<div> Investment Associate Location: Remote within ±3 hours of the EAT time zone. Preference for candidates in Africa or countries where Pula has an office (Kenya, Ethiopia, Uganda). Reports to: President &amp; Co-Founder About Pula XceleratorThe Pula Xcelerator is Pula’s internal M&amp;A and strategic investment arm, responsible for identifying, evaluating, and accelerating high-potential businesses across Africa. We enable selected companies to scale using our distribution, data, and partnership networks.We focus on enterprises generating at least $500K in annual revenue in agriculture, insurance, financial services, or technology. Through structured acceleration, funding pathways, and hands-on operational support, the Xcelerator helps ambitious teams turn proven solutions into continent-wide scale. About the roleThis role is for someone who thrives in a dynamic, entrepreneurial environment. You will identify and evaluate high-potential businesses, engage with founders, and help shape the systems that define the Xcelerator.What matters most is your commercial insight and entrepreneurial experience, rather than a purely formal finance background. You will scout opportunities, perform due diligence, and recommend investments. Key responsibilities<ul><li>Lead evaluation of prospective companies, focusing on commercial potential, scalability, and strategic fit.</li><li>Conduct due diligence across financials, operations, and business fundamentals, emphasizing practical insights.</li><li>Engage directly with founders and senior management to test assumptions and assess capability.</li><li>Reconstruct financials where needed and prepare internal investment memos for decision-making.</li><li>Build and maintain a pipeline of high-potential companies.</li><li>Operate as a hands-on execution lead, personally driving outputs.</li><li>Contribute to designing internal systems to track and accelerate portfolio companies. </li></ul> Candidate profile<ul><li>5–10 years’ experience with strong entrepreneurial or commercial investment background:<ul><li>Former co-founder/startup operator</li><li>Venture capital, private equity, or corporate M&amp;A experience</li><li>Strategic investment or corporate development experience</li></ul></li><li>Skilled at evaluating business models, unit economics, and growth potential.</li><li>Comfortable engaging directly with founders and management teams.</li><li>Experienced in small, high-trust teams, taking full ownership of projects.</li><li>Hands-on, execution-focused; not purely advisory.</li><li>Formal finance qualifications helpful but practical experience prioritized.</li></ul> Personal attributes<ul><li>Entrepreneurial and commercially curious</li><li>Stamina to work through complex tasks</li><li>Trustworthy and careful with sensitive information</li><li>Comfortable with ambiguity and able to create structure</li><li>Clear thinker, able to explain insights without jargon </li></ul>What Pula will bring to the table: <ul><li style="list-style-type:none;"><ul><li>Growth potential: At Pula, we are building the systems that enable farmers worldwide to access insurance, using technology to insure this previously uninsured worldwide. We work in over 11+ countries across Africa and Asia, and by 2025, have facilitated insurance cover to around 24 million farmers. We are a for profit, and have raised over $25 million from leading venture and institutional investors as well as developed philanthropic relationships with private foundations and bilateral donors such as the Bill &amp; Melinda Gates Foundation and German Insure Resilience Solutions Fund that have accelerated investments in our target markets.</li><li>Market Leader: Not only is the opportunity massive, but Pula is by far the market leader in it’s category with a total of 24M farmers insured as of 2025.</li><li>Solid: Pula has been funded by leading venture capital investors (Omidyar Network, ACCION, MercyCorps) and global philanthropic institutions (MasterCard Foundation, CGAP/World Bank as well as the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation). Pula closed an oversubscribed $20m series B funding despite the economic downturn.</li><li>Respected: Winner of the Singapore FinTech Festival 2019, Winner of The InsureTech of the Award, Africa. Featured on TED talks, The New York Times, The Economist.</li><li>Impact and creation: This is a high-impact role, that offers a unique opportunity to bring the company to the next level, whilst developing new strategies, approaches and ideas.</li><li>Leadership: The founders &amp; CEO foster a culture of transparency, respect, high performance, pragmatism, execution and personal development.</li><li>Purpose: It is rare to find a professional opportunity that offers accelerated professional development and a life purpose. Pula is going through a second phase of accelerated growth that will naturally provide professional development, whilst contributing to the financial stability of small farmers in the emerging markets.</li><li>Remuneration: Competitive base salary accordingly with seniority and experience, an employee share option plan (ESOP) and other attractive upside offerings.</li></ul></li></ul> To learn more about Pula:<a href="https://www.ted.com/talks/rose_goslinga_crop_insurance_an_idea_worth_seeding?language=en">TED Talk</a>: Crop Insurance, an Idea Worth Seeding<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/03/business/microinsurance-africa-thomas-njeru.html">New York Times</a>: He Grew up on a Farm. Now, He Helps Protect Them<a href="https://www.economist.com/international/2019/08/22/the-poor-who-most-need-insurance-are-least-likely-to-have-it">The Economist</a>: The Poor, Who Most Need Insurance, Are Least Likely to Have It</div>

Reimagining agricultural insurance to protect smallholders worldwide. At Pula, we are radically restructuring insurance, using technology and parametric insurance to insure the previously unbanked, uninsured, untapped market of 1.5 billion smallholders worldwide. We work across Africa and Asia, and in 2019 alone, we facilitated crop and livestock insurance cover to 1.1mln farmers and have offered our products in 11 markets . Since starting in 2015, our products have impacted over 4.9 Million smallholder farmers. Our Founders work in insurance has been recognized by several international awards including the Financial Times/IFC Award for Sustainable Finance, the Singapore Fintech Festival, Womens World Banking, Credit Suisse, and InsureTech3.0. We partner with organisations across multiple value chains, from agriculture to renewable energy including Fortune 500 Companies, Global NGO&rsquo;s, Microfinance Instructions, Research Institutions, and Governments to help provide households the protection they need in an increasingly unpredictable climate.

Investment Associate

<div> Investment Associate Location: Remote within ±3 hours of the EAT time zone. Preference for candidates in Africa or countries where Pula has an office (Kenya, Ethiopia, Uganda). Reports to: President &amp; Co-Founder About Pula XceleratorThe Pula Xcelerator is Pula’s internal M&amp;A and strategic investment arm, responsible for identifying, evaluating, and accelerating high-potential businesses across Africa. We enable selected companies to scale using our distribution, data, and partnership networks.We focus on enterprises generating at least $500K in annual revenue in agriculture, insurance, financial services, or technology. Through structured acceleration, funding pathways, and hands-on operational support, the Xcelerator helps ambitious teams turn proven solutions into continent-wide scale. About the roleThis role is for someone who thrives in a dynamic, entrepreneurial environment. You will identify and evaluate high-potential businesses, engage with founders, and help shape the systems that define the Xcelerator.What matters most is your commercial insight and entrepreneurial experience, rather than a purely formal finance background. You will scout opportunities, perform due diligence, and recommend investments. Key responsibilities<ul><li>Lead evaluation of prospective companies, focusing on commercial potential, scalability, and strategic fit.</li><li>Conduct due diligence across financials, operations, and business fundamentals, emphasizing practical insights.</li><li>Engage directly with founders and senior management to test assumptions and assess capability.</li><li>Reconstruct financials where needed and prepare internal investment memos for decision-making.</li><li>Build and maintain a pipeline of high-potential companies.</li><li>Operate as a hands-on execution lead, personally driving outputs.</li><li>Contribute to designing internal systems to track and accelerate portfolio companies. </li></ul> Candidate profile<ul><li>5–10 years’ experience with strong entrepreneurial or commercial investment background:<ul><li>Former co-founder/startup operator</li><li>Venture capital, private equity, or corporate M&amp;A experience</li><li>Strategic investment or corporate development experience</li></ul></li><li>Skilled at evaluating business models, unit economics, and growth potential.</li><li>Comfortable engaging directly with founders and management teams.</li><li>Experienced in small, high-trust teams, taking full ownership of projects.</li><li>Hands-on, execution-focused; not purely advisory.</li><li>Formal finance qualifications helpful but practical experience prioritized.</li></ul> Personal attributes<ul><li>Entrepreneurial and commercially curious</li><li>Stamina to work through complex tasks</li><li>Trustworthy and careful with sensitive information</li><li>Comfortable with ambiguity and able to create structure</li><li>Clear thinker, able to explain insights without jargon </li></ul>What Pula will bring to the table: <ul><li><ul><li>Growth potential: At Pula, we are building the systems that enable farmers worldwide to access insurance, using technology to insure this previously uninsured worldwide. We work in over 11+ countries across Africa and Asia, and by 2025, have facilitated insurance cover to around 24 million farmers. We are a for profit, and have raised over $25 million from leading venture and institutional investors as well as developed philanthropic relationships with private foundations and bilateral donors such as the Bill &amp; Melinda Gates Foundation and German Insure Resilience Solutions Fund that have accelerated investments in our target markets.</li><li>Market Leader: Not only is the opportunity massive, but Pula is by far the market leader in it’s category with a total of 24M farmers insured as of 2025.</li><li>Solid: Pula has been funded by leading venture capital investors (Omidyar Network, ACCION, MercyCorps) and global philanthropic institutions (MasterCard Foundation, CGAP/World Bank as well as the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation). Pula closed an oversubscribed $20m series B funding despite the economic downturn.</li><li>Respected: Winner of the Singapore FinTech Festival 2019, Winner of The InsureTech of the Award, Africa. Featured on TED talks, The New York Times, The Economist.</li><li>Impact and creation: This is a high-impact role, that offers a unique opportunity to bring the company to the next level, whilst developing new strategies, approaches and ideas.</li><li>Leadership: The founders &amp; CEO foster a culture of transparency, respect, high performance, pragmatism, execution and personal development.</li><li>Purpose: It is rare to find a professional opportunity that offers accelerated professional development and a life purpose. Pula is going through a second phase of accelerated growth that will naturally provide professional development, whilst contributing to the financial stability of small farmers in the emerging markets.</li><li>Remuneration: Competitive base salary accordingly with seniority and experience, an employee share option plan (ESOP) and other attractive upside offerings.</li></ul></li></ul> To learn more about Pula:<a href="https://www.ted.com/talks/rose_goslinga_crop_insurance_an_idea_worth_seeding?language=en">TED Talk</a>: Crop Insurance, an Idea Worth Seeding<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/03/business/microinsurance-africa-thomas-njeru.html">New York Times</a>: He Grew up on a Farm. Now, He Helps Protect Them<a href="https://www.economist.com/international/2019/08/22/the-poor-who-most-need-insurance-are-least-likely-to-have-it">The Economist</a>: The Poor, Who Most Need Insurance, Are Least Likely to Have It</div>

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