# Venture Capital CV Template

**Prepared for an Antler application.**
The guidance below is the same for every fund. What changes is what you put in it, and the
Antler guide at https://venturecapitalinterview.com/antler-interview is where to work that out.

One page. ATS-readable. Built for analyst and associate seats at European venture funds.

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## Why venture CVs are read differently

A buyout or banking CV is read for **execution**: deals closed, models built, hours survived. A
venture CV is read for **judgement and access** — whether you have opinions about markets worth
hearing, and whether you can reach founders nobody has reached yet.

Both matter. Only one of them is usually on the page.

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## The layout

```
NAME
City · email · LinkedIn · one URL that is yours (writing, a product, a track record)

EXPERIENCE
  Firm — Role                                                    Month YYYY – Month YYYY
  · One line on what the business was and your scope.
  · A result with a number in it.
  · A judgement you made, and what happened.

EDUCATION
  Institution — Degree, class                                                       YYYY

MARKET VIEWS
  Two or three lines. A sector you follow, a company you would back, and why.

ADDITIONAL
  Languages · technical skills · anything that generates deal flow
```

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## The section most CVs are missing

**Market views.** Three lines near the bottom saying what you follow and what you would back.

It is the only part of the page that shows the thing the job is actually for. An interviewer who
reads it has a question ready before you sit down, which is the entire point: you have chosen what
the first ten minutes are about.

Name a company, not a category. "Vertical SaaS in logistics" is a sector. "I would have led the seed
in <company>, and here is the one thing that would have to be true" is a view.

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## What each background needs to show

| Coming from | Already obvious | Prove this instead |
|---|---|---|
| Investment banking | Modelling, diligence, deadline discipline | That you can find a company nobody sent you |
| Consulting | Structure, market sizing, communication | That you can decide with a third of the data |
| Operating or product | Judgement, founder credibility | Portfolio construction: ownership, reserves, the waterfall |
| Founding | Both of the above | That you actually want the investor seat, not the operator one |

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## The checklist

- [ ] **One page.** Two pages reads as an inability to prioritise, which is the job.
- [ ] **No photo, no age, no marital status.** Standard in the UK and US; still common in DACH CVs and still worth dropping.
- [ ] **Numbers on results**, not adjectives on effort.
- [ ] **A market-views section.** Three lines. Non-negotiable.
- [ ] **One personal URL** that shows work — writing, a product, an investment record.
- [ ] **Reverse chronological.** No functional CVs.
- [ ] **Plain formatting.** No columns, no tables, no text boxes, no headers or footers. Parsers drop them.
- [ ] **PDF**, named `Firstname-Lastname-CV.pdf`.
- [ ] **Every claim survives a follow-up question.** Assume each line becomes one.

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## The five lines to delete

1. "Passionate about technology and innovation."
2. "Excellent communication and interpersonal skills."
3. Any objective or summary that could sit on someone else's CV.
4. A skills bar chart rating you 4/5 at Excel.
5. Anything you would not want to be asked about for ten minutes.