Founder's Associate Intern - Data (m/w/d)

Dealspec; Berlin; Hybrid; EUR 11,000 - 16,000; Part time

Job summary

Dealspec is seeking a Founder's Associate Intern (Data) in Berlin to help build and improve our company, investor, people and market data. You will work with founders and teams to turn fragmented information into structured datasets for M&A, Private Equity and startup client work.

You will source, structure, and enrich data, build AI-powered workflows, and improve data quality to drive insights for our platform and clients.

Qualifications

• Currently pursuing a Bachelor or Master in a data-related field.
• 1–2 internships in M&A, Private Equity, Search Funds, Startups or Consulting preferred.
• Experience cleaning, enriching large datasets and building reliable data pipelines.
• AI-native mindset with tools like Claude, Cursor, n8n, Figma and Clay and some development basics.
• Strong organizational and prioritization skills.
• Excellent English and German communication.

Responsibilities

• Source, structure and enrich company, investor, people and market data.
• Build and test AI-powered workflows for data collection, enrichment and matching.
• Improve data quality and derive insights for platform and clients.
• Research and evaluate new data sources for the platform.
• Clean, standardize and enrich datasets using Python, SQL and AI tools.
• Create workflows to extract information from websites, registries, and documents.
• Match and deduplicate records and map relationships across entities.

Skills

Data wrangling

AI tools

English & German

Development basics

Communication

M&A/PE internship experience

Education

Bachelor/Master in Data Science/CS/Economics/Statistics

Tools

Claude

Cursor

n8n

Figma

Clay

Job description

Founder's Associate Intern - Data (m/w/d)

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Job Description

We're looking for a Founder's Associate Intern (Data) to help build and improve our company, investor, people and market data.

You'll work closely with the founding and teams to turn fragmented information into structured, reliable datasets for M&A Private Equity & Search Funds. From exploring new data sources to building workflows and testing matching approaches, you'll own practical data projects that contribute directly to our product and client work.

What you will do

• Source, structure and enrich company, investor, people and market data
• Build and test AI-powered workflows for data collection, enrichment and matching
• Improve data quality and turn datasets into useful insights for our platform and clients

Profile

• Currently studying (Bachelor / Master) in Data Science, Computer Science, Economics, Statistics or related fields
• Preferably 1-2 previous internships in M&A, Private Equity, Search Funds, Start-Ups or Consulting
• Experience combining, cleaning and enriching large, diverse datasets and building a reliable data pipeline
• AI-native, especially with tools like Claude, Cursor, n8n,Figma and Clay as well as some development basics
• Strong organizational & prioritization skills
• Excellent communication skills in English & German

Tasks

• Research and evaluate new data sources and collect company, investor, people and market information for our platform and client projects
• Clean, standardize and enrich datasets using external sources, Python, SQL and AI tools
• Build and test workflows that extract structured information from websites, registries and documents
• Match and deduplicate records across sources and map relationships between companies, investors and people
• Explore datasets to identify trends and relevant targets, and support experiments with scoring and forecasting approaches
• Run quality checks to identify missing data, inconsistencies and enrichment errors, and improve the underlying workflows
• Work closely with the engineering and founding team to integrate data into our platform and shape our development priorities

Your

• Attractive compensation package with equity (job specific)
• Direct mentorship with the founders and their network
• Meaningful work that reaches our software & service clients
• Exposure to M&A Advisors, Private Equity, Search Funds as well as the Berlin Startup Ecosystem
• Regular team events, social activities and company off-sites
• Amazing office at "The Delta Campus" in Berlin with a food court, gym, rooftop, unlimited snacks & drinks