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 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.

Not right now. Quona Capital has no internship or graduate roles listed today; new postings appear here as the firm opens them.

Applications to Quona Capital go through the firm's own careers site, one application per posting, each expecting a CV and cover letter written for that role.