Venture Analyst - 6-months Internship ⬇️

HEC Paris & Creative Destruction Lab Overview 🏛️

HEC Paris Innovation & Entrepreneurship Center

The HEC Paris Innovation & Entrepreneurship Center has been created to enhance HEC Paris' reputation as the leading European Business School for Entrepreneurial and Digital Innovation, meeting the aspirations of a new generation of students and the needs of businesses.

As well as overseeing the coordination of the Business School's programs, the Innovation & Entrepreneurship Center runs an innovation laboratory for developing cutting-edge ideas.

Creative Destruction Lab

The Creative Destruction Lab (CDL), is a not-for-profit organization that delivers an objectives-based program for massively scalable, seed stage, science- and technology-based companies.

The program has created more than $15B in equity, targeting ventures that have the potential to transform our social, industrial, and economic landscape.

CDL-Paris - Climate Stream

The CDL-Paris Climate Stream is a joint program of HEC Paris and Creative Destruction Lab.

Our program targets technical founders who are tackling climate, natural resource, and environmental challenges predicated on novel innovations across a wide variety of enabling technology categories. This stream is tailored towards early-stage companies (early venture or growth) or even projects (pre-incorporation); however, startups at all levels of maturity will be considered.

Companies accepted to the CDL Climate Stream benefit from mentors and partners with the experience, motivation, network, and capital to navigate the complex process of developing and implementing climate-related technologies. Mentor and venture relationships are built through CDL engineered interactions and in some cases extend beyond the program through ongoing advisory roles.

We support ventures in the following areas: Mobility, Transportation, and Infrastructure; Future of Food; Sustainable Materials/Manufacturing; Building & Cities; Renewable & Alternative Energy Transition; Greenhouse Gas Reduction, Carbon Sequestration, and Removal; Waste/Circular Economy; and more!

Venture Analyst Position 👩‍💼

The Venture Analyst will primarily support CDL-Paris venture recruitment for the 2022/23 cohort, including rolling out and managing recruitment infrastructure and identifying viable CDL venture applicants.

CDL prides itself on its world-class venture scouting and recruitment, and its ability to detect technologies with the potential to change the world in a massive fashion.

Venture identification and qualification are therefore some of the most strategic aspects of our program.

Responsibilities

Ventures Recruitment & Selection:

Support the execution of outreach strategy for the recruitment of the incoming cohort;
Build a pipeline of CDL prospects and works within Salesforce system to monitor and convert leads to applications;
Assess fit for early-stage science and engineering-based ventures that apply for the CDL program;
Interview companies and make recommendations about who should be admitted to the program.

Ecosystem Building:

Support identification and relationship building with centers of innovation in the local ecosystem; including Universities, venture capital funds, incubators & accelerators, and tech associations to build a strong pipeline of CDL venture applicants;
Support, coordinate and produce materials for key internal coordination meetings.

Startup Program:

Support day-to-day program operations.

Qualifications/Requirements

Skills

Scientific, technological, or engineering background;
Strong analytical ability and understanding of technologies and applications over several fields;
Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English;
Work experience working with startups, technology companies, or venture capital is an asset;
Experience with Airtable and Salesforce is an asset.

Mindset

Entrepreneurial and highly motivated with a strong interest in startups and venture capital;
Highly organized with strong project management experience;
Comfortable to work with, meet or exceed performance objectives;
Strong, team-oriented work ethic with a willingness to work independently and autonomously.

A few examples from our startup scouting 🚀

Kepler Communications is a space-based telecommunications company on a mission to build the internet in space. They aim to provide real-time communications to other satellites, space stations, launch vehicles, habitats, and any other space-borne assets.

North builds a pioneer in human-computer interfaces and smart glasses. They develop products that change the way we see and interact with our world. North launched Focals smart glasses in October 2018 and has now been acquired by Google.

Renaissance fusion has the mission of bringing fusion out of the lab and onto the grid. The founder, Dr. Francesco Volpe is one of few physicists worldwide who conducted research on all four major magnetic fusion concepts as well as on liquid metals and metamaterials.