Quona Capital

Quona Capital runs a structured Summer Investment Associate programme across its three regional pods, with separate listings on the Quona careers page for the 2026 cohort:

• Asia Team – Bangalore: 10-week summer internship, supporting India and Southeast Asia investments
• Asia Team – Singapore: 10-week summer internship, supporting India and Southeast Asia investments
• EMEA Team: 10-week summer internship based in London, Dubai, or Cape Town, covering Africa and MENA deals

The roles are pitched at students "currently enrolled in a top tier MBA or graduate degree program" and the application asks for a cover letter that includes commentary on a recent Quona team member's podcast, LinkedIn post, or publication. A candidate is therefore committing to both a regional team and a specific geography at application time, and is expected to engage substantively with the firm's investment thesis before any interview round.

Quona's careers page posts the Summer Investment Associate listings on a single-cycle basis: the three 2026 roles (Bangalore, Singapore, and EMEA) went live in late February 2026, with applications closing on Friday, 6 March 2026 for that year's intake. There is no rolling year-round window — the listings sit on the careers feed only while live, then come down. A candidate who misses the window has no fallback intake at Quona that year, so the small set of regional slots collides with the same late-winter MBA recruiting timeline used by other emerging-markets fintech and impact funds.

Quona's position in the fintech VC landscape is shaped by a focused mandate and a specific origin:

• Thesis: inclusive fintech — Quona invests in financial services for underserved customers and small businesses in emerging markets rather than across the full venture surface; the firm reports 151.5M lives touched and $63.3B in payment transactions enabled via its portfolio
• Origin: spun out of Accion's Frontier Investment Group, with investing activity dating from 2009 and Quona's first dedicated fund raised in 2015
• Fund cadence: four funds to date — Fund I (2015), Fund II (2018), Fund III (2021), Fund IV (2024) — across 70+ portfolio companies in 15 countries
• Geographic spread: three regional pods covering Latin America, Africa and MENA, and India and Southeast Asia, with investment team seats in Bangalore, Singapore, London, Dubai, Cape Town, and Washington, D.C.

For a candidate weighing Quona against a global generalist VC, the trade-off is concentrated depth in emerging-markets financial inclusion against the broader sector and geography coverage at a larger US- or Europe-centric fund.

Quona Capital currently has no open internship or graduate roles listed on Jorb AI. This page updates continuously; check back as new postings rotate.

Applications to Quona Capital go through the official careers site. Each role on this page links directly to the specific application. Quona Capital does not use third-party submission services.