Courtside Ventures is the leading early-stage fund focused on Sports, Lifestyle, and Gaming. We invest in passionate entrepreneurs.
About the role
We are hiring an Associate to work directly with the investment team across the full lifecycle of a deal — from the first cold outreach to a founder, through diligence and the investment committee, into portfolio support and follow-on decisions. This is a hands-on seat within a small team. You will own workstreams, not slides. You will be in front of founders immediately, and your name will be on the thinking that comes out of this firm. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.
What they're looking for
- Based in New York City or willing to split time in NYC (in office). Our categories are relationship businesses, and this one is run in person
- Independence in your work. You prefer to operate autonomously and are comfortable handling your work streams without oversight or hand-holding
- Genuine interest and fluency in sports, entertainment, and consumer. You should have opinions about where these categories are going and be able to defend them
- Strong writing. Most of the work product of this job is prose
More about this role
Courtside Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm investing at the intersection of sports, entertainment, and consumer. We were founded in 2016 on a thesis most investors were missing: the real opportunity in sports wasn’t the teams, leagues, or venues themselves, but the media, commerce, tech infrastructure, gaming, and health platforms built around them, serving fans who spend more on the category every year.
A decade later, that thesis has produced a portfolio of 130 companies, including The Athletic (acquired by The New York Times), StockX (exited), Draftea, Rythm Health, and Beam (acquired by Microsoft), and has returned real capital to our LPs. Today we manage $300M+ across our funds.
We have kept the team deliberately small. That is a strategy, not a constraint: everyone here sees deals end to end, and the person in this seat will have more responsibility in year one than an associate at a large platform fund gets in three. This is a role with high agency, high expectations, and high upside.
We are hiring an Associate to work directly with the investment team across the full lifecycle of a deal — from the first cold outreach to a founder, through diligence and the...
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