VENTURE CAPITAL INTERN

About

United Founders is a pan-European early-stage venture capital fund backing exceptional founders from day one. We are generalist by design, with a strong focus on AI, deep tech, and breakthrough technologies. We invest in ambitious founders building category-defining companies across Europe and beyond.

Launched in November 2025, United Founders has already built rare early momentum: two unicorns from our first five investments.

We invest at pre-seed and seed, typically writing cheques from €100k to €1M, and aim to lead or co-lead rounds where we can bring conviction, speed, and meaningful support.

Our edge is not only capital. United Founders is backed by 100 accomplished founders and operators, including 7 unicorn founders. They are not passive LPs. They have invested their capital, and they also give their time, network, and operating experience to support our portfolio founders — from fundraising and hiring to go-to-market, strategy, international expansion, and company building.

We are a small, high-conviction, high-output team. We move fast, write our own memos, make decisions directly, and stay close to founders.

As our analyst intern, you will work directly with Maxime Paradis, Co-Founder & Managing Partner — Forbes 30 Under 30 Europe, entrepreneur, investor, and faculty at HEC Paris.

No layers. No corporate filter. Direct exposure to real investment decisions.

Job Description

We are hiring one Venture Capital Analyst Intern in Paris.

This is not a narrow research internship. It is a full-stack VC role where you will be exposed to the entire investment process: sourcing, screening, market research, due diligence, investment committee memos, portfolio support, LP research, founder support, and fund operations.

Your work will not sit in a folder. It will be used to make real decisions.

You will meet founders, attend startup events, analyze companies, build investment theses, contribute to memos, support portfolio companies, and help build United Founders from the inside.

This role is built for someone who wants the real version of early-stage venture capital: intense, fast-moving, ambiguous, intellectually demanding, and deeply connected to the startup ecosystem.

Be clear-eyed about the pace. We are a young fund with high ambitions. The work can be intense, hours can be long, and many of the best startup events happen in the evening. This is not a 9-to-5 internship.

But for the right person, it is a rare seat: direct access, real ownership, and a steep learning curve from day one.

What You'll Do

• Source exceptional founders: Identify promising startups, sectors, founders, and emerging themes across Europe. You will use tools such as Harmonic, Specter, Crunchbase, Dealroom, LinkedIn, Attio, AI agents, and your own network to build high-quality dealflow.
• Represent United Founders in the ecosystem: Attend startup events, demo days, university events, founder dinners, and investor gatherings in Paris. Many of the best opportunities start with a conversation before they ever become a deck.
• Screen inbound opportunities: Review startup decks and inbound opportunities, assess fit with our mandate, and help decide which companies deserve deeper work.
• Run Market And Company Research: Build market maps, analyze competitive landscapes, assess business models, understand technical differentiation, and identify key risks and opportunities.
• Support due diligence: Prepare questions, coordinate expert and reference calls, analyze founder-market fit, pressure-test assumptions, and synthesize findings into clear recommendations.
• Draft investment memos: Turn research and diligence into sharp, structured, decision-ready investment committee memos.
• Build investment theses: Help us identify where the next category-defining companies may emerge: AI infrastructure, frontier AI, deep tech, robotics, defense, climate, health, fintech, developer tools, vertical software, industrial transformation, and other breakthrough sectors.
• Support portfolio founders: Track company progress and help founders with specific needs: hiring, fundraising preparation, investor mapping, market research, customer introductions, strategic thinking, and access to the United Founders LP network.
• Activate our founder LP network: Help connect portfolio founders with relevant LPs, operators, experts, and unicorn founders in our network. You will help make our LP base a real operating advantage for the companies we back.
• Own the CRM and internal data: Keep our Attio pipeline clean, enriched, and decision-ready. You will help ensure that every company, founder, investor, LP, and interaction is properly tracked.
• Help build the fund: Contribute to LP research, ecosystem mapping, events, internal processes, content, community, and ad hoc strategic projects. In a small fund, everyone helps build the machine.

Preferred Experience

We are looking for someone ambitious, sharp, curious, and highly reliable.

You are likely a final-year student or recent graduate from a top business school, engineering school, or university.

You Should Be

• Deeply interested in startups, venture capital, AI, deep tech, and frontier technology
• Analytically rigorous — able to break down complex companies, markets, and technologies
• Structured and clear — able to communicate your thinking simply and convincingly
• A strong writer and communicator in both English and French
• Proactive and autonomous — you do not wait to be told what to do
• Low-ego and high-output — willing to do both strategic work and operational execution
• Comfortable with ambiguity — early-stage investing rarely comes with perfect information
• Fluent with AI tools — you already use them to work faster, sharper, and better
• Energized by intensity — long hours, fast feedback loops, and evening events do not scare you
• Interested in people — VC is not just analysis; it is founders, relationships, trust, and judgment

Bonus Points If You Have

• A technical or engineering background
• Prior startup experience
• Prior VC, angel investing, consulting, banking, private equity, or strategy experience
• Built something yourself
• A strong personal network in startups, AI, deep tech, or universities
• A habit of writing, researching, investing, or creating content around startups
• Strong taste for what makes a founder, market, or product exceptional

What You'll Get

• Direct access to investment decisions: You will work directly with a Managing Partner and see how decisions are actually made.
• Real ownership from day one: Your research, sourcing, and memos will influence real investment decisions.
• A front-row seat to a fast-moving fund: You will see how a venture fund is built from the inside.
• Exposure to exceptional founders: You will meet ambitious founders building in AI, deep tech, software, climate, and more.
• Access to a unique LP network: You will work around a network of 100 accomplished founders and operators.
• A powerful European tech network: You will build relationships across the ecosystem.
• A steep learning curve: A high-intensity apprenticeship in early-stage venture capital.
• A potential path to full-time: Our strongest analysts will be first in line for future full-time opportunities.

Logistics

• Location: Paris-based. You must be in Paris and able to attend events, meetings, and ecosystem gatherings in person.
• Duration: 6 months.
• Start date: Rolling.
• Compensation: €1,000–€2,500 per month, depending on profile and experience.
• Languages: French and English required.

How to Apply

Send us your LinkedIn profile and a few lines on why we should hire you to [email protected]. Optional: include anything that shows how you think (memo, article, market map, etc.). We hire on a rolling basis.

Equal Opportunity

United Founders is an equal opportunity employer. We welcome applicants from all backgrounds and care more about talent, curiosity, intensity, judgment, and execution than traditional credentials alone.