Investment Associate @Hexa Scale

Hexa
Paris, France
On-siteCareer-pivot friendly

Who this role is best for

Best suited to candidates with VC or tech M&A experience working in AI-native and agentic SaaS, fintech, climate tech, defense tech, and healthtech domains, with a focus on operational leverage and deep market research.

Best fit for

  • Candidates with 2–3 years in VC or tech M&A roles and a strong grasp of SaaS metrics
    — “2–3 years in VC, growth equity, small-cap PE, tech M&A, or a comparable analytical role”
  • Individuals who can build AI-powered tools and leverage them for sourcing and analysis
    — “AI fluent - You’re at home with tools like Claude Code, Cowork, or OpenAI Codex”
  • Professionals who thrive in a collaborative team environment with clear accountability
    — “Drive sourcing across the team, making sure everyone is accountable for pipeline volume”

Things to consider

  • High expectations for outbound sourcing with consistent weekly results required
    — “Qualify sourced companies and run outreach with a strong response rate”
  • Strong communication skills in both English and French are mandatory
    — “Fluent in English and French. An additional European language is a plus.”

How to stand out

  • Emphasize your ability to run deep market research and synthesize insights
    — “Perform deep-dives on the sectors we prioritize: players, products, competitive dynamics”
  • Showcase your track record in deal analysis and presenting to investment committees
    — “Write investment memos and present to the investment committee”
  • Demonstrate your ability to manage and monitor KPIs for software companies
    — “Monitor portfolio KPIs and track the progress of each transformation plan”
  • Demonstrate your capacity to engage with founders and maintain rapid response rates
    — “Screen every inbound lead and make sure founders hear back from us within hours”
Pace · Fast PacedCollaboration · HighAutonomy · MediumDecision Impact · Company

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What success looks like

  • successful deals
  • high response rate
  • deep market understanding
  • investment memos
  • portfolio KPI tracking
Typical background
financeinvestmentportfolio management

Skills & requirements

Required

Investment AnalysisMarket ResearchDeal Flow ManagementInvestment MemosPortfolio MonitoringValue Creation

Preferred

Ai-powered SourcingMarket Expert SourcingInvestment Committee Presentations

Stack & domain

Ai-powered Sourcing StackCompany DatabaseInternal AI ToolsData ScrapingOutreach SequencesMarket ResearchInvestment MemosFinancial ModelingPortfolio KpisCommunicationTeamworkProblem-solvingTime ManagementAttention To DetailVenture CapitalStartupsInvestmentFinance

About the role

Original posting from Hexa via Ashby

ABOUT HEXA

Hexa https://www.hexa.com/ (formerly eFounders) gives entrepreneurs the best chances to build outstanding companies.

We are a pioneering, world-leading startup studio born in Europe that designs, builds and launches category-defining startups. We are today recognized as one of the best venture studios in the world, with a track record comparable to tier-1 VC funds.

We have created 60+ companies (including 3 unicorns) with a combined valuation of over $5 billion among them Aircall, Spendesk, Front, Swan and Yousign. We are passionate about B2B software, particularly AI-native and agentic SaaS, fintech, climate tech, defense tech and healthtech.

Hexa is in full growth mode, with three early-stage activities: our Ventures programs Hexa Start and Hexa Sprint which help entrepreneurs go from zero to one, and a PE program, Hexa Scale, which takes majority stakes in existing startups and pushes them to new thresholds.

HEXA SCALE

Today, successful software companies have two ways to support and finance their growth: the VC path, and the self-financed profitable path. For software companies that can’t or do not want to bootstrap, but haven’t managed to stay permanently on hyper-growth, the VC path is a dead-end.

At Hexa Scale, we’re on a mission to solve this: offer a new alternative to fund and scale software companies towards exponential growth.

We believe that there are great software companies, still early stages in the 2-10m€ ARR range, that sit on amazing markets with a great product, but that require a few changes to unlock their potential.

We believe that by providing them with capital and strong operational leverage, we can put them on the right trajectory, towards category-leading exponential growth. Our full manifesto https://www.hexa.com/blog/article/were-launching-hexa-scale-to-transform-linear-growth-companies-into-market-leaders.

Your role is to help us find, select, invest in, and drive those companies.

MISSION

You'll join a team of four (Quentin, Augustin, Thibault and Samuel). You’ll participate in the complete deal-flow cycle in order to make 2 or 3 successful deals a year.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

INBOUND DEAL FLOW

  • Contribute to our inbound engine and marketing initiatives: white papers, blog posts, campaigns and founder community events.
  • Screen every inbound lead and make sure founders hear back from us within hours.

OUTBOUND DEAL FLOW

  • Build and maintain our AI-powered sourcing stack: company database, internal AI tools, data scraping and outreach sequences.
  • Qualify sourced companies and run outreach with a strong response rate, so that new opportunities come in every week.
  • Drive sourcing across the team, making sure everyone is accountable for pipeline volume.

MARKET RESEARCH

  • Perform deep-dives on the sectors we prioritize: players, products, competitive dynamics, funding and exit landscape, customer value and GTM models.
  • Source and run calls with market experts outside our network, at scale.

DEAL ANALYSIS & EXECUTION

  • Analyze targets in depth: business model, product, team, growth engine and business plan.
  • Build our own version of the business plan and financial model with the team to stress-test key assumptions and risks.
  • Write investment memos and present to the investment committee.
  • Analyze cap tables and contribute to deal structuring and term negotiation.

PORTFOLIO & VALUE CREATION

  • Monitor portfolio KPIs and track the progress of each transformation plan.
  • Support founders on ad-hoc value-creation projects (pricing, GTM, M&A).

WHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR

EXPERIENCE

  • 2–3 years in VC, growth equity, small-cap PE, tech M&A, or a comparable analytical role (strategy consulting, IB).
  • AI fluent - You’re at home with tools like Claude Code, Cowork, or OpenAI Codex, and you enjoy building your own AI applications to solve real-world problems
  • Strong financial modeling skills and a solid grasp of SaaS metrics.
  • Fluent in English and French. An additional European language is a plus.

MINDSET

  • Entrepreneurial: highly self-driven, a fast learner, a doer with a hunter mindset.
  • Deeply curious: you dig until you reach the heart of a topic.
  • Independent thinker: you form your own views on markets and deals, and you voice them.
  • Coachable: you actively seek feedback and love to learn.
  • Passionate about software and technology.

What we offer

  • Competitive package
  • Opportunity to invest in Hexa portfolio startups at a preferential rate
  • Swile meal card
  • 8 to 12 RTT days per year
  • Mobility budget: €500/year for green transportation (bike, metro, electric scooter)
  • Health insurance with 50% coverage for you and your family
  • 1% Holiday bonus

RECRUITMENT PROCESS

  • 1 step - First call with Laure - introduction to Hexa and a check on cultural fit.
  • 2nd step - Samuel, Principal at Hexa Scale (45minutes) - mutual introduction, deep dive into the role, both projects, and our approach to management.
  • 3rd step - Thibault, Partner at Hexa Scale (45 minutes) - mutual introduction, deep dive into the role, both projects, and our approach to management.
  • Case - Samuel, Thibault et Quentin (1h30/2h at the office) - an exercise inspired by our real projects
  • Last step - Coffee with people from the Core Team
  • Reference check & Offer

Source: Hexa careers (Ashby)

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