month to ensure the Capital team has relevant context on each new company for Endeavor Catalyst’s pipeline and our next steps for supporting each company.
- Working directly with Endeavor Entrepreneurs from Day 1
- Identifying and executing value-add mentorships related to capital raising, leveraging Endeavor’s global network of mentors
- Connecting entrepreneurs across markets and industries to facilitate peer-to-peer learning
- Identifying investors that could be a fit for Endeavor companies based on their specific investment thesis based on Endeavor’s insights and data
- Drafting materials to be shared with mentors and investors related to Endeavor companies and fundraising
- Executing follow-ups as needed to facilitate introductions with mentors, investors and other founders
- Investor Network: Endeavor maintains active relationships with over 300 top venture capital, growth equity, and late-stage capital markets players. You will support our team in recruitment, engagement and relationship management of these investors. Your role will include:
- Supporting management of investment thesis data of 300+ global funds
- Preparing materials (emails, slides) to showcase Endeavor Entrepreneurs and our markets to be presented to investors
- Leading on research to build out quarterly recruitment targets and ultimately owning a segment of our investor recruitment by pitching Endeavor and our portfolio companies
- Supporting design and execution of flagship events that bring together founders and investors. These will include Investor Breakfasts, Endeavor Catalyst AGM (September 2027 in London), Endeavor Week in NYC (December 2027 in NYC), in addition to other global events where we seek to bring together our LPs, founders and co-investors.
- Paths to Liquidity: Over the past 2 years, Endeavor has extended our core ‘Access to Capital’ support to our later stage portfolio of founders through M&A, IPO. Your role will include:
- Maintaining a robust database of mentors across all stages of the capital raise process, from seed to IPO or M&A.
- Coordinating mentorships for later-stage Endeavor Entrepreneurs according to their unique challenges
- Facilitating connections between public markets investors and founders pre-IPO
- Identifying gaps in our network to support recruitment efforts
- Helping plan content sessions leveraging the insights from experts on different aspects of the public listing, corporate M&A, or secondary fundraising process
- Endeavor Catalyst Investments & Portfolio: The Capital Team is the primary ‘entrepreneur-facing’ team of Endeavor Catalyst that leads all co-investments into Endeavor companies globally and plays a critical role in managing performance updates and support for all Endeavor Catalyst portfolio companies. In this capacity, this role will include:
- Drafting memos for both Management & the Endeavor Catalyst Rules Committee related to investments & exits
- Preparing prep work and coordinating follow ups from Quarterly Portfolio Reviews
- Drafting memos for co-investment opportunities to be shared with LPs
Who We’re Looking For As a mission-oriented company, Endeavor seeks someone who is aligned with our values:
- Entrepreneur First: You are mission-oriented and believe in Endeavor’s model to change the world through high-impact entrepreneurship
- Go Big: You are someone whose curiosity drives them to dream (and execute!) big as Endeavor reimagines its service offerings to entrepreneurs. You proactively identify gaps, improve processes and anticipate challenges, and have a strong ability to synthesize large amounts of information and complex ideas.
- Network of Trust: You’re great with people! You naturally build and maintain relationships with key players and have the superior interpersonal skills needed to build trust with our entrepreneurs, mentors, and teams in over 40 markets.
- Pay It Forward: You’re someone with a service-oriented attitude who asks, “What can I do?” before asking, “What can I get?” You are a team player with a knack for problem-solving.
- One Endeavor: You’re comfortable working across cultures and will thrive on working with colleagues in over 30 different countries around the world on joint projects and knowledge sharing about in-country context and portfolio information. You have a vision for what you want to do in-region to build Endeavor Catalyst Network, and you have a bias for action to make it happen.
- Always Agile: You believe in the importance of planning but never hesitate to change plans in the face of new data and circumstances. You can wear many hats, are open to change, and can be a creative problem-solver. You are resourceful, adaptable, flexible, and able to work calmly under pressure.
In addition:
- 1-2 years of professional experience including investment and corporate banking, venture capital, consulting, start-up experience preferred.
- Hardworking + high attention to detail and organization is a must.
- Public speaking and presentation experience is a plus. Financial acumen and knowledge about venture capital and entrepreneurship is a plus.
- If you are a globally-minded, mission-driven individual looking to combine and build both 1) technical and analytical skills with 2) business development and long-term relationship-management skills in the world of entrepreneurship and VC, this is a great role for you.
Benefits
Benefits include:
- Expected salary range: $80,000 USD - $90,000 USD, eligible for additional annual bonus.
- 401K match is 5%
- Health / Dental / Vision Insurance: fully covered monthly premiums
- international travel to Endeavor’s markets (expect minimum of 2 international trips in 1st year)
- Access to Wellhub (Wellhub is an Endeavor company!)
- unlimited paid time off
- network of 600 amazing colleagues in 50 countries
