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# Investment Director at NLC Health Ventures

- **Company:** NLC Health Ventures
- **Location:** Amsterdam, Netherlands
- **Posted:** 2026-07-20
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-12
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/nlcventures/jobs/7809377003

## Job description

Investment Director

## About NLC

NLC Health Ventures is a health tech venture builder that creates and scales pre-seed and early-stage ventures across Europe.

At NLC, we foster a culture of collaboration and shared purpose, guided by our core values: Together, Open, Decisive, and Optimistic (TODO). We have a flat structure: your ideas and contributions matter more than your title, and we expect everyone to communicate openly and push back on hierarchy where it slows us down.

## Your Role

We are looking for an Investment Director to lead NLC's search for new healthtech investments across Europe: sourcing and evaluating opportunities, negotiating and structuring deals, and deploying capital with discipline against market need, scalability, buyer relevance, and exit potential. You will also expand NLC's institutional partnerships with healthtech corporates and investors, and play a supporting role in strengthening the performance of priority ventures already in the portfolio.

Your mission is to turn clinical and technological innovation into measurable commercial, financing and strategic outcomes, working closely with venture CEOs, healthtech corporates, investors and strategic buyers.

Core Responsibilities: Investment Sourcing and Execution

- Identify and evaluate new healthtech investment opportunities across Europe, applying rigorous diligence on market need, scalability, buyer relevance and exit potential.
- Structure and negotiate new investments: deal terms, licence agreements and capital deployment.
- Lead new venture incorporation: licence negotiation, CEO selection, legal incorporation and early strategy development.
- Build and expand institutional partnerships with healthtech corporates and investors to strengthen deal flow and co-investment opportunities.
- Managing team members to develop and execute venture creation and portfolio management strategy..
- Support NLC's fundraising for Fund V alongside Partners and Investor Relations team.

Supporting Responsibilities: Portfolio and Exit Support

- Contribute to portfolio performance reviews for priority ventures, alongside milestone tracking and prioritisation led by the venture team.
- Help define financing and exit pathways with CEOs for priority ventures, matched to strategic buyer and institutional market requirements.
- Support venture CEOs by sparring on strategy, team building, connecting them to development and clinical partners, service providers, advisors, capital providers, and strategic buyers.
- Contribute to exit processes for priority ventures: target identification, data room input and negotiation support.

## Your Profile

- 8 to 15 years of experience in healthtech investing, deal sourcing, diligence, structuring or venture building.
- Venture capital experience strongly preferred; comparable experience in corporate development, M&A or operating roles in high-growth healthtech companies also considered.
- Track record of sourcing, evaluating and closing early-stage healthtech investments.
- Deep healthtech domain expertise, with a sophisticated understanding of regulatory, reimbursement, clinical and commercial drivers.
- Strong commercial judgment: able to identify what creates enterprise value and where capital is best deployed.
- Experience negotiating licence agreements, term sheets and investment structures.
- Institutional capital fluency and the ability to communicate investment rationale clearly to investors and Partners.
- A natural connector who builds relationships and coalitions to source and close deals.
- Performance-oriented, decisive, commercially sharp, low ego and aligned with NLC's mission.
- Based in Europe, preference for the Netherlands given regular presence required in the Amsterdam office; flexibility to work remotely otherwise.

## What We Offer

- High-impact role with direct ownership of sourcing, structuring and closing NLC's healthtech investments, and a voice in shaping portfolio strategy.
- Flat structure and direct influence on NLC's strategy.
- Competitive salary with equity participation.
- Meaningful work: contribute to scaling ventures that bring life-changing healthcare innovations to patients.
- A seat at the table with global strategic buyers, institutional investors, and portfolio CEOs, plus direct mentorship from NLC's Partners.
- Hybrid working model, based in the Netherlands with regular Amsterdam office presence and flexibility to work remotely.

Diversity & Inclusion

At NLC, we believe diverse perspectives drive better outcomes. If you’re excited about this role but don’t meet every requirement, we encourage you to apply.

## About NLC Health Ventures

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: NLC Health Ventures is a world-leading healthtech venture builder and early-stage investor that finds, builds, and scales transformative health technologies to bring scientific discoveries to patients.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Venture Builder & Investor)
- **Headquarters**: Amsterdam, Netherlands
- **Founded**: 2014
- **Founders**: Not publicly available

## Core Business
- **Primary industry/industries**: Healthtech Venture Building & Early-Stage Investment; Therapeutics; Medtech (Orthopedics & Spine, Cardiovascular & IGT); New Markets (neonatal, respiratory, enterprise hospital software)
- **Target customers**: B2B; scientific founders, academic institutions, healthcare systems, and patients
- **Mission or purpose statement**: "To transform patients' lives by bringing groundbreaking scientific discoveries to life" and "to bring science to life by bridging the gap between scientific discoveries and market-ready solutions that transform patients’ lives."

## Products & Services
- **Venture Building**: NLC identifies scientific inventions and builds them into standalone healthtech ventures, providing operational, strategic, and funding support from concept to market.
- **Early-Stage Investment**: NLC manages captive funds and has raised over €190M+ for its portfolio ventures, investing across therapeutics, medtech, and new market technologies.
- **Portfolio Ventures**: NLC has built 110+ ventures, including XtRNA Bio (tRNA biotherapeutics for rare genetic diseases) and ROB'E (robotic endoscopy), among others.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed (private venture builder)
- **Key Metric**: Over €190M+ raised by NLC ventures; 110+ ventures built; 2M+ patients impacted; 1500+ technologies assessed annually
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Not publicly listed, but NLC is a certified B Corporation and part of its community of leaders. The company has 4 captive funds.
- **Growth Signals**: 40+ healthcare experts on staff, supported by over 1,000 experts globally; 110+ ventures built; 2M+ patients impacted; active hiring for senior leadership roles (CEO, CTO, Scientific Director) across portfolio companies.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Proprietary Venture-Building Model**: NLC’s unique approach uses data and learnings to systematically find inventions and create ventures at scale, bridging the gap between academic science and market-ready solutions.
- **Deep Healthcare Expertise**: A team of 40+ healthcare, finance, and business professionals, supported by 1,500+ global experts, provides unparalleled domain knowledge in therapeutics, medtech, and new markets.
- **Certified B Corporation**: Commitment to using business as a force for good, driving a global movement of leaders focused on impact.
- **Proven Track Record**: 110+ ventures built, €190M+ raised, and 2M+ patients impacted, demonstrating a repeatable model for success.

## Strategic Focus
- **Current priorities**: Expanding its portfolio across therapeutics (gene therapy, tRNA biotherapeutics), medtech (robotic endoscopy, orthopedics, cardiovascular), and new markets (neonatal, respiratory, enterprise hospital software). Actively hiring for senior leadership roles (CEO, CTO, Scientific Director) to scale portfolio companies toward first-in-human studies and market entry.
- **Direction for growth**: Deepening its platform-based approach (e.g., tRNA therapeutics for rare diseases) and expanding into new therapeutic modalities and delivery systems (AAV, LNP). Scaling ventures from preclinical to IND-enabling studies and clinical readiness.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: NLC emphasizes a culture of openness, transparency, and impact over titles. Core values include being open, optimistic, together, and decisive. The company is a certified B Corporation, committed to using business as a force for good.
- **Hybrid Working Model**: NLC offers a flexible hybrid working model, balancing office time and remote work. Many roles are remote-first (preferred Europe), with some requiring travel to partner sites.
- **Compensation & Benefits**: Staff Participation Plan (SPP) and Long Term Incentive Plan (LTIP) allow employees to share in the company's success. Yearly learning and development budget. Unlimited/unrecorded holidays. Primarily equity-based compensation for early-stage venture roles, with a modest base salary until fundraising.
- **Culture**: Values include openness, optimism, collaboration ("Together"), and decisiveness. The company prioritizes impact over titles and fosters a transparent, innovative environment. Certified B Corporation.
- **Team**: 40+ healthcare, finance, and business professionals, supported by over 1,000 experts worldwide. 144 total employees (as per Built In).
- **Diversity & Inclusion**: Committed to being an equal opportunity employer; believes diversity drives innovation.

## Sources
1. [nlc.health](https://www.nlc.health/)
2. [nlc.health/careers](https://www.nlc.health/careers)
3. [job-boards.greenhouse.io](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/nlcventures/jobs/7731781003)
4. [job-boards.greenhouse.io](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/nlcventures/jobs/7731839003)
5. [builtin.com](https://builtin.com/company/nlc-health-ventures)

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