Visiting Analyst - Investment Team (m/f/d)

About Planet A

Planet A is a leading early-stage European tech VC backing founders tackling the world’s greatest systemic challenges. We take a scientific approach to identify breakthrough solutions the world can’t afford to ignore across energy, resource mastery, neo-manufacturing, and critical infrastructure. Investments include Aris Machina, Staer, INERATEC, Gigaton and Makersite.

• Employment: Full-time internship (40 hours/week)

• Duration: 6 months

• Location: Remote within the EU (Preference to Berlin, London, Munich, Zurich and Stockholm)

• Start Date: As soon as possible

Tasks

You’ll work directly with one of our Partners on the most important thing a VC does: finding exceptional founders before everyone else does. This is a hands-on sourcing seat, not a back-office position.

• Find exceptional founders early. Identify promising founders, spinouts and research teams through LinkedIn, GitHub, scientific papers, patents, university labs and relevant communities.

• Build a sourcing engine. Develop and run your own sourcing playbooks, using AI and automation to identify promising opportunities at a scale that manual research cannot match.

• Screen inbound deal flow. Quickly assess incoming opportunities and flag the most promising cases to the investment team.

• Maintain our CRM. Keep our CRM accurate and up to date, ensuring leads, interactions and relationships are properly tracked.

• Build tools, not just workflows. Work with our Data / Engineering team to turn successful sourcing approaches into repeatable tools and systems.

Requirements

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