Head of Accelerator / Venture Building
Head of Accelerator / Venture Building
Competitive salary + bonus + carried interest | Flexible location
Our client is a prominent UK VC investment firm looking to appoint a senior leader to build and run an ambitious new deep-tech venture-building programme.
This is a rare opportunity to create something from the ground up – shaping the strategy, proposition, team, network and operating model – but with the capital, expertise, infrastructure and wider resources of an established investment organisation.
With a focus on university spinouts and IP-rich businesses, the platform will identify exceptional companies at an early stage and help turn them into compelling, institutionally investable ventures.
The successful candidate will have significant autonomy and a broad mandate. They will:
Build and continually develop a world-class venture-building programme
Recruit and lead the team
Create a high-calibre network of founders, operators, mentors and investors
Build relationships with universities and other innovation ecosystems
Own the platform's commercial and investment performance
Help make investment decisions into participating businesses
Develop a repeatable accelerator model capable of scaling significantly over time
Ultimately, the ambition is to create Europe's leading deep-tech venture-building programme for university spinouts.
The successful candidate will be someone who has built, launched and/or scaled an accelerator, venture builder, pre-seed platform or comparable early-stage venture operation. Relevant experience could come from venture capital, venture studios, university commercialisation, deep-tech accelerators or other company-building environments.
This opportunity represents a chance to mould something from its formative stages and then have the platform, capital and credibility to take it to meaningful scale.
As such, it should suit individuals with a genuine builder mindset: entrepreneurial, ambitious and comfortable creating rather than simply inheriting. This person will want the ownership and creative scope of an earlier-stage environment, while possessing a genuine enthusiasm for (and credibility in) deep-tech and IP-rich spinouts.
For more information, please contact emma@upscalepartners.com
