Intern in Impact Venture Building

Brainforest is globally the first venture studio that focuses on forests as a superior natural climate solution. By harnessing stateoftheart technology and the potential of forests we deliver entrepreneurial solutions to the climate and biodiversity crisis in the form of independent impact ventures. How do we achieve this By understanding existing market barriers identifying systemchanging opportunities and empowering entrepreneurs to build gamechanging and profitable ventures. Through our seed funding and diverse team of visionary entrepreneurs engineers and forestry experts we are creating an ecosystem of solutions that significantly contributes to more forests biodiversity and a better climate.

We are looking for a recent Bachelor Student or similar to join our team for the next 6 months fulltime. During this time you will join our different teams to maximize your learning opportunities: Brainforest Core as Executive Assistant the Regenerative Food Forest Lab and our Biodiversity Lab. We operate in a hybrid mode out of our home offices and in our office in Seefeld Zrich.

Tasks

Brainforest Core (3050%)

• Be the executive assistant for the Brainforest CEO
• Support the Brainforest management in various activities like fundraising meeting preparation adhoc task
• Improve our processes (finances operations hr etc.)

Regenerative Food Forest Lab & Biodiversity Lab (5070%)

• Assist the Venture Building team and the Entrepreneurs in Residence to develop impact business models for the new ventures
• Research to create understanding and knowhow as a basis for our venture building activities
• Support our Venture Program (similar to an accelerator) by helping entrepreneurs on their journey from 01
• Work closely with our Venture Builders to ideate new solutions prototype them validate them and develop them further to full solutions

Requirements

• Enrolled in or recently completed a Bachelor program from a top university ideally in business administration finance strategy and international management marketing entrepreneurship or equivalent
• First experience in the startup or VC world highly beneficial but not mandatory
• Analytical mindset to identify new opportunities in a structured and logical way
• You comfortably and quickly bring ideas research conclusions and condensed understanding of a topic into written and verbal form to convey your findings and the inputs from others
• Strong communication skills written and verbal in English; German is a plus.
• Drive for positive environmental and social impact
• Good understanding of any of the following areas is a plus: Natural Climate Solutions Marketing DLT/Web 3.0 Re/Afforestation Carbon Projects or Markets Biodiversity or Agroforestry

Benefits

• Start your professional career in a missiondriven dynamic caring and inclusive work environment with real impact. Your work will make a difference in the world.
• Working with and learning from experienced entrepreneurs renowned experts and the chance to globally build your network
• Enjoy a steep and long learning curve and build your very own toolbox for your future startup
• We are a small team where ideas and opinions matter