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Job Title: Investment   Analyst Department: Global Growth Rep orts  to: Director Location: London  with extensive travel About the Company Future Planet Capital is a global venture firm backing breakthrough companies that  emerge  from the world’s leading universities and research ecosystems to solve humanity’s greatest challenges. Investing at various stages, from Seed to Series C, we back companies solving the issues of our time across climate change, health, education,  security  and sustainable growth. The portfolio a nalyst  role sits within our Global Growth team.   We’r e  a scrappy team that helped grow Future Planet Capital from a $20m experiment fund into the $500m platform it is today, and   we’r e  not finished. We continue in our mission to scale venture and change how it is done: more systematic, more tech-enabled, more straight talking. The role works across The British Co-Investment Fund (BCF), a UK-focused fund backing high-potential founders across the country’s innovation clusters. The Role We’re  hiring an Investment  Analyst  to be the team’s eyes, ears, and first point of contact across the UK startup landscape. They will be sourcing deals, building relationships, and helping us turn early conversations into conviction. You would: • Be a major part of the fund’s presence across the UK startup ecosystem - events, accelerators, university spinouts, and innovation clusters. • Help build on and improve our venture scout network across UK universities - recruiting scouts, equipping them, and turning their signal into deal flow. • Identify  and evaluate promising startups across sectors, with a focusing on companies that can produce billion-pound outcomes. • Manage and grow our VC ecosystem list - tracking relationships across co-investors, angels, scouts, and accelerators in partnership with the team. • Develop reporting and pipeline views within our CRM that give the investment team clear visibility into deal flow and portfolio activity. • Produce content that helps attract great founders - posts, podcasts, and other formats that show what FPC stands for and why founders should want us on their cap table. • Write first-draft investment memos for BCF opportunities, synthesising market research, founder interviews, and competitive analysis. • Support IC preparation, due diligence, and deal documentation across BCF investments. • Develop familiarity with our portfolio and  assist  with reporting, onboarding, and data collection over time. • Comfortable with regular evening work. Founder dinners, ecosystem events, and university gatherings happen after hours, and you see that as a feature not a bug. Skills & Background • We’re  open on background. Strong fits include former founders or co-founders, early employees at high-growth startups, former venture scouts, people  who’ve  thrown great founder events or run university entrepreneurship societies. What matters is that  you’ve  been close to the building of companies, not just the analysis of them. • Strong written skills using the template we have produced. We  don’t  need you to  write  extended essays, but we need clear, well-structured arguments quickly so we can understand the strengths of a team and the risks we are accepting with an investment What  We’re  Looking For • Outstanding communication skills. You can hold your own with founders, co-investors, and senior IC members, ask the questions that surface  what's  really going on in a business, and simplify and synthesise complex information for the team's benefit. • Organised and detail-oriented, with the judgment to prioritise ruthlessly when pipeline and travel pull in different directions. • Comfort with ambiguity and a bias toward action over waiting for perfect information. • A grafter who loves working hard, being  out and about , and building networks from scratch. Available to travel regularly across the UK. • Technical curiosity. We want you to love AI tools like Claude, Claude Code, Notion AI, or similar. We want you to love technology to multiply output but not replace judgment. • Low ego, high empathy, and a genuine belief that the team wins or loses together. • Intellectually curious about technology and startups. We want someone who can talk for hours about emerging trends and company-building. • Passionate about impact-driven investing. Salary and Benefits We offer a competitive salary of £4 5 -60k  commensurate  with experience, alongside a discretionary bonus linked to individual and fund performance and in time, participation in the carried interest scheme. Benefits include: • 10 % pension contribution • Private healthcare insurance • 25 days’ annual leave plus public holidays • Hybrid working arrangements • Access to training and professional development opportunities This is a year 2 fixed term year role, reviewed against fund growth and deployment at the 12- and 24-month mark. Equal Opportunities Future Planet Capital is committed to building a diverse and inclusive team. We believe that a range of perspectives strengthens decision-making and leads to better investment outcomes. We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all qualified candidates, regardless of gender, ethnicity, disability, age, sexual orientation, religion or belief, or socio-economic background. We are committed to ensuring a fair and transparent recruitment process and will make reasonable adjustments where  required  to support candidates through the application process.