Tasks

As a Founder’s Associate focused on Go-to-Market, you’ll work at the frontlines of distribution, outreach, and monetization. Your mission: help turn our existing tech assets into real traction by identifying ideal users, engaging them, and testing what converts.

We’ve recently launched our first public API — a market intelligence engine for discovering competitors, lookalikes, and acquisition targets. If you want to check it out search for "Market Intelligence: Competitors, Lookalikes, and more" on RapidAPI.

Your job will include finding smart, creative ways to get this API into the hands of the right users — whether agents, internal tool builders, or early adopters looking for structured market data.

We are a young company founded by repeat entrepreneurs who’ve built startups, launched a data-driven VC fund, and supported over 20 early-stage companies across Europe. Now we’re building the foundational data layer for the agentic AI age.

From Day 1, you will:

• Define and refine Ideal Customer Profiles (ICPs) across segments (startups, scaleups, SMEs)
• Research and build lead lists using LinkedIn, web data, and internal signals
• Run structured outbound campaigns (email, LinkedIn, etc.) to test messaging and value props
• Drive cold outreach and first conversations with high-potential prospects
• Help evaluate use cases like competitor discovery, acquisition target sourcing, and market mapping
• Track outreach performance and iterate quickly to improve results
• Support early pricing, conversion, and onboarding experiments
• Collaborate with founders to prioritize sales learnings into product feedback

The ideal outcome of your internship: we close new customers and find a scalable GTM playbook for the revenue stream you own.

This is a fast-paced, results-driven role. If the fit is strong, a follow-up working student or full-time offer is possible.

Note: This internship does not come with a fixed salary — but you’ll earn a generous commission for every deal you help close. The role is fully optimized for upside.

Requirements

• You are currently pursuing or recently completed a degree in Business, Economics, Engineering, or a related field
• Previous experience in sales, business development, growth, marketing, or customer research is a plus
• Strong written communication skills — you enjoy crafting crisp, persuasive messages and outbound copy
• Confident engaging with prospects and users, even in cold outreach settings
• Structured and analytical thinker — you can track what works and iterate quickly
• Entrepreneurial mindset: proactive, curious, and outcome-driven
• Fluent in English (German is a plus)

Benefits

• Extreme learning curve through direct collaboration with the founding team — ideal preparation for aspiring founders, go-to-market leaders, or early-stage commercial operators
• Exposure to frontier topics like agentic systems, LLMs, embeddings, and structured data infrastructure
• Build a strong portfolio of real deliverables — from ICP definitions and campaign reports to outbound workflows and customer insights
• Ongoing support after the internship with references, warm intros, and career guidance — past interns have gone on to roles at Anthropic, Lakera AI, Speedinvest, Earlybird, Redalpine, and more
• Performance-based financial bonus for every deal you directly help close
• Possibility of a follow-up offer as a working student or full-time team member, depending on fit

This is a voluntary internship for a maximum of 3 months or a mandatory internship (Pflichtpraktikum) as part of a university degree. Please indicate your eligibility in your application.

Remote-first and async-friendly setup — work from anywhere, with full ownership and flexibility.

How to apply

Interested? Just send us your CV and answer the three short questions below and attach the answers as a cover letter. No actual cover letter needed.

1. Why do you want to work with us at this stage, on this kind of problem? (max 150 words)
2. Tell us about a project or challenge you took initiative on. What was your role, and what changed because of you?
3. (Optional) What’s something you've built, sold, or learned recently that you're proud of? (1–2 sentences)

(We review every application personally. Thoughtful answers go a long way.)

We build the data layer for the agentic age.

As LLMs and autonomous agents take on more work, they keep hitting the same bottleneck: a lack of structured, relevant, machine-usable data. We’re fixing that.

apistemic develops high-signal data infrastructure for AI-native applications, where completeness, relevance, and retrieval speed matter most.

We recently launched our first product at markets.apistemic[.]com: a market intelligence API for discovering competitors, lookalikes, leads, and acquisition targets. It is already used by early-stage builders to power agents, investment tools, and internal automations. We are now expanding into new verticals where structured data can unlock real workflows.

We’ve previously founded startups, launched data products, built and run data-driven VC fund, and funded over 20 early-stage companies in AI and SaaS.

If you’re hungry to learn, driven to build, and ready to take real ownership from day one, you’ll feel at home here.