At Wintermute our mission is to enable, empower and advance the truly decentralized world for more transparent and efficient markets and products. We do this by providing liquidity algorithmically across most trading venues in crypto, supporting all major centralized and decentralized trading venues, AMMs, RFQs, aggregators and chains. Wintermute is also offering best-in-class OTC products to crypto native as well as traditional financial institutions.
Wintermute is actively participating in the building and development of the blockchain ecosystem through investments from Wintermute Ventures, partnerships and co-development with upcoming protocols and incubation of own projects. We act as official liquidity providers for a large number of the world’s highest profile blockchain projects.
Wintermute is a hyper-growth highly profitable business with a very ambitious vision and roadmap. We are backed by Lightspeed, Pantera Capital, Sino Global Capital,Blockchain.com Ventures, Avon Ventures by Fidelity Investments, DeFi Alliance and other top tier investors. We are run as a technology company, not a financial service provider, and we build our culture around core values of ambition, collaboration, entrepreneurship, transparency and meritocracy.
About Wintermute Ventures
Wintermute Ventures is the investment arm of the Wintermute, through its investment arm, Wintermute Ventures, aims to contribute to the advancement of the decentralized world.
As a value-adding investor, Wintermute Ventures fosters innovation in early-stage Web3 projects by developing strategic relationships and contributing to positive outcomes through its deep expertise in DeFi and Cefi. Since 2020, it has invested in more than 100 projects.
About the role
This is internship is specifically targeted at students who have graduated within the last year (Bachelors, Masters, MBA or post-graduate) in Tech, Business, Sciences, Finance, Economics or a related field.
Additionally, the candidate should have significant personal experience in crypto. The internship start date and duration can be flexibly structured around your availability between October to January 2024, however we require a full-time commitment anywhere between 2-4 months from you.
You will get exposure to portfolio management, see live deal flow, contribute to protocol analysis, conduct independent project research and interact with multiple stakeholders across our network.
Responsibilities
- Ad hoc projects - take ownership of ad hoc projects that help the desk optimise their work flow. This could be related to portfolio management, investment sourcing, deal flow analytics or marketing/branding initiatives.
- Research - Conduct deep-dive comprehensive research on various chains and DeFi protocols.
- Admin - Take ownership of logging trades to account for portfolio activity. This extends to labelling on-chain activity (trades, staking rewards, airdrops, etc.) for accounting purposes and liaising with internal / external parties including trading desks, middle office, finance functions and administrative support.
- Portfolio management - proactively identify new investment opportunities and recommendations (buying, staking, LP’ing)
Hard skills requirements
- A business fluent level of English.
- Advanced command of Excel/Google Sheets.
- A proven track record of personal on-chain activity, especially in the DeFi space.
- Strong written and analytical skills for deal analysis and internal reporting.
- Familiarity with analysing on-chain transactions using block explorers across multiple chains.
- The ability to think analytically and strategically about investment decisions and ongoing work with existing portfolio companies.
- The ability to work well within a team and be self-guided on a day-to-day basis.
Bonus requirements
- A technical background or experience in data science is a plus.
- Strong network in crypto is a plus.
- An understanding of venture capital and crypto deal terms.
Perks
- Competitive compensation
- Flat company structure: your ideas get heard by the right people very quickly
- Work alongside industry experts and connect with professionals across various departments.
- Engaging projects offering accelerated responsibility and ownership compared to traditional finance environments.
- Work flexibility: This is a remote role given the venture team is remote but you can chose to come to the office in either London or Singapore (subject to work permits)
- Dynamic and Multicultural work environment (20 nationalities and counting!)
