Head of Research

Head of Research

Munich (Berlin or London possible) · Two-year role · Starting summer 2027 (or sooner)

Most people will hear about the companies that define the next decade once they've raised a Series B. You'll know them before they have a name.

We're looking for one exceptional graduate to become Revent's Head of Research: to work out, before almost anyone else, where the most important companies of the next decade will come from, and then to help us find and back the founders building them. You won’t be a background player; your work will decide where real money goes.

About Revent

Revent is a Day 0 venture capital firm backing obsessives on a mission. We lead or co-lead pre-seed rounds with €1-3M checks, mostly in Europe, from Berlin, Munich and London, and we're deploying a fresh $130M fund. Our founders have gone on to raise from Sequoia (Avelios) and Lightspeed (tem energy), with several more top-tier rounds we can't announce yet, and our fund performance is benchmarked in the top 10%.

We have a strong view of where the world is heading. AI and automation are rewiring how everything works. The companies that matter most over the next decade will be the ones that give people and institutions safety, meaning and agency through this shift, or rethink the inputs civilization runs on: energy and robotics, health and the human side of AI, and AI security. We'd rather be early and right than safe and late and absolutely love working with founders from the earliest, chaotic days.

The Role

Most VC research produces market maps nobody reads. Ours decides where we invest. Every investment we make starts with a thesis: a view on where a market is about to inflect, why now, and what kind of founder can win it. Your job is to build those theses, pressure-test them against experts, data, and our own instincts, and turn them into a short list of companies we should search for, founders we should be talking to, and ideas to incubate before anyone else. Ultimately, the goal of your research is an investment, which starts with the team having a prepared mind and a clear point of view.

A typical week might look like this: an 8am call with a PhD student in Zurich whose side project might become an exciting company. A half-day pulling apart a market everyone thinks is too crowded and finding the one layer that nobody's building but really matters. Writing a memo about where we should be spending our time that you have to defend in front of the partners on Thursday, and then turn into a point of view that you get into the hand of the most relevant founders and investors in the ecosystem. An agent you built over the weekend that surfaces three founders we'd never have found otherwise and helps us offer them something useful. In short, there’s a lot of variation, high-agency, and the role itself is very high-impact. You’ll work with all three partners, and have regular check-in’s with one of the GPs.

Research, most of your time

• Go deep, fast. Take a market like grid flexibility or agent security, pull it apart, find the real bottleneck and opportunities, validate them with people in the space, and come back with a point of view and thoughts on the founders we should meet.
• Make the case in writing. Turn what you’ve learned into opinionated theses the partners can act on, then sharpen them further for the outside world. You’ll contribute significantly to our Substack, reports, and in our letters to investors. Your strongest cases should become our next investments.
• Build and research with AI. Use the most helpful AI tools, and build your own agents and workflows on top of them to move extremely quickly. You’ll collaborate with other team members building out our core AI infra to ensure we get maximal leverage and channel all insights back into Revent’s core ‘brain.’

Everything research feeds into

• Find founders before anyone else in labs, research groups, GitHub and hackathons across Europe and beyond.
• Work on live deals with the partners: customer calls, diligence, investment memos, and a voice during investment decisions.
• Arm our founders with research and network connections from these activities that give them an edge, be it an insight or a new customer.
• Work across the portfolio to understand, measure and communicate the impact our portfolio is making to the outside world and to our investors.

How we Work

You’ll be based in one of our offices, most likely Munich, otherwise in our Berlin hub or London, and we’re together in person most days because the best ideas still tend to happen at a whiteboard. You’ll travel a fair bit to wherever great builders are clustering and to the people who can meaningfully change how you see a market.

The pace is intense but the mood is optimistic, a combination we’ve found surprisingly sustainable. We think of it as a marathon with sprints, so we push very hard when it matters and recover well when it doesn’t.

A handful of values shape how we actually work, day to day. We care a lot about excellence, whether that’s how we show up for our founders and LPs, how well prepared we are for a call, or the quality of a memo or a Substack. We work with real focus, because there’s always more opportunity than time, so we keep asking which few things will genuinely move the needle. We’re honest with each other, our founders and our community, which means saying what we think directly and without fear, but always doing so kindly. And we row as one team: wins and losses are shared, everyone helps everyone, and the goal is to build the fastest crew boat on the water.

About You

You're graduating in 2027 from a top program in engineering, the sciences, or social science/economics, and you're probably weighing offers that look a lot safer than this one. You're the person who reads the paper everyone else skims and then understands what implications the results have for the next company that needs to be built. You form opinions fast and argue for them hard, but you revise them the moment the evidence turns. You already use AI to work faster and go deeper than most people around you, and you've built tools of your own to automate large chunks of your own work.

You're competitive and you want to be right before anyone else. If you're obsessed with something, we want to hear about it, and we want to know how you think about your own mission too.

What it Takes

We're a small team of obsessives on a mission and we play to win. You'll own real work from week one, defend your views to the partners, and live with the outcome. We're asking for two full years, because that's what it takes to get genuinely great at this, and we'll invest heavily in getting you there. Thereafter, your role could either transition within the firm (e.g. to a full-time investing role), or we’ll help you find an amazing next step. Most of our alums go on to start their own companies.

What You’ll Get

• Ownership of real decisions within your first weeks, and direct, daily collaboration with the partners.
• A view of the next generation of companies years before the market catches on.
• Your name on our research and Substack pieces, and a public voice in the ecosystem from day one.
• A network that spans founders, top-tier co-investors and the people building Europe’s next wave of companies, including at our annual founder summit.
• After two years, a path into our investment team, or the judgment, network and backing to found a company of your own.
• Compensation of €60,000 - €75,000 depending on qualifications (i.e. bachelors vs. masters), a performance-based bonus, perks that ensure you can perform at your best, and carried interest in the fund.

Practicalities

Full-time, starting summer 2027 or sooner if you are available earlier, ideally in Munich, with Berlin or London possible. You must have the right to work full-time within the EU or the UK. We are not sponsoring visas.

How to Apply

Send your LinkedIn profile or CV and max one page on a market you believe is about to be rewired: what’s changing, what’s the opportunity, who should build what, and why now. Make an argument, tell us what we’re overlooking at the moment.

In the email, please also include your earliest available start date and whether you already have the right to work full-time within the EU or the UK.

We review applications on a rolling basis, so apply early. Applications should go to Recruiting@revent.vc. Note that we will confirm receipt and will get back to you if we’d like to start a process.

The process: conversations with the team, a research case, and time together likely in person.