About Vistara
At “Vistara” (Sanskrit for “Expansion”), our core purpose is to enable growth of the companies we invest in, our team, our investors, and the communities we operate in. We provide highly flexible capital solutions in the form of growth debt and/or growth equity to meet the financing needs of mid-later stage technology companies across North America. We invest exclusively in technology with a primary focus on enterprise software, including targeted key verticals of Cloud/IT infrastructure, Security, Fintech, AI, and Healthcare IT.
We are currently at the latter stages of investing from our latest Vistara Technology Growth Fund IV LP, and encourage you to join our team as we plan to launch our latest Fund V in the fall of 2023, continuing our own expansion since inception in 2015.
Based in either Toronto or Vancouver, you will be an integral member of our investment team helping lead aspects of the deal process: Sourcing, Execution, and Enablement. Our ideal candidate embraces a dynamic, multifaceted role in an entrepreneurial organization where they will work among the senior deal team, technology company executives, and other investors in the technology funding ecosystem.
Key Responsibilities include:
Sourcing:
- Leverage existing relationships to originate prospective investment opportunities.
- Oversee preliminary financial, strategic, and competitive analysis of prospective investments.
- Lead or support coverage of key investment verticals.
Execution:
- Generate and present short and long form investment theses as well as other memoranda as needed by investment committee and other stakeholders.
- Draft summary proposals, term sheets, and letters of intent to be shared with potential target companies.
- Oversee in-depth due diligence efforts and deal closing workflows.
Enablement:
- Oversee post-investment portfolio management (including Board Observer roles where available), liaising with company management, boards of directors, and other key stakeholders.
- Maintain relevant industry knowledge and stakeholder relationships.
- Support general fund operations, including liaising with finance and marketing teams around fundraising, valuations and investor reporting.
- Participate in strategic initiatives for Vistara Growth that help us grow and further enable our companies, team, investors, and communities.
Requirements:
- 6+ years of experience at equity or debt investor in technology companies, or other transaction-focused roles (eg. investment banking) dedicated to growth stage technology companies.
- Highly organized, able to handle multiple parallel tasks, and effectively prioritize where needed.
- Proactively solicits and provides opinions and ideas.
We welcome all applicants, as we are strong supporters of diversity, equity and inclusion in our organization and through a number of community initiatives.
Our team operates collaboratively from our offices in both Vancouver and Toronto, while having a flexible work environment that allows for part, but not full-time remote participation.
If you meet the above criteria and are eager to pursue this unique opportunity, please indicate your interest to [email protected] or existing relationships on the Vistara team.
We sincerely appreciate all submissions, however, only those candidates selected for interviews will be contacted.
Posted Aug. 24, 2023