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| Research | Full-time
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About the Work:
- We live and breathe startups, technology trends, and the venture capital industry. We evaluate and analyze startups, their business models, revenue models, distribution models, and everything else there is to know about them.
- Alternative data is our lifeline! We leverage it to figure out how companies are doing, how their competitors are doing, and how the industry is doing.
- We love sharing interesting insights derived from companies of interest with our customers as mailers and reports regularly. These premium contents showcase the immense capabilities of the powerful Synaptic platform to guide investors’ decision-making.
- We are very crazy about different trends and developments in the startup world. And we do it all as a team. We collaborate with the engineering, product, and data science team to give life to these ideas.
Requirements:
- You are intellectually curious and motivated by innovative ideas in the above-mentioned industry sectors and demonstrate an ability to understand, classify, review and analyze companies in the sector.
- You have a keen desire to analyze and interpret the business models and underlying market of companies leveraging techniques like the first principle approach, root cause analysis, hypothesis generation, benchmarking, etc.
- You possess a strong appetite to deep dive into blogs, company filings, news articles, and industry reports from reputed & trustworthy sources to distill relevant and key findings and simultaneously develop sector expertise.
- You are a closeted author. You are articulate and ready to show off the new insights and data to our clients. You can storyboard numbers to tell stories and form and express an independent opinion on sectoral developments by identifying growth drivers and challenges for the given sector.
- Identify business model, sub-sector, recent developments, revenue model, strategy, issues, challenges, M&A history, competitive positioning, organizational structure, key management, SWOT, etc. for the companies of the sector
- You can conduct secondary research of the given industry sector by modeling the industry value chain, and competitive landscape leveraging frameworks like Porter's 5 Forces, PESTLE analysis, etc.
- You've either worked in market research/startup research or have a flair for secondary research
- You want to grit it out and help build a world-class company and not settle for complacency
Experience:
- Fresh college graduate or professional with up to 2 years of full-time work experience
- Exposure to secondary market research, consultancy, and/or startup experience is preferred
About Synaptic:
Synaptic is a Series B funded India and US-based SaaS start-up that is bringing the power of alternative data to the world of investing. We unify real-time insights on companies across 100s of metrics onto one platform. Data is changing traditional investment research and we are at the forefront of this change. Our customers are some of the biggest and the most prolific venture capital firms, private equity shops, and hedge funds managing hundreds of billions of dollars cumulatively. We are backed by marquee global funds like Valor Equity Partners, Ribbit, Felicis, and Vy Capital.