Research Jobs in Web3

Folius Ventures is an APAC-focused, open-ended, evergreen Web3 / blockchain-related fund dedicated to investing in applications as well as the enabling infrastructures and tools through a portfolio of digital assets and equity positions in blockchain companies. Folius was founded by Jason Kam (aka “Mapleleafcap”) with extensive public equities experience and recently launched on September 1st, 2021.

We are looking to bring on an investment research partner: a 1st-principle thinker who will be working with the founder closely to help identify, evaluate, and underwrite public and private Web3 investments.

A bit more about us: Link3.to/foliusventures

Responsibilities:

• Invest: identify, underwrite, and oversee public and private investment opportunities
• Buidl: explore, advise, and/or directly contribute to Web3 projects
• Evangelize: champion key theses to build our (and your) narrative-defining reputation

Compensation:

• Competitive to NYC Long/Short hedge fund and investment-banking base-salary
• Adequate GP profit-share, deal carry, and discretionary bonus

Qualifications:

• 1+ years of investment experience and >= 3 months of Web3 exploration experience
• Respectable research depth and mental framework
• Strong intellectual horsepower
• Good cultural fit - curious, self-motivated, long-term-focused.
• Sound writing skills (for both internal communication and external research publication)
• Native fluency in >= 1 language(s) aside from English preferred
• Additional domain expertise aside from investing preferred
• Extensive Web3 network and native-knowledge preferred

What we can offer:

• Mundane, non-research, and non-investment tasks will be kept at a minimum (to the extent we can) – the investment infrastructure is set up where your time will be 100% focused on investing, buidling, and evangelizing.
• Autonomy and responsibility - you will be driving key decisions, help build the firm, and really define who we are.
• You will share meaningful upside economics. Open to creative arrangements.
• You can be based anywhere in the world.