Venture IQ helps its clients to make smart investment and partnering decisions. We provide leading corporates and investors with company scouting and selection support. Our team is an interdisciplinary mix of experienced venture capital investors, consultants, technology analysts, data scientists, and developers. We help our clients structure and map out niche markets, analyze competitive landscapes, and efficiently identify, compare, and rank the firms in the space. Venture IQ enables its clients to stay ahead of the competition, by enabling proactive investment- and partnership decision-making on the basis of data, not emotions.

Through developing state-of-the-art, specialized software we out-compete the market in price and quality
Catalist is our proprietary scouting and collaboration platform. It enables efficiency through automated data gathering, insightful data visualization, and 100% transparency in the screening and selection process. Catalist is both available through our services or as a stand-alone product.

Venture IQ is a leading provider of proprietary market insights based in Europe, servicing over 100 clients globally, with a growing team of software developers, data scientists, technology analysts, and investment experts.



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You must be a second or third-year student with a minimum GPA of 8, strong communication skills, passion for technology, analytical mindset, and extracurricular involvement.

You will scout companies, create profiles, gather and analyze data, assist with interviews, prepare client presentations, engage in business development, and manage an internal project if interested.

Amsterdam

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   <h2 class="jobSectionHeader"><b>Full-time Internship Technology Analyst for students who get excited by new technologies and seek a scale-up environment</b></h2>
   <h2 class="jobSectionHeader"><b> Venture IQ:</b></h2>
   <p> Venture IQ is a scale-up that assists corporates, private equity and venture capital funds to find, screen and analyse (technology) companies to partner with, acquire or invest in. We are active in most industries: Energy, Agri-food, Biotech, Chemicals, Transport, and so on. Our cutting-edge software Catalist helps us do this as efficiently as possible. Venture IQ was founded in Amsterdam, in 2015, and we are now serving a growing number of leading Corporate Companies and Venture Capital Funds in various industries. We’re a team of 8 full-timers and 3 flexible part-timers.</p>
   <h2 class="jobSectionHeader"><b> Are you our new Intern?</b></h2>
   <p> As an intern at Venture IQ, you will be at the forefront of helping innovation make its way to the world. You scout new promising (tech) companies for our clients. Your primary role will be to generate interesting deal flow by looking for the company that fits our client's strategic goals best, while being supported by our in-house developed software tool to scout early-stage tech startups, but sometimes also more mature companies.</p>
   <p> Together with our team, you will be working for investment-, M&amp;A and innovation teams. You will learn about our clients’ strategies and find out which tech/innovation trends are visible in several sectors and who the most exciting pioneers are. You will learn to assess technology companies using our proprietary tools and link them to corporate strategies. Throughout your internship, you will get more and more responsibilities in scouting projects.</p>
   <p> We appreciate open-minded, self-starting, independent colleagues who are curious to learn about new technologies/innovations and company assessments. As an intern, you have a client-first mindset, continuously looking for new ways and methods to find and analyse companies that match our client’s requirements. Former Technology Analysts have found analytical positions in the investment community, strategy consulting and technical roles, such as HAL Investments, NPM Capital, Accenture and Vortex Capital Partners.</p>
   <h2 class="jobSectionHeader"><b> Key responsibilities</b></h2>
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    <li> Scouting targeted companies for clients, i.e. searching for companies using proprietary Venture IQ software and tools, as well as third-party tools and databases</li>
    <li> Using Venture IQs ‘Catalist’ to create company profiles including relevant tags, and company collections for Venture IQ and for its clients</li>
    <li> Gathering data on companies that have been identified for the purpose of ranking and screening companies</li>
    <li> Helping with interviews with the management teams of selected companies</li>
    <li> Data analysis &amp; visualisation</li>
    <li> Preparing meetings and presentations for clients</li>
    <li> Various external interactions with (potential) clients, including business development activities, project kick-off meetings, update meetings and presentations</li>
    <li> We stimulate our analysts, if interested, to take ownership over an internal project (this could also be process, HR, sales or marketing related)</li>
   </ul>
   <h2 class="jobSectionHeader"><b> Requirements</b></h2>
   <ul>
    <li> Second or third-year bachelor student</li>
    <li> Strong academic record, minimum GPA: 8</li>
    <li> Excellent communication skills and fluency in English (knowledge of additional languages is a plus)</li>
    <li> We are looking for a highly analytical and independent person <br> who is accurate and disciplined in their way of working</li>
    <li> You love innovations and new technologies and are eager to learn about them</li>
    <li> Extracurricular activities are a pre (e.g. student consultancy, board member)</li>
    <li> Starting date: September 2024 (some flexibility is allowed)</li>
    <li> Application deadline: No deadline, vacancy will be closed once filled. </li>
   </ul>
   <h2 class="jobSectionHeader"><b>Offering</b></h2>
   <ul>
    <li> A competitive internship compensation</li>
    <li> We help you grow in company assessment- and deal-scouting techniques</li>
    <li> You will be able to learn from highly experienced VC professionals whilst having a high level of operational freedom</li>
    <li> Gaining knowledge in the many different fields: biotech, (agri) food, energy, chemical, engineering, financial and more</li>
    <li> You will be working in a high-energy working environment in the heart of Amsterdam</li>
    <li> Great lunches including our homemade salad bar</li>
    <li> As a small team, we are open to your ideas, and we stimulate you to think along in our operations and business development outside of technology scouting as well (think: sales, marketing, HR, software products)</li>
    <li> We organize bi-monthly workshops by and for the team</li>
   </ul>
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  <h2 class="jobSectionHeader"><b> How to apply?</b></h2>
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    <p> Please send your application to jobs@ventureiq.nl. Only one spot is available. Please share your cover letter (your motivation matters!), and provide your CV and grade lists of your current studies and secondary school.</p>
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   Full-time Internship Technology Analyst for students who get excited by new technologies and seek a scale-up environment
    Venture IQ:
    Venture IQ is a scale-up that assists corporates, private equity and venture capital funds to find, screen and analyse (technology) companies to partner with, acquire or invest in. We are active in most industries: Energy, Agri-food, Biotech, Chemicals, Transport, and so on. Our cutting-edge software Catalist helps us do this as efficiently as possible. Venture IQ was founded in Amsterdam, in 2015, and we are now serving a growing number of leading Corporate Companies and Venture Capital Funds in various industries. We’re a team of 8 full-timers and 3 flexible part-timers.
    Are you our new Intern?
    As an intern at Venture IQ, you will be at the forefront of helping innovation make its way to the world. You scout new promising (tech) companies for our clients. Your primary role will be to generate interesting deal flow by looking for the company that fits our client's strategic goals best, while being supported by our in-house developed software tool to scout early-stage tech startups, but sometimes also more mature companies.
    Together with our team, you will be working for investment-, M&A and innovation teams. You will learn about our clients’ strategies and find out which tech/innovation trends are visible in several sectors and who the most exciting pioneers are. You will learn to assess technology companies using our proprietary tools and link them to corporate strategies. Throughout your internship, you will get more and more responsibilities in scouting projects.
    We appreciate open-minded, self-starting, independent colleagues who are curious to learn about new technologies/innovations and company assessments. As an intern, you have a client-first mindset, continuously looking for new ways and methods to find and analyse companies that match our client’s requirements. Former Technology Analysts have found analytical positions in the investment community, strategy consulting and technical roles, such as HAL Investments, NPM Capital, Accenture and Vortex Capital Partners.
    Key responsibilities
   
     Scouting targeted companies for clients, i.e. searching for companies using proprietary Venture IQ software and tools, as well as third-party tools and databases
     Using Venture IQs ‘Catalist’ to create company profiles including relevant tags, and company collections for Venture IQ and for its clients
     Gathering data on companies that have been identified for the purpose of ranking and screening companies
     Helping with interviews with the management teams of selected companies
     Data analysis & visualisation
     Preparing meetings and presentations for clients
     Various external interactions with (potential) clients, including business development activities, project kick-off meetings, update meetings and presentations
     We stimulate our analysts, if interested, to take ownership over an internal project (this could also be process, HR, sales or marketing related)
   
    Requirements
   
     Second or third-year bachelor student
     Strong academic record, minimum GPA: 8
     Excellent communication skills and fluency in English (knowledge of additional languages is a plus)
     We are looking for a highly analytical and independent person  who is accurate and disciplined in their way of working
     You love innovations and new technologies and are eager to learn about them
     Extracurricular activities are a pre (e.g. student consultancy, board member)
     Starting date: September 2024 (some flexibility is allowed)
     Application deadline: No deadline, vacancy will be closed once filled. 
   
   Offering
   
     A competitive internship compensation
     We help you grow in company assessment- and deal-scouting techniques
     You will be able to learn from highly experienced VC professionals whilst having a high level of operational freedom
     Gaining knowledge in the many different fields: biotech, (agri) food, energy, chemical, engineering, financial and more
     You will be working in a high-energy working environment in the heart of Amsterdam
     Great lunches including our homemade salad bar
     As a small team, we are open to your ideas, and we stimulate you to think along in our operations and business development outside of technology scouting as well (think: sales, marketing, HR, software products)
     We organize bi-monthly workshops by and for the team
   
  
 
 
   How to apply?
  
   
     Please send your application to jobs@ventureiq.nl. Only one spot is available. Please share your cover letter (your motivation matters!), and provide your CV and grade lists of your current studies and secondary school.
   
  
 


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