Paris | Hybrid
Type: Full-time
Industry: Venture Capital, Finance, Investment
Languages: English (other languages are a plus)
Start Date: September 2026
About Inovexus
Inovexus is a cross-border acceleration fund and private investment community backing early-stage B2B tech founders with global ambitions. With a network of 2,000+ investors, founders, and mentors across 20+ countries, we provide capital, strategic guidance, and access to international networks — collaborating closely with founders to drive sustainable growth and long-term value creation.
Your Role
We’re looking for an experienced Head of Ventures to lead the investment engine at Inovexus. You’ll own the venture investment lifecycle end to end, from sourcing and due diligence to investment committee, deal execution, and portfolio performance, helping us back the next generation of exceptional B2B technology founders.
This is a high-impact leadership role for someone who combines strong investment judgment with operational excellence, thrives in a fast-paced venture environment, and wants to help build one of Europe’s leading early-stage investment platforms.
1. Own Deal Flow & Investment Conversion
- Take full ownership of the investment engine, from AI-sourced pipeline to signed deal to on-track portfolio company. Time-to-close and conversion are your hard metrics.
- Close the pipeline-to-investment gap: convert the ~4 qualified startups a week into funded deals, driving toward 12 IC-approved, funded deals in 2026 and a one-deal-a-week trajectory.
- Chair the pipeline review and present to IC. Own the quality bar and the pre-IC soft-commit process, once compliance-cleared.
- Make the pipeline reproducible, not reactive: defined stages, real conversion assumptions, a weekly cadence you can defend.
2. Sourcing Strategy, Diligence & Deal Execution
- Own the four ranked sourcing channels: VC network, VC deal-sharing, qualified startup network, early startup network. Push Specter and Sourcing-AI signal use well past today's 6%.
- Lead valuation, structuring, and negotiation on every deal, in partnership with Legal, Finance, and Compliance.
- Provide senior oversight of the six-month Founders Club acceleration programme, ensuring it demonstrably shortens the path to the next raise.
- Build and hold the relationships that compound: funds, corporates, follow-on investors, and the founders who send us other founders.
3. Portfolio Health, Team & Compliance
- With the CFO and finance function, own the standard: 60% of portfolio companies on track for their next-round targets, minimum.
- Lead VC associates and the sourcing team, coordinate with the Finance & Portfolio Associate on monitoring, and with IR on demand for deals.
- Turn portfolio wins into proof: case studies and references that support IR and LP conversations.
- Keep every deal and investor-facing artefact inside the PSFP compliance architecture.
You'll run the pipeline and close the deals yourself, owning the result end to end, and as the model proves out, build and lead the investment function beneath you.
Experience & skills:
- Experience & skills
- 10+ years in venture capital, corporate venture, or private equity, with a track record owning deal flow and conversion end to end, not just sourcing.
Mindset
- Results-first and ownership-driven, comfortable operating under a hard number with full accountability. Nothing that touches conversion is "not your problem."
- You'd rather kill a weak deal early than nurse it to a bad close.
- Autonomous, structured, and resilient, with a strong bias to action.
- Works in close proximity to sourcing and IR; builds the system behind the scenes and shows up credibly in front of founders and investors.
Background
- Bachelor's degree in business, finance, economics, or a related field; advanced degree a plus.
- International experience or a strong interest in working in a multicultural environment.
Languages: Fluent English (C1) required. Other languages (French especially) are a plus.
Why Join Inovexus?
- Own a number that matters: real, end-to-end ownership of the investment engine and how Inovexus converts pipeline into portfolio.
- Build the engine: you won't inherit a machine, you'll design the deal process that scales the fund.
- Access to everything: your pipeline feeds every product and relationship in the Inovexus network.
- Career accelerator: built to grow into a senior investment leadership role based on performance.
- Ownership & freedom: autonomy to challenge the status quo on sourcing and structuring, with real capital behind your calls.
Perks & Benefits
- Full-time permanent contract (CDI)
- Hybrid work model (partial remote / work from home).
- Office based in center of Paris
- Competitive salary
- Performance-based variable compensation
How to Apply?
Please fill in the application form and provide a cover letter because we want to see how you think about growth.
Start Date: September 2026
Join us in building the largest private investment community in Europe!
Job Type: Full-time
Work Location: In person
