Job description - Innovation Analyst Internship

The rapid growth of Dealroom.co requires a keen and curious Innovation Analyst Intern who is genuinely interested in innovation, technology trends or the startup & scaleup environment. You are eager to provide meaningful insights and content in support of our community, and able to recognise a good story when you see one.

As part of the Intelligence Unit your primary objective is to derive original, creative and solid insights from our database, containing intelligence about startups, innovation and venture capital investments. You are very comfortable playing with numbers and data to discover interesting trends and angles in our user-friendly data platform and turn them into a compelling narrative for our readers, create influential reports, data charts and eye-catching taglines. You will also be working directly with our clients to understand their needs into mutual success.

The mission of the Intelligence Unit is to reveal insights about solutions, surface new opportunities for innovation and support the delivery of projects around innovation solutions. An internship in our office is a learning experience which will provide you with a 360-degree view on how technology is shaping our future.

If you are keen, focused, and creative, with a good understanding of technology and a proactive mindset, please read further!

About Dealroom

Dealroom is Europe’s leading provider of startup data & insights. Founded in Amsterdam in 2013, our mission is to support entrepreneurship and innovation, by providing the most trusted intelligence and insights on the journeys of companies. We enable Venture Capital firms, corporates, advisory firms, and governments to stay at the forefront of innovation, discover the world’s most promising organisations, and identify strategic opportunities.

Our core products:

1. The Dealroom SaaS platform offers an intuitive interface to identify and track promising startups and analyse broader industry/business model trends.

2. The Dealroom API, enables our clients to integrate Dealroom’s investment-grade data straight into their own applications and processes.

3. Custom research projects combine Dealroom data with expert insights, to create market-leading industry deep-dives and trend analysis.

4. Dealroom Ecosystem Solutions, provide open-access community startup data platforms to support local governments, founders, and investors. Our curated and crowdsourced data and insights foster industry connections and showcase domestic tech sector strength on the global stage. Examples include Berlin, The Netherlands, and the United Kingdom.

Our clients include world-leading firms such as Mckinsey, BCG, Deloitte, Google, Amazon, Microsoft, Sony, Sequoia, Insight VP, Balderton Capital, EQT, and many others, which all rely on Dealroom Data in their strategic decision-making.

Team

We operate from the heart of Amsterdam. Our passion for startups, scale-ups and innovation lives in our work, informing reliable intelligence and new insights for our users. Our team is ambitious, diligent, and proactive, but with a strong sense of fun, as seen at weekly team drinks! We continuously strive to live our 6 company values: Empathy, Courage, Positivity, Curiosity, Focus Outward, and be Hungry

While we’re currently obviously working entirely remotely, we do have a spacious office available when and if it suits you.

Your tasks and responsibilities

As an Innovation Analyst Intern you will

• Analyse our database and external sources to generate noteworthy insights and trends
• Take responsibility for unique and influential content for reports, posts or presentations
• Identify and drive process improvements, including the creation of standard and ad-hoc reports
• Control the quality and curate the content of Dealroom.co database
• Understand the needs of the hiring organization or client in order to target research to their benefit
• Work closely with Partnerships and Customer Success Teams to engage with customers in delivering influential content

Who you are / Your background

• Currently enrolled in last year of undergraduate or graduate level studies with a declared major in Finance or similar field of study.
• Interest in and passion for technology, startups and venture capital markets
• Proficiency with Google Suite & Microsoft Office, with a strong emphasis in Sheets, Slides, Excel and PowerPoint
• Advanced speaking and report-writing skills for effective communication
• Organised, logical and number-oriented person
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills
• Attention to details and a commitment to accuracy
• Fluent command of English; any other European language is a great advantage

What we can offer you

• Internship fee
• Freedom and responsibility to execute on your own ideas
• Positive, empathic, and outward-focused colleagues, and customers working at the forefront of innovation and technology
• Perks designed to set you up for success in a new reality:
  • Flexible working hours
  • Home-office setup (screen, etc)
  • Travel reimbursement
• Additionally:
  • Take your birthday off
  • Learning & development budget
• More to come!