Director, Capital Formation

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Come join Connecticut Innovations - Venture Capital for Biotech, IT, and More Connecticut Innovations as a Consultant to support startup fundraising (Proof of Concept to Series B ) for our portfolio companies!

Connecticut Innovations | Overview

As Connecticut's strategic venture capital arm and one of the most active investors on the eastern seaboard, CI has a portfolio of 220+ companies across various industries, with strengths in life sciences, technology and climate tech. CI meets with hundreds of companies every year, identifying the most promising early-stage companies looking to grow in the state. Every year, CI invests in 20+ new companies, in addition to providing follow-on capital to existing portfolio companies. CI also invests as a Limited Partner in outside venture funds based in CT (17 in the past 6 years).

• CI has invested $675+ million in innovative startups since 1995
• CI’s leveraging power is 10X, or $6.7 billion

CI invested $48.7 million in 81 companies and venture funds in the fiscal year ending June 30, 2024. CI’s investments also attracted an additional $1.1 billion in outside capital into its portfolio companies. This fiscal year generated $35 million in cash proceeds through company exits, which includes acquisitions and IPOs, which will allow CI to invest in more early-stage companies in the future.

• Our culture is vibrant, diverse, collaborative, and inclusive. We embrace perspective and have mission alignment on our impact to Connecticut’s innovation ecosystem. We host or participate in over 20 ecosystem events per year, and our headquarters at The District in New Haven is a catalyst for partnership and an innovation ecosystem community hub.

To provide both strategic and tactical guidance, we hire and embed executives in our portfolio companies for a period of time—at our expense.

Capital is needed during key points of a startup’s development - when starting a business, during rapid growth or scaling phases, or when planning an acquisition. Fundraising is an art that involves a lot of soft skills, and success is not tied to a set of clearly definable metrics.

This is an opportunity to lead Startup Fundraising Strategy & Activities with our portfolio companies (Proof of Concept to Series B ).

• Fundraising Strategy - Develop a comprehensive plan to identify, engage and close fundraising opportunities. This work will include development of a pitch deck, financial model, storytelling, valuation analysis and capital structure counsel.
• Fundraising Activities - Perform investor outreach and lead generation and manage the end-to-end investor execution to support successful capital raises.

Looking for those that have an interest in Connecticut's innovation ecosystem, bring a wealth of capital raising expertise in early-stage companies and a deep pool of investor relationships to help Founders and their teams advance ideas, and the resources to make things happen. But above all, looking for those individuals that bring the same passion for innovation as the entrepreneurs they will support.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Director

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Sales, Management, and General Business

• Industries

  Venture Capital and Private Equity Principals, Fundraising, and Funds and Trusts

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