Fellowship – AI native Systems & Infrastructure

Location: Hyderabad (Work From Office – CIE, IIIT-H Campus, Gachibowli)

Duration: 12-Month (Full-Time Fellowship) onsite

Stipend: Paid Fellowship

About SucSEED SucSEED is the Investment Manager of SEBI-regulated SucSEED Indovation Fund, an AIF Category-I Venture Capital Fund. We partner with ambitious founders and build long-term institutional platforms in India’s early-stage ecosystem. We have also set up a Fund Management Entity in GIFT City Gujarat to launch our Fund-III in USD denomination.

We nurture entrepreneurial talent through capital and venture talent through ownership and responsibility.

About The Role The Management Fellowship is a structured 12-month program designed to develop future investment professionals through hands-on exposure to the venture capital lifecycle.The Fellow will work closely with the investment and portfolio team across sector research, deal sourcing, investment analysis, and portfolio value creation.

This Fellowship is a pathway to venture capital with a primary role to handle research, deal discovery, startup evaluation, financial and business analysis, and portfolio management which concentrates on Applied AI and Agentic AI Technology Stack, Hardware & Compute Infrastructure: sectors where technological differentiation, enterprise adoption cycles, data/security constraints, regulatory depth, and execution complexity shape long-term value creation.

The focus lies on commercially deployable layers such as agent orchestration frameworks, workflow and decisioning systems, evaluation/observability and guardrails, data + retrieval architectures (RAG, knowledge layers), model serving and inference optimization (latency, cost, reliability), and secure governance for enterprise deployments.

Alongside horizontal infrastructure, we actively track enterprise workflow and industry-specific applications where deep domain expertise and tight integration into systems of record become durable moats

The Fellowship is designed as a pathway into venture investing, aimed at nurturing high-potential early-career talent who can transition into long-term investment roles within the fund.

Job Mandate and Key Responsibilities

• Buy-side Sectoral Research and Deal Discovery:
• Conduct structured primary and secondary research across Agentic AI, Enterprise Applied AI, and AI software infrastructure: including data/knowledge layers (RAG), LLMOps/MLOps, model serving, and inference cost/latency optimisation for production deployments.
• Map enterprise value chains and workflow adoption by industry and function covering tech stacks and deployment architectures (cloud/on-prem/hybrid), integration points into systems of record, security/compliance requirements, and enterprise procurement + budget cycles.
• Identify whitespace opportunities aligned with SucSEED’s thesis, including agent orchestration, vertical workflow automation, evaluation/observability/guardrails, AI governance and security, and inference optimisation/serving architectures for regulated and mission-critical enterprise environments, prioritising solutions where domain depth + integration moats create durable differentiation and repeatable enterprise rollouts.
• Work with sectoral curators to translate market signals into sector roadmaps, sector reports, and internal thesis documents driving clear sub-sector prioritisation and deal-screening lenses that align deal discovery with evolving fund priorities.
• Represent the fund across the ecosystem by attending relevant forums, building operator relationships, and strengthening partnerships with incubators and sourcing channels (e.g., IITM, IITB-SINE, IIITH, IIMB and other accelerators) to continuously refine SucSEED’s sourcing roadmap and real-time discovery pipeline across inbound and outbound opportunities.
• Source, Filter and screen opportunities and engage with founders to understand the product, problem statement, and differentiation.

Outcome: Strong investment pipeline and differentiated sector insights

• Investment Mgmt & Deal Execution
• Conduct deep-dive deal analysis by reviewing product capabilities, market size, competitive landscape, unit economics, GTM, and business projections to support a clear investment recommendation.
• Draft and refine investment memos that synthesize diligence into a decision-ready case (opportunity, thesis fit, risks, mitigants, and key open questions) to enable IC discussi…