Venture Development Intern

Your responsibilities

Evaluating new business models

• Validate business models through market research and customer development, including conversations with potential customers and partners.
• Develop business cases and translate your findings into a clear recommendation: pursue, adapt or discontinue.
• Build the talent pipeline: help assemble founding teams for new ventures and identify and engage early employees for the portfolio.

Supporting our portfolio companies

• Take on critical operational projects across the ventures – from coordinating sales campaigns and product launches to sourcing and evaluating potential partners and drafting customer contracts.
• Keep track of open items across the ventures and follow up with the teams until they are resolved.
• Design and implement AI-driven tools and workflows that automate recurring processes and allow the ventures to scale without adding complexity.

Who you are

• A clear communicator. You write and speak clearly and precisely, and you present your results convincingly to founders and the leadership team.
• Structured. You maintain an overview of several topics at once and reliably drive open items to resolution.
• Focused on execution. You recognize what matters most at any given time and see it through to completion.
• Curious and grounded. You ask the right questions, learn quickly and seek to understand a business before forming an opinion.
• AI-native. You use AI tools as an integral part of your daily work and continuously look for ways to work more effectively with them.

Qualifications

• Currently enrolled in a Bachelor's or Master's program in business, economics, engineering, computer science or a related field, ideally in an advanced semester.
• First experience in fast-paced environments close to the center of an ambitious organization, for example through internships in startups, venture capital, consulting, banking or private equity, or through a project you founded yourself. What you have done matters much more to us than any single logo or pedigree.
• Ideally, you have already contributed early at a startup or high-growth company, with results you can point to.
• High-agency: you take initiative instead of waiting for instructions, take ownership of problems that nobody has been assigned to yet, and find a way forward when there is no established playbook.
• Strong analytical skills and confident in working with spreadsheets and presentations.
• A genuine interest in building companies and the ambition to grow with FastLeap, ideally up to founding a venture of your own.
• Fluent in German and English.
• Available full-time for at least three months, ideally longer.

What we offer

• Entrepreneurship: Real responsibility from your first week and the opportunity to help launch and scale AI-native businesses.
• Learning: Direct involvement in the operations of a company builder with several ventures live across industries and a pipeline of new ones.
• Top-tier network: Work alongside and learn from an experienced team of serial founders. Connect with top-tier operators, investors and angels, including several unicorn founders.
• Compensation: A highly attractive internship salary.
• Remote: Fully remote (incl. budget to rent your own working space), with regular in-person meetings with the management team and occasional travel to the ventures.
• Next step: The prospect of a full-time role at FastLeap or a leadership position in one of its portfolio companies.
• Start date: As soon as possible, full-time.

How we hire

Our process consists of a first call, a short practical case and a final conversation with the leadership team, and can be completed within one week. We look forward to your application.

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