Internship venture development climate & circularity

At BigCircle, 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. BigCircle 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 cleantech 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 BigCircle 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