Chief of Staff, FoodLabs
General Partner
Venture studio and investor
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Venture studio and investor
21-100 employees
Be an early applicant
21-100 employees
Company mission
To have a positive impact on the future of food, nutrition, and health.
Role
Who you are
- Worked in venture capital, startups, strategy consulting, or as a Chief of Staff to a founder, GP, or similar executive
- Supported strategic operations, fundraising, or internal planning at a fast-moving firm or fund
- Led complex projects or org-wide initiatives across multiple stakeholders
- Exceptionally organized and structured — with a bias for clarity and completion
- A strong communicator — written, verbal, and visual
- Comfortable with high trust, high stakes environments — and can operate with discretion and judgment
- Entrepreneurial in mindset, but detail-obsessed when it matters
- Obsessed with making things work better, faster, and smarter — across people, tools, and processes
What the job involves
- This is a high-trust, high-impact role at the core of FoodLabs
- As Chief of Staff to the General Partner, you’ll act as a strategic and operational right hand, helping the GP execute across firm operations, fundraising, platform strategy, and internal alignment
- This is not a junior investor or admin role
- It’s about seeing around corners, owning complex projects, and helping the fund run at its best
- You’ll have visibility across the entire organisation — investment team, studio, venture development, portfolio - and play a critical role in setting and tracking priorities
- You’ll work directly with our Partners and senior leadership to help FoodLabs scale as one of Europe’s leading early-stage venture capital firms
- Act as a true right-hand to the General Partner — prepare meetings, coordinate follow-ups, and drive initiatives
- Own and evolve a firm-wide project overview to track progress and ensure accountability
- Develop and launch special initiatives that raise the bar at FoodLabs (e.g., an angel program, founder track, platform tooling upgrades)
- Lead planning processes across teams — quarterly/annual goals, cross-functional coordination, and alignment tracking
- Own meeting preparation and documentation for GP-level meetings, Investment Committee, and internal strategy reviews
- Track meaningful fund and portfolio metrics, improve internal reporting, and drive process improvements
- Lead or support firmwide initiatives: from team offsites to infrastructure changes and events
- Optimise internal systems (e.g., Affinity, G-Drive hygiene, Notion, AI tooling)
- Work closely with the Head of Investor Relations to support LP communication, data collection, and fundraising readiness
- Help manage data rooms, prepare decks, and support due diligence during fundraises
- Assist in planning and executing LP events and ongoing relationship management
- Support high-impact moments for the firm: demo days, founder events, external content
- Coordinate portfolio support services and onboarding processes
- Help improve how we deliver value to founders, LPs, and the ecosystem
- Plan and own internal ops: team meetings, communication flow, and offsites
- Support onboarding, team processes, and firm culture — making FoodLabs a great place to build and work
- This role demands a rare mix: strategic clarity and operational excellence, high trust and high independence, context switching and follow-through. You’ll need to understand both people and process, and be trusted with both
Our take
FoodLabs is an early stage Venture Capitalist investor and venture studio that focus on intellectual property and scalable business models toward a more sustainable food industry.
The company has adopted its mission after its founder felt the food industry was treated as one of the most relevant industries for human health but as one of the most irrelevant industries to the climate. The food industry’s contribution to greenhouse emissions is huge, hence this mission is as urgent as ever.
FoodLabs recently closed its new early-stage fund called Food Fund, which will help European innovators create positive change. It also releases important reports such as "Food For Climate" in 2023, which explores the impact of FoodTech starups on the environment. There are countless other opportunities for FoodLabs to help improve food sustainability and the company will do so with its purpose-for-growth approach.
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Company
Company benefits
- Mentorship and career development opportunities
Company HQ
Mitte, Berlin, Germany
Leadership
Christophe Maire
(CEO)Previously founded txtr and gate5 AG, acting as CEO, and High Tech Center, acting as Managing Director.
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