Fellow – Fintech, Security & Regtech (FSR) Infrastructure

- Location: Hyderabad (Work From Office – CIE, IIIT-H Campus, Gachibowli)
- Duration: 12-Month (Full-Time Fellowship) onsite
- Stipend: Paid Fellowship

About SucSEED

SucSEED is the Investment Manager of SEBI-regulated SucSEED Indovation Fund, an AIF Category-I Venture Capital Fund. We partner with ambitious founders and build long-term institutional platforms in India’s early-stage ecosystem. We have also set up a Fund Management Entity in GIFT City Gujarat to launch our Fund-III in USD denomination.

We nurture entrepreneurial talent through capital and venture talent through ownership and responsibility.

About the Role The Management Fellowship is a structured 12-month program designed to develop future investment professionals through hands-on exposure to the venture capital lifecycle.The Fellow will work closely with the investment and portfolio team across sector research, deal sourcing, investment analysis, and portfolio value creation.

This Fellowship focuses on the Fintech, Security & Regtech (FSR) Infrastructure : sectors where Financial Ecosystem, trust, compliance, risk management, and distribution rails are core drivers of sustainable scale. We concentrate on commercially deployable subspaces such as embedded finance and next-gen payments, insurtech and credit underwriting and risk intelligence, RegTech for compliance/KYC/AML and fraud prevention, and security infrastructure for financial systems (identity, access controls, data protection, and transaction integrity).

The Fellowship is designed as a fast-track pathway into venture investing, aimed at nurturing high-potential early-career talent who can transition into long-term investment roles within the fund.

Job Mandate and Key Responsibilities

1) Buy-side Sectoral Research and Deal Discovery:

- Conduct structured primary and secondary research across Fintech, Security & Regtech (FSR) sub-sectors including Payments, Lending/Credit, Digital Banking, Embedded Finance, WealthTech, InsurTech, B2B Fintech/FinOps, Identity & Access, KYC, AML/Transaction Monitoring, Fraud/Risk, Compliance Automation, Governance, Financial Cybersecurity, and Regulatory Infrastructure.

- Map end-to-end value chains, threat surfaces, and distribution: including GTM partnerships (banks/NBFCs/TPAPs/PSPs/ISVs), product rails and tech stacks, security architecture (IAM, encryption, tokenisation, key management), and the regulatory frameworks shaping product design, auditability, and market access.

- Identify whitespace opportunities aligned with SucSEED’s thesis, prioritising categories where trust, controls, security-by-design, and compliance-by-design create defensible differentiation and scalable adoption.

- Work with sectoral curators to translate market signals into sector roadmaps, sector reports, and internal thesis documents driving clear sub-sector prioritisation and deal-screening lenses that align deal discovery with evolving fund priorities.

- Track emerging themes including AI-enabled underwriting and risk analytics, alternative data, fraud prevention, compliance automation and regulatory reporting, privacy-led architectures, DPI rails, and security layers that strengthen identity assurance, transaction integrity, monitoring, and governance across financial systems.

- Represent the fund across the ecosystem by attending relevant forums, building operator relationships, and strengthening partnerships with incubators and sourcing channels (e.g., IITM, IIITH,



IIMB and other accelerators) to continuously refine SucSEED’s sourcing roadmap and real-time discovery pipeline across inbound and outbound opportunities.

- Source, Filter and screen opportunities and engage with founders to understand the product, problem statement, and differentiation.

Outcome: Solid investment pipeline and differentiated sector insights

2) Investment Mgmt & Deal Execution

- Conduct deep-dive deal analysis by reviewing product capabilities, market size, competitive landscape, unit economics, GTM, and business projections to support a clear investment recommendation.

- Draft and refine investment memos that synthesize diligence into a decision-ready case (opportunity, thesis fit, risks, mitigants, and key open questions) to enable IC discussions and approvals.

- Coordinate inputs from founders, sectoral curators, and internal stakeholders to ensure memos capture the most salient insights and are delivered on time within defined scope and timelines.

- Support post-IC deal execution by coordinating transaction workstreams (term-sheet iterations, documentation checklists, data-room readiness, and stakeholder follow-ups) to help drive timely closure.

Outcome: High-quality investment analysis and timely closure of Series A, Series B deals

3) Thought Leadership, Value Creation and Community

- Contribute to the development and publishing of new assets / IP, thought capital & POVs, raising the profile of the team & the PortCos leading to demand generation.

- Create a Community of various stakeholders (Incubators, Accelerators, Funds, Regulators, Institutions, Curators Investors, Corporations, etc) to create value in that sector and leverage them effectively to conduct Sectoral Research and design fund roadmap.

- You’ll get the exposure to handle responsibilities by working closely on Investor Relationship (retail, institutional and Family offices)

- Work on Events and Collaborations to create better outreach, and create sell-side opportunities towards exits and work on Marketing and Communication strategy to have better brand recall with the external world at every level and help our Portfolio companies with various Partnership outreach.

Outcome: Increased fund and portfolio visibility that drives stronger ecosystem relationships, investor momentum, and qualified inbound demand.

4) Portfolio Management & Value Creation / Scaling of PortCos

- Work with the Portfolio Manager to Track & report on key performance metrics to senior management. 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.

- Help the Portfolio Manager to Identify Clients, Partners & Investors who can bring value towards the growth of our PortCos, with regular engagements through Portfolio Showcases.

Outcome: Stronger portfolio performance visibility and stakeholder engagement enabling better decisions, stronger investor communication, and higher-value partnerships for PortCo growth.*

5) Sell-side Sectoral Research & Create Exits





- Support day-to-day execution of complex engagements with CorpDev/client teams and Private Equity stakeholders across pre-deal, deal execution, and value-creation/scaling phases for portfolio companies.

- Contribute to sell-side sector deep dives by researching themes and comparables, producing sector reports/POVs, and supporting portfolio exit roadmaps (buyer mapping, positioning, timing signals) to enable value realization.

- Assist in identifying and converting client opportunities by building and nurturing relationships with global PE/M&A; leadership, client account teams, and key PE/corporate stakeholders across geographies to strengthen deal flow and partnership pipelines.

- Contribute to developing new assets/IP, thought capital, and POVs that raise the profile of the team and portfolio companies and support demand generation.

Outcome: Accelerated portfolio value creation and exits through stronger execution support, sharper sector positioning, and expanded PE/M&A; relationship-driven partnerships

Program Structure

- 12-month full-time Fellowship
- Work From Office (minimum 5 days in a 6 day week)
- Hyderabad-based (relocation required if not local)
- Strong preference for candidates committed to completing the full term

Ideal Candidate Profile (ICP)

- Early-career professionals evaluating venture capital as a long-term career path, including those considering MBA programs in the next 12–24 months.

- Candidates should hold a bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Technology, Economics, Finance, Business, or a related field, with 0–3 years of professional or relevant internship experience.

- Prior exposure to FinTech/Security/ RegTech (payments, lending, wealth/insurance, banking infrastructure, data security & Privacy) is preferred, along with solid analytical experience (business analysis, market research, financial modelling, risk & Regulatory compliance, strategy) and familiarity with regulated GTM realities—compliance-led product design, stakeholder-heavy enterprise sales cycles (banks/NBFCs/insurers), procurement/vendor onboarding, audits/certifications (e.g., ISO/SOC), and high data security/ privacy expectations is an added advantage.

- Strong foundation in business, finance, and accounting, with prior full-time or internship experience in analytical work across market research, business analysis, financial modelling, strategy, or related roles preferred.

Core Attributes

- Excellent Communicator

- Passion for Tech

- Multifaceted and Curious

- Entrepreneurial

- Performance Oriented

- Team Player

What you will Gain

- Build a career in the VC ecosystem, with Rich, hands-on learning experience and gain access to our network of world-class founders, curators & operators
- An opportunity to act alongside entrepreneurs within a leading venture Capital ecosystem. Get a stipend paid, doing what you love.

- Dynamic, multidisciplinary, young & qualified setting and a great opportunity in a high-growth sector

- End-to-end exposure to early-stage investing sector research, deal evaluation, valuation work, and IC-ready memos/pitches.

- Hands-on exposure to portfolio value creation and exit readiness KPI tracking/benchmarking, growth partnerships, positioning/buyer mapping, and investor updates.

- Co-invest in the foundational round of a promising company, if you’d ever like to

Top performers may be considered for extended roles within SucSEED or associated ecosystem entities.

📌 Fellowship - Fintech, Security & RegTech (FSR) Infrastructure - 2026 cohort (Telangana)
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