SucSEED Fellowship Program 2025 [12 Months; Rolling Basis]: Apply Now!

Applications are invited for the SucSEED Fellowship Program 2025. The applications are accepted on rolling basis.

About SucSEED Fellowship

The SucSEED Fellowship Program is designed to cultivate entrepreneurial and venture capital (VC) talent by providing immersive, hands-on experience within the startup ecosystem. Focused on the fearless reimagination of the world, the program seeks to unite a group of passionate individuals and offer them a unique opportunity to gain direct exposure to the dynamics of startups. Guided by this philosophy, the Fellowship, hosted by the #SucSEEDfamily, strives to infuse fresh ideas and enthusiasm into the fund, challenging existing perspectives and expanding collective knowledge. The initiative aims to inspire participants to rethink possibilities and contribute to shaping the future of the VC-PE and entrepreneurial landscape.

About Fellowship

The 12-month full-time fellowship program is designed to provide fellows with comprehensive exposure to the operations of a venture capital fund. Participants are expected to gain a deep understanding of sectoral advancements, develop and maintain valuation analyses, and prepare detailed write-ups. Fellows will present investment ideas to the Gaming, SportsTech, and MediaTech Sectoral Committee, the Investment Management Team, partners, and investment committees to facilitate informed decision-making on early-stage deals. Post-investment, they will focus on scaling portfolio companies and delivering value to investors through successful exits.

For deserving candidates, the program offers a full time opportunity from SucSEED or our associate firms.

Role and Responsibilities

1) Buy-side Sectoral Research leading to Deal discovery-

• Market Insights: Conduct primary and secondary research to uncover trends in Gaming, SportsTech, and MediaTech, including eSports, immersive media, gaming economies, sports and fan engagement technologies
• Industry Engagement: Represent us at global and regional events such as IGDC and Gamicon, identifying trends and fostering connections

2) Discovery & Deal Evaluation-

• Pipeline Development: Partner with incubators, accelerators, and sourcing networks like ISB, STPI, and Aavishkar to discover startups that align with our investment thesis (inbound & outbound)
• Filter, Screen & interact with founders to appreciate their solutions.
• Collaborate with Sectoral Curators to help shape Fund’s roadmap & discover deals accordingly.

3) Investment Management & Deal Execution

• Startup Evaluation: Analyze product innovation, market opportunity, business projections & scalability, and competitive landscape
• Documentation: Prepare Investment Memos (IM) for the Investment Committee to identify investment interest and ensure IM covers all the salient points to get approval from the committees & LPs, delivered on time, as per the scope.
• Due Diligence: Support financial, technical & legal DD of potential investments, working with Curators and agencies.

4) Portfolio Management & Value Creation

• Scaling PortCos: Taking help from GSM Curators and work closely with GSM portfolio founders to develop an implementation plan, achieve Business Plans & drive Go-to-Market strategies, growth milestones and scale operations.
• Tracking Performance: Measure key financial and operational metrics against benchmarks & involve GSM Curators where needed. You will be expected to conduct in-depth benchmarking of valuation & operational metrics (vs. peer groups), and learn how other analyses could be helpful in Early-stage investments.
• Outreach: Create compelling materials to showcase portfolio significance to Clients, Partners and investors and help generate success.
• Strategic Engagement: Identify Clients, IB partners, corporate M&A teams and Private Equity who can bring maximum value towards the growth of our PortCos, with regular engagements through Portfolio Showcases.

5) Sell-side Research & to co-create an actionable Exit Strategy –

• Sell-Side Research – Pointed research to identify potential white spaces in market, ability to exercise an Exit using those gaps & value offered.
• Relationship & Engagement: Lead day-to-day execution of complex engagement with CorpDev Teams and Private Equity players across Pre-Deal phase, Deal Execution phase.
• Business Development: Identify & convert client opportunities by building relationships with Global PE/M&A Leadership, Client Account Teams, & Client stakeholders in PE/Corporates across geographies. Harness extensive knowledge combined with an integrated suite of methods, people & assets to help the Fund to create Value to Investors.

6) Thought Leadership & Value Creation for the Fund:

• Thought Leadership: Publish insights on GSM industry trends, create & engage community through actions and contribute to our intellectual capital creation.
• Practice Development: Contribute to the development of new assets / IP, thought capital & POVs, raising the profile of team & the PortCo leading to demand generation.

Program Structure

The fellowship is a 12-month stipend-based program focused on multidisciplinary learning. Fellows have the opportunity to engage with various aspects of the venture capital ecosystem in the GSM sector, while also working on 1-2 smaller sectors to gain broader exposure.

Benefits from Fellowships

• Build a career in VC ecosystem, with Rich, hands-on learning experience
• Access to our network of world-class founders, curators & operators
• An opportunity to act alongside entrepreneurs within a leading VC firm. Get stipend paid, while learning new domain & doing what you love.
• Actively participate in the disruption using technology
• Dynamic, multidisciplinary, young, collegial & yet professional environment with a great opportunity in a high growth sector
• Co-invest in the early round of a promising company, if you’d ever like to.
• The chance to get equity in other startups in our portfolio, based on the value-add that you might do, with this learning.

At the end of the program, you would have clear answers:

• if VC Career is suitable to you,
• if SucSEED can be a good VC Firm for you or
• if you can grow to become a Partner with SucSEED or
• if you need to venture out doing something else.

SucSEED will provide extensive support to your aspirations through strong references, if needed.

Qualifications and Required Skill Sets

• Who feel that in the next 12-24 months, an MBA programs shall give a boost to their professional journey & are open to INSTEAD explore alternative approaches to learn & grow, WITHOUT going through the MBA route.
• Who needs a new challenge & wants to get a taste of the VC industry, to switch careers.
• We expect the Fellowship candidates to complete 12-month to get the most out of our program, and would accept a lock-in period of one-year to ensure only committed candidates deserve to enter the program. The program combines structured mentorship with hands-on experience and offers tremendous opportunity to learn about VC & amplifies insights and understanding of the India’s startup ecosystem.

SucSEED provides a unique platform for accelerated learning & fast-tracking your career. Whilst we take our work seriously, we also love creating fun and fond memories.

We encourage you to apply as soon as possible. Interviews will happen on a rolling basis.

Candidate Profile

At SucSEED, we believe that diversity of experiences & backgrounds drives the quality of decision-making. We expect our Fellows to come from all walks of life. Beyond hard skills, we place emphasis on core attributes that define the way of working at SucSEED.

We require performance-oriented accountability and constant learning. We believe in building Venture Partners in next few years, from within by encouraging our team to challenge themselves and explore their deep potential.

• Likes Gaming / Sports / Media – Bachelors/ Master’s degree in a related field
• Candidates with 0-3 yrs experience in TMT Sector, Game Studio, Sport or Events Firm or in Media Sector, Movies, OTTs, Music Industry, or adjacencies, ideally in business analysis or similar, covering Indian or global markets will have an added advantage.
• Knowledge of Media convergence, Publications or distribution channels would be a plus.
• Likes Business, Finances & Accounting – Understands key concepts, financial statements & analysis.
• In addition to above, candidates with equity research & valuation skills are encouraged to apply. Candidates with exposure to M&A consulting (e.g., advisory, strategy, management) or direct deal experience (e.g., PE, CorpDev, CVC) may be plus.
• Extensive experience with project management including organization, prioritization and ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously & work well under pressure to drive tasks/ initiatives to completion.
• Excellent Communicator- ability to work with technical & non-technical stakeholders, with attention to detail & delivery method & swift negotiations.
• Exposure to fast-growing companies, digital startups, top consulting firm or IBs.
• Multifaceted- Open to contributing value that cuts across roles & disciplines.
• Curious– Relentless curiosity and hunger to learn, contribute & excel
• Entrepreneurial– An ambitious thinker and self-starter, who loves taking initiatives rather than working to achieve Work-life balance very early in life.
• Performance Oriented– Endeavour to deliver the highest quality of work in anything they take-up
• Team Player– who is able to collaborate effectively in group settings
• Based out of Hyderabad or is able to relocate to Hyd and WFO for atleast 5 days a 6 days week.

How to Apply?

• Please apply on this link or Email at opportunity[at]sucseed[dot]biz with your cover letters & resume. Use the same email for any questions you might have before your application.
• Work Location: SucSEED’s office is based at CIE at IIIT Hyd Campus at Gachibowli.

Deadline

Apply at the earliest as admissions are on rolling basis.

Click here to view the official notification for the SucSEED Fellowship Program 2025.