Deal Origination Associate - Technology Private Equity / Growth Equity

Andesite Partners has been exclusively appointed by a leading and highly established US private equity and growth equity platform to hire an Origination Associate into its European investment team. The firm has a long-standing track record investing across technology and technology-enabled businesses and is now looking to add a dedicated origination professional focused on identifying and developing new investment opportunities across Europe.

The Role

This is a highly sourcing-led position, focused on proprietary deal generation rather than pure transaction execution.

The successful candidate will:

• Map attractive technology sectors and subsectors across Europe
• Identify high-quality companies that fit the firm’s investment strategy
• Build relationships directly with founders, CEOs and management teams
• Develop proprietary opportunities ahead of formal sale processes
• Build and maintain a strong pipeline of prospective investments
• Conduct initial commercial and financial assessment of opportunities
• Present relevant companies and investment themes to the wider investment team
• Work closely with senior investors as opportunities develop

The emphasis is firmly on finding opportunities, developing relationships and creating deal flow .

Requirements

We are looking for someone with approximately 2–6 years of relevant experience and a strong existing origination background. Ideally, candidates will already be working within another private equity, growth equity or technology-focused investment platform and will have meaningful responsibility for sourcing new investments across Europe.

Candidates should demonstrate:

• Genuine proprietary origination experience
• Strong European technology market knowledge
• Confidence engaging directly with founders and senior management teams
• Strong commercial judgement
• The ability to identify attractive companies and investment themes
• Excellent communication and relationship-building skills
• Strong analytical capability
• A proactive and highly entrepreneurial mindset

Additional European language skills would be highly attractive.

Candidate Backgrounds

Relevant backgrounds could include:

• Technology-focused growth equity
• Technology private equity
• Dedicated PE or growth equity origination teams
• Growth investing with meaningful sourcing responsibility
• Larger-cap private equity where the candidate has genuine proprietary origination exposure
• Selected technology-focused investment banking backgrounds where origination has been a meaningful part of the role

The strongest candidates are likely to already spend a significant proportion of their time mapping markets, identifying companies, approaching founders and bringing new opportunities into an investment team .

Further information regarding the fund, investment strategy and team will be shared with relevant candidates through the process.

For a confidential discussion, please contact Jose Retamal at Andesite Partners.

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