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Lead Investor

💰 $100,000 - $175,000 📅 11/16/2023

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Job Description

**Your Mission**

As an outgoing professional, you overcome objectives with confidence in your
role and are an epic storyteller of our outstanding company plans and
developing product lines.

As the investment lead, you spearhead the operational and strategic facets of
our capital investment programs. You play a central role in each funding round
to have a significant influence on the direction and strategy of the company.

As lead investor, you are responsible for coordinating and organizing each
funding round, including identifying and recruiting other investors,
negotiating the terms of the investment, and closing the deals.

You are typically a person who provides the largest amount of funding in our
next investment round, and who takes an active role in the company,
influencing future investments.

**Key skills**

Exceptional communication skills: networking, negotiation, and conflict-
resolution abilities.

Demonstration of phenomenal interpersonal skills along with excellent verbal
and written communication skills that are a necessity for public speaking, and
pitching

Strong analytical and problem-solving skills: excellent time-management and
organizational skills.
Excellent numerical skills: Work to a budget and reach financial targets on
time, regularly reporting on both to stakeholders, and investors

Negotiation skills: You need to possess the ability to persuade potential
investors of the need, and the return, and answer all questions about the
investment opportunity

Well-read: Avid study of books like ‘Pitch Anything’ by Oren Klaff

**Qualifications & Relevant Experience**

You have a solid track record of raising millions of private funding for
software companies

Experience in fundraising is highly desirable. However, experience in sales
can be an effective substitute. Any experience where the public or suppliers
have to be persuaded to make a purchase indicates a transferrable skill

**Responsibilities**

• Organise and take part in strategy and planning meetings with other members
of the fundraising team

• Effectively convey the organization’s mission, vision, and programs to
potential investors

• Write internal reports, analyzing fundraising progress on a monthly basis

• Undertake research on prospects who could be interested in investing

• Refine the pitch deck, business plans, and marketing strategy

• Cold call potential investors and build relationships with them

• Strategize and successfully execute fundraising campaigns

• Update investors on how their money is being used

**Key Duties**

• Securing funding: The lead investor is typically the person or organization
that puts up the largest amount of money in an early round of funding. Having
a lead investor on board can make it easier to attract other investors, who
are more likely to invest if they see that someone with expertise and
experience has already put money into the company.

• Setting investment terms: The lead investor is responsible for negotiating
the terms of the investment with the company and other investors. This
includes supporting the valuation of the company, education on investment
processes and any special terms or conditions attached to the investment.

• Providing guidance and support: The lead investor may provide valuable
guidance and support as the company grows. This can include strategic advice
as well as introductions to other investors. A lead investor can also help
avoid common pitfalls and navigate the challenges of scaling the business.

• Offering industry expertise: A lead investor with experience in your
industry can offer valuable insights and advice that can help your company
succeed. They may be able to provide access to industry connections and
knowledge that isn’t accessible otherwise.

• Mitigating risk: help mitigate risk by conducting due diligence on the
company and its business model. This can help ensure that the investment is
sound and that the company has a solid plan for growth.

• Pitch a bank-ready business plan containing a subscription offer, and
successfully close 3-additional investors

**Milestones**

1. Close Stage 3 Rounds 1 & 2 (as defined by our Term Sheet)

2. Secure revolving production budgets for ongoing development

**Required Skills and Qualifications**

• At least three years of experience in fundraising, sales, or marketing

• A passion for research and discovery

• Highly-motivated individual

**Preferred skills**

• Experience in communications, business, and public relations or related
fields

• Experience raising and/or investing in tech, and/or video games

• Owner of a large list of wealthy individuals

• Confidence in public speaking

**About the Position**

You embody a love and passion for working in entertainment that is truly good
for gamers. You work remotely. You track your own time. You will begin part-
time. After a 3-month trial period, you may go full-time, continually paid up
to 40-to-50 hours a week at any time as proven and required at the company’s
discretion. IMU Studios Inc. is in a growth phase, seeking various roles for
contract work.

**About the Game**

Our cinematic open-world hero shooter video game takes place on Nebulous
Prime, a small planet in the beautiful Stellar Jewel Box nebula. Filled with
playable stories, meaningful quests, arenas, and game challenges. Allowing
players to freely explore and discover all of the beautiful details as
revealed. TEAM IMU creates environments that players can experience in awe,
all built on the visual power and performance of the Unreal Engine.

**About the Company**

IMU Studios creates refreshing experiences for gamers. Thrilling, fun
adventures that shake the foundations of the industries we enter. We have
assembled a team of video game underdogs, all hungry to be the next heroes.
Together we are pushing everything to be more exciting!

IMU Studios was founded when game developer Robert Strutin’s market research
revealed fresh opportunities in the video game industry, crossing market lines
of gameplay and revenue models. Our home studio is nestled in the beautiful,
inspiring mountains of British Columbia, Canada, with active Team Members
contributing worldwide. Our expert team of game developers and artists are
truly passionate about their craft and producing profound entertainment
experiences. We create exhilarating video games that enrich your life and
empower you as a player.

Tell us who you are, what you do, and why you would like to join.

* _Apply *_

Email: [[email protected]](mailto:[email protected])

Skype, etc.: email your Skype or online contact and we’ll add you

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IMU Studios focuses on Mobile, Games, Video Games, Mobile Games, and PC
Gaming. Their company has offices in Canada, British Columbia, and Balfour.
They have a mid-size team that's between 51-200 employees. To date, IMU
Studios has raised $14.113M of funding; their latest round was closed on
January 2023 at a valuation of $49.395M.

You can view their website at <http://imustudios.com> or find them on
[Twitter](https://twitter.com/imustudios),
[Facebook](https://www.facebook.com/imustudios), and
[LinkedIn](https://ca.linkedin.com/in/imustudios).