Capital and Market Activation Lead
$81,600–$87,600 year
HybridAmsterdam, North Holland, The Netherlands
Job Summary
Build investor relationships, drive market shaping, and activate demand to help founders access capital efficiently. Identify bottlenecks in the Dutch Deeptech ecosystem, design scalable systems for procurement and advanced market commitments, and explore neglected capital routes including public buyers. Translate strategic priorities into structured action plans while managing stakeholders across investors, corporates, and policymakers. Operate without fully defined briefs to unlock entirely different types of funding. This role shapes the Dutch Deeptech ecosystem for 2035, focusing on European markets with adaptability to US mechanisms. Success involves launching a flagship initiative within six months and establishing rigorous learning rhythms.
Required Qualifications
- 5+ years in a high-pace environment, preferably inside a Deeptech startup or VC/family office
- Direct experience with the Deeptech capital stack, either from the investment or the startup side
- Proven knowledge of the funding landscape, including alternatives/complementary to VC
- Strong analytical and structured systems thinking
- Excellent communicator in English (written and verbal)
- Ability to think outside the box and challenge conventional thinking, comfortable looking at how capital and procurement mechanisms work outside Europe and translating that into a Dutch/European context
- Stakeholder management across diverse organisations and seniority levels
- Genuine subject-matter expertise on startup funding
- Low-ego, service-oriented mindset
- Able to design systems and portfolios of interventions, not just single events
- You know how investors think and how markets move, but what excites you is building something new, not managing an existing portfolio
Desired Qualifications
- Experience in a top Deeptech VC fund
- Existing network in European and US VC/investors
- Experience with market shaping/activation and public/private procurement
- Dutch language skills
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