Investment Banking Associate

Investment Banking Associate Samaveda Capital

Hyderabad | Early Employee Equity | AI-Native Investment Bank

?8.4L ? ?12L base + bonuses + ESOPs

The Role in 15 Seconds

We're building India's first AI-native investment bank for the ?10100Cr mid-market the most chaotic, opaque, underbanked segment in Indian finance.

Your job:

Be the human side of the AI-human hybrid model we're building.

Execute deals today, and teach the AI what to automate tomorrow.

Market we're exploiting:

95%+ deals fail due to poor execution:

• 95%+ deals fail due to poor execution
• Promoters sit on messy financials or incomplete GST returns
• Valuations are guesswork
• Advisors are unstructured
• Due diligence is manual chaos
• Investors don't trust any numbers under ?100Cr topline

AI changes this. But only if you have the dealflow, domain knowledge, and structured data to train it. That's what Samaveda is building.

Vision

We are building a full-stack AI-driven M&A infrastructure layer for India, to solve the pain points faced by 6.3 Millions SMEs.

Where We Are Today

6-months in:

• 10+ live mandates, Retainers (cleantech, manufacturing, Textiles)
• 12-month Pilot partnership with an enterprise client
• Innopreneurs Top 100 Startups in India
• Active inbound dealflow
• AI valuation engine v1 built, MVP of v2 underway with real companies
• Pipeline of 100Cr+

We are early but at the right moment in the AI curve.

Your Role (AI x Deals x Systems = Leverage)

1. Deal Execution (70%)

This is the data that trains our AI.

You will:

• Convert messy promoter files into clean, structured datarooms
• Extract insights from GST, P&L, BS, cash cycles
• Build valuation models that later become automated templates
• Prepare investor-ready memos that become training data
• Run closing mechanics and timelines

Your execution directly becomes product.

2. Investor Coordination (20%)

• Sector-level investor mapping
• Preparing IC-quality memos
• Running follow-ups
• Capturing investor behavior ? fed into matchmaking engine

Your pattern recognition ? becomes ML feature engineering data.

3. Process + AI Feedback Loop (10%)

• Build SOPs
• Standardize deal workflows
• Document repetitive tasks that should be automated
• Collaborate with CTO to convert human workflows ? automation pipelines

You are not a user of the product you are the co-architect of what gets automated.

12-Month Growth Map

Month 12:

Learn the execution engine.

Document broken workflows.

Fix the pipeline.

Month 35:

Close your first deal.

Identify the 3 workflows that MUST be automated first.

Month 69:

Own 10+ mandates.

Start co-designing the AI valuation + dataroom modules.

Month 912:

Become Head of Deal Ops, controlling both execution and automation priorities.

This is not an analyst ? associate ? VP ladder.

Comp Structure Base Salary

?70K/month ? Auto-bumps to ?1L/month after 3 closed deals.

Deal Bonuses (Tiered)

0.75% ? 1% ? 1.5% ? 2% depending on:

• execution
• sourcing
• speed
• complexity

ESOPs:

1%1.5%, 4-year vesting, 1-year cliff (depending on experience)

You're not trading labor for salary. You're trading sweat for infrastructure equity.

Year 1 Earnings Model

Conservative (3 deals, ?37.5L avg fee):

• Base: ?10.2L
• Bonuses: ?1.2L
• Total Cash: ?11.4L
• ESOPs (paper value): ?5-10L
• Total Comp: ?16-20L

Strong Performance (5 deals, 1 self-sourced, ?45L avg fee):

• Base: ?12L
• Bonuses: ?2.6L
• Total Cash: ?14.6L
• ESOPs (paper value): ?5-10L
• Total Comp: ?19-24L

This beats most boutique IBs when you factor in equity upside + promotion speed.

What You Must Bring

• 35 years in IB / M&A / PE / VC
• Strong modeling
• Real deal execution experience
• Hunger to build
• Comfort with ambiguous, unstructured data
• Ability to think in systems (not just tasks)

Behavior That Wins Here

• High ownership
• Relentless follow-up
• Clean thinking
• Speed with accuracy
• Bias for structure
• Ability to work fast in messy environments
• Curiosity about automation and systems

What We Are

? AI-native execution shop

? Revenue-first

? Lean, honest, high-velocity

? Obsessed with solving India's SME M&A gap

? Building something India doesn't have yet

If you want ownership, speed, AI leverage, and the chance to build something India doesn't have apply.