Manager - Investor Relations /Venture Capital

As a highly driven and detail-oriented Portfolio Manager, you will be responsible for managing and supporting investments across early to growth-stage startups. Your role will be crucial in maintaining deep relationships with portfolio founders, monitoring performance, and enabling strategic value creation. Your key responsibilities will include: - Portfolio Management & Monitoring: Tracking, analyzing, and reporting the performance of portfolio companies (financial, operational, and strategic KPIs). Developing and maintaining internal dashboards and MIS systems. Preparing quarterly/annual reports and presentations for LPs and internal stakeholders. - Founder & Stakeholder Engagement: Serving as the primary point of contact for portfolio companies. Supporting founders with strategic guidance, hiring, partnerships, fundraising, and operations. Identifying and facilitating value-creation opportunities (intros to clients, investors, mentors, etc.). - Governance & Compliance: Coordinating board meetings, preparing minutes, and tracking key actions. Ensuring compliance with investment covenants, reporting obligations, and corporate governance norms. Liaising with legal, tax, and audit advisors for portfolio-level support. - Fund Operations (optional depending on scope): Supporting internal fund processes such as fund audits, investor reporting, and capital calls. Working closely with investment and legal teams during new investments or follow-ons. - Customer Support for query resolutions: Supporting investors and founders with their queries related to fund updates, business updates, and any preemptive/exit updates. Maintaining good business harmony to streamline the business and reduce noise to improve CSAT and NPS. Ensuring SLAs are in place. - Exit/Preemptive and Shutdown related formalities: Supporting investors and founders with any events related to exit from the business and being aware of the processes like Exit, Shutdown process, and related compliance obligations to create transparency in the system. Qualifications & Skills: - 4-8 years of experience in venture capital, private equity, consulting, corporate strategy, or startup operations. - Strong financial modeling and business analysis capabilities. - Excellent communication and interpersonal skills to work effectively with founders and stakeholders. - Prior exposure to the Indian startup ecosystem is highly preferred. - CA/MBA or CFA/CPA is a plus.,