Internship Venture Development

LUKA Global is happy to be the preferred recruitment partner of Big. Circle Ventures in Amsterdam. At Big. Circle, we build our own ventures The world needs innovations to reach net-zero and circularity, but a wealth of research inventions never gets used at scale. Big. Circle Ventures scouts promising deeptech and turns this into successful startups that tackle the world’s climate and circularity challenges.

We focus on the large, untapped pool of early-stage innovations that would otherwise stay untouched on a shelf, hidden in a university, research institute or company lab. Join us to make big impact We are a new team with deep expertise in venture building and in the energy and materials transition. By using a proven model for discovering, nurturing and funding, we aim to be the leading greentech venture builder and boost the world’s journey towards sustainability.

We are looking for interns who want to learn from the exciting and pioneering growth phase we are in, by being part of founding and supporting high impact ventures.

Your role

as venture development intern As a venture development intern, you learn and develop yourself by working with our experienced venture partners and developers to create new ventures. Because we are a startup ourselves, you have many opportunities to help build up and shape Big. Circle as well. Your activities include: Sourcing inventions by doing desk based searches on patents, projects and licence offers, supporting our outreach to universities and researchers, and helping the team to prepare for events (e.

g. industry conferences) Supporting the selection of promising inventions via our structured process, by gathering technical, impact and market input via desk based research and supporting or conducting interviews with experts, investors and industry players Providing hands-on support in other phases of our process, for example when we are recruiting and onboarding a team for the new venture Assisting with coordinating the process from sourcing to onboarding for the inventions you are working on and keeping invention and progress data up to date As part of all this, learning about entrepreneurship, venture building and how this fits you, while getting involved in the many opportunities to develop our organisation Requirements You want to make a positive impact and believe in the power of technology You are on your way to a scientific technology degree in a relevant field, such as novel materials, complex engineering, advanced (bio)chemistry and (sustainable) energy sciences You enjoy the puzzle as well as the human side of venture building, you are a positive, open and outgoing personality You are hands-on, a self-starter with a follow-through mentality, entrepreneurial and eager to learn, you combine sensibility with guts, you take ownership and thrive on collaboration, you enjoy discovering and developing your talents You are fluent in English (spoken and written), as we contact people all over Europe and beyond You live in or within commuting distance from Amsterdam, so you can collaborate with the team in our office Benefits We strongly believe that the right personality, motivation and team-fit form the key to having impact, so we value those over having a ‘perfect score’ on all the criteria The opportunity we offer Join an energetic and fast growing team with a proven venture building approach Make a positive impact by boosting the world’s journey towards sustainability We offer EUR 600 per month internship compensation and we reimburse travel costs You must have the right to work in the Netherlands, we do not have the capacity to offer visa sponsorship