Venture Capital Investment Summer Intern (frontier tech/hardware)
Company Description
Foothill Ventures is a $300M technology-focused venture capital firm based in Los Altos, California. We make pre-seed, seed (preferred), and A-round investments in North American B2B startups with technological differentiation across software, life sciences, and frontier tech.
Over the past decade, Foothill has built a cross-disciplinary, multi-sector fund dedicated to technical innovation. As one of the most active early-stage deep tech investors in the Silicon Valley, Foothill Ventures team has made seed-stage, highly successful bets on companies like Zoom Communications, Iterable, Carta, Plus.ai, WeRide and Ginkgo Bioworks, all subsequent Unicorns, and continues to be highly active in deep tech investments in:
- Frontier Tech: Electrification of everything, photonics, semiconductors, future data center stack
- Software: AI/ML (infrastructure, tooling and applications), B2B SaaS, robotics (core software innovation)
- Life Sciences: AI-driven drug discovery, infrastructure and tools in life sciences
We are honored to recently be named by TIME and Statista as one of America’s Top Venture Capital Firms of 2025.
Job Description
Time frame:
Full time during Summer of 2026 (in-person strongly preferred)
Level:
We're looking for rising 2nd year MBA students and PhDs candidates
Responsibilities:
Sourcing, due diligence on deal flow, sector analysis and portfolio support. The intern will function as a VC Associate supporting the investment team, with the potential to run a deal end-to-end.
Qualifications
- Strong strategy and communications skills (previous investment, consulting, startup or operations experience preferred).
- Strong domain knowledge in frontier tech (eg., photonics, semiconductors, chips, edge computing, power electronics, data center stack, power management, etc).
- Demonstrated interest in early-stage investing.
- Aspiration to become full-time VC after graduation.