Early-Stage Investment Team Internship, HV Capital
May or July 2025
Venture Capital for digital companies
Be an early applicant
Venture Capital for digital companies
21-100 employees
Be an early applicant
21-100 employees
Company mission
To support exceptional founders in building market leading digital companies.
Role
Who you are
- Relevant Experience: While we welcome previous internships or work experience, especially in startups, this is not a strict requirement. Your analytical skills, ambition, and inquisitiveness may give you an advantage
- An Enthusiastic Learner: We value intellectual curiosity and a strong desire to learn, regardless of your academic background
- Analytical Savvy: Demonstrate your ability to analyse complex information, draw conclusions, and make recommendations
- Communication and Synthesis Skills: Can you simplify complex data into clear insights? Strong written and verbal communication skills are essential
- Independent and Driven: We support an autonomous work environment where quick productivity and independence are critical
- Language and Skills Proficiency: Proficiency in English is essential, while a working knowledge of German is beneficial. Strong skills in Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint are necessary
What the job involves
- Join our Early Stage Team in Berlin for a 3-4 months internship!
- Uncovering and Researching Potential Investments: You will investigate industry trends, gather relevant company data from media sources, and conduct thorough market research
- Analysis and Hypothesis Development: You will demonstrate your financial acumen by developing financial models, analysing business plans, and creating investment hypotheses
- Collaboration with Investment Managers: You will be involved in our deal flow, preparing for and attending meetings with potential portfolio companies, and assisting with portfolio management
- Crafting Reports and Presentations: You will simplify complex data into clear presentations and reports for our investment team and management
- Contributing to Our Knowledge Base: You will research specific topics to enhance our internal knowledge database and your learning
Application process
- We are hiring two Early Investment interns in Berlin: one position will start in Q2 2025, and the other will begin in Q3 2025
Our take
Getting a new business off the ground can be difficult. An innovative idea is not enough, and oftentimes founders struggle to secure the investment they need to grow. HV capital supports exciting companies from the seed stage and onwards throughout their growth, with a speciality in finding and funding future leaders.
HV Capital, an all-stage investor in the German market, leads seed rounds, growth stage investments up to €20m, and follow-on investments up to €100m per company, supporting its partners for ten years or longer. The company has also created a continuation fund, the first of its kind in Germany, which will enable them to invest longer-term and maintain relationships with its more mature companies, yielding larger returns in the future.
Since founding in 2000, HV Capital has backed roughly 225 businesses, including notable names such as Zalando and HelloFresh. With a list of successes at its back, the company is well-positioned to continue supporting exciting startups into the future.
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Company benefits
- 30 paid days-off: We work ambitiously in a fast-paced environment. We offer generous vacation policies above regulatory standards and encourage team members to take time off to decompress
- Training budget: We offer annual budgets to our team members to use for their personal development, training or coaching.
- Coaching: New joiners are invited to join our cooperation with CoachHub and start their coaching journey there.
- Mentoring: New joiners will have role-specific onboarding and a mentor to support your personal development and give you access to first-hand experiences and insights.
- Physical Health: All employees can use an Urban Sports Club Membership and can get a company bike. Our Berlin office is also a proud owner of a DANCE bike while our Munich office has a fully-fledged gym.
- Work from Anywhere: A couple of weeks per year, all employees can work from a place of their choice. We also equip everyone with the gear of their choice for their home offices. We also have two offices for everyone to use.
- Flexible hours: We support flexible work arrangements that accommodate the different needs of all employees.
- Fair & Competitive Pay: Competitive compensation is part of our organisational pride. Progression is fair and objectively decided.
- Environmental Policy: We reduce our carbon footprint where we can. We offset with ClimatePartner what remains. We pride ourselves that everyone at our firm is committed to sustainability and takes action.
Company values
- Curious Minds: We get energised by the advancement of tech and the increasing impact of startups.
- Relationship Builders: We take pride in and live off our long-lasting relationships with founders, colleagues, LPs and ecosystem players, and our DNA is to be in it for the long run as investors and employers
- Humility: We are neither loud nor take ourselves too seriously. We'd instead seek opportunities to let others shine. VC is life-long learning - we might have seen a lot but surely don't know everything.
Company HQ
Schwabing-West, Munich, Germany
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Leadership
Lars Langusch
(Founder)Co-founded and was CEO at Parship.
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