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 ₹10–100Cr 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 :

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 :

Your execution directly becomes product.

2. Investor Coordination (20%)

Your pattern recognition → becomes ML feature engineering data.

3. Process + AI Feedback Loop (10%)

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

12-Month Growth Map

Month 1–2 :

Learn the execution engine.

Document broken workflows.

Fix the pipeline.

Month 3–5 :

Close your first deal.

Identify the 3 workflows that MUST be automated first.

Month 6–9 : Own 10+ mandates.

Start co-designing the AI valuation + dataroom modules.

Month 9–12 :

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 :

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) :

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

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

What You Must Bring

Behavior That Wins Here

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.