Investment Associate - Early Stage Ventures (m/f/d)

Location: Munich

Help identify exceptional founders, emerging technologies and investment opportunities that shape the future.

As an Investment Associate – Early Stage Ventures, you'll help identify, evaluate and support investments in startups, venture funds and emerging technologies that shape the future of industries. Beyond identifying new opportunities, you'll work closely with our existing portfolio companies and ecosystem partners to help create long-term strategic value across the Viessmann Generations Group.

From evaluating breakthrough AI companies to supporting industrial portfolio transformation and connecting founders, investors and operating businesses, you'll combine analytical rigor with sound investment judgement to help shape our future portfolio.

As a globally active, independent family business in its fourth generation, we have been shaping living spheres for generations to come since 1917. Under the leadership of Max Viessmann, we pursue our mission with a long-term perspective and entrepreneurial spirit.

The Viessmann Way supports how we work, lead, and create value together - whether as a team member, entrepreneur or partner in our ecosystem. It is not a rulebook, but a compass: a living set of principles shaped by over a century of entrepreneurship and guided by our long-term purpose.

You'll help identify and evaluate investment opportunities that strengthen VGG's long-term portfolio—from early-stage startups and venture funds to strategic ecosystem partnerships and emerging technologies. Working closely with the investment team, you'll contribute across the full investment process by sourcing opportunities, developing investment theses, performing due diligence and preparing investment recommendations.

Beyond evaluating new investment opportunities, you'll actively contribute to our existing portfolio by supporting founders, identifying strategic opportunities and helping connect companies, investors and operating businesses across the broader VGG ecosystem.

We're looking for someone who brings an outside-in perspective—someone who is naturally curious, connects seemingly unrelated trends and identifies opportunities others may overlook. Success in this role requires more than strong analysis; it requires independent thinking, sound judgement and the ability to develop conviction in emerging technologies, founders and markets before they become obvious.

Discover & Evaluate Emerging Investment Opportunities

• Identify promising startups aligned with VGG's investment strategy and thematic focus areas

• Proactively identify emerging technologies, market shifts and investment opportunities before they become widely recognized

• Conduct commercial, financial and market analysis to develop differentiated investment theses

• Form independent investment opinions by combining rigorous analysis with commercial judgement and clearly articulating investment recommendations

Support Investment Execution

• Perform commercial, financial and strategic due diligence

• Develop financial models, investment cases and decision materials that enable high-quality investment decisions

• Prepare investment memoranda and support Investment Committee decision-making

• Coordinate internal and external diligence workstreams throughout the transaction process

Contribute to Portfolio Value Creation

• Support portfolio companies by identifying strategic opportunities, partnerships and follow-on investment potential

• Connect founders, portfolio companies, investors and operating businesses across the VGG ecosystem to unlock long-term value

• Identify cross-portfolio insights, emerging technology trends and AI-driven opportunities that strengthen both investment decisions and portfolio performance

• 3–5 years of experience in Venture Capital, Corporate Venture Capital, Investment Banking, Growth Equity, Strategy Consulting or a high-growth technology startup—with demonstrated exposure to evaluating investment opportunities, strategic transactions or venture ecosystems

• Experience in financial modelling, commercial due diligence and investment analysis

• Excellent communication and presentation skills with the ability to synthesize complex information into clear recommendations

• Strong pattern recognition and the ability to connect the dots across technologies, industries and entrepreneurial ecosystems

• Experience using AI-enabled research and productivity tools (e.g. ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini or similar) to synthesize information and support investment analysis is highly valued

• Entrepreneurial curiosity and genuine enthusiasm for startups, innovation and emerging technologies

• Exposure to AI, enterprise software, industrial technologies, defense, climate tech or other technology-driven sectors is beneficial

• Business fluent in German and English