About
Venture has no hiring season. That is what makes it hard.
Venture Capital Interview Prep reports on how European funds actually hire juniors — one seat at a time, usually without a posting, and on no fixed calendar. We write down which funds have run a real intake, what they asked, and what the job turned out to be.
The problem this site was built for
Most funds hire when somebody leaves. There is no on-cycle window, rarely a search firm running a visible process, and often no advertised role. A candidate can prepare hard for months and still be preparing for a format the fund in question has never used.
The second problem is that the title means almost nothing. An analyst seat at a seed fund in Berlin and a growth seat in London share a name and share very little else — different work, different exercise, different money, different exit.
What we report
Fund by fund: whether a structured junior intake exists and when it last ran, who sits on the panel, whether the exercise is an investment memo, a deck teardown, a sourcing task or a market-sizing question, and what the seat pays once you have it. Where a fund has never published any of that, we say so rather than guessing.
Every fund figure carries a date
Fund sizes, team headcount and portfolio counts change with every close and every departure. Each number here names where it came from and the day it was true, so a reader can tell a current figure from a historical one.
Somebody else re-reads the sources
Nothing goes up on one person's reading of a page. A second editor opens each link, sets the claim beside what is actually there, and repeats the exercise every time the article is revised.
No fund pays for coverage
We have no relationship with any fund, accelerator or search firm named on this site. Where a link points at a paid product, the sentence containing it says so.
The work is directed by our lead editor, Nadia Brandt — an editorial pen name. The full method, including how corrections are handled, is in our editorial standards. Venture Capital Interview Prep is operated by the company named in our Impressum.
Start with the guides.
Four in-depth guides on the funds, breaking in, the interview, and money and career.