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About MaRS
MaRS Discovery District (@MaRSDD) is a charitable organization and North America’s largest urban innovation hub, dedicated to helping high-growth technology companies succeed. With a focus on climate, health sciences and other emerging technologies, MaRS supports startups tackling some of the world’s most pressing issues. Through its world-class facilities, strategic programs and partnerships, MaRS accelerates the adoption of groundbreaking Canadian technology and bolsters a globally competitive innovation ecosystem. MaRS is the place where you can play a meaningful role in the innovation economy.
We understand qualifications on a job posting can be daunting. If you're passionate about the role and believe you can make a meaningful impact, we want to hear from you, even if you don't meet every listed qualification. We’re always looking for great talent to join our team on planet MaRS.
We actively encourage all candidates to apply, including equity-deserving communities, including those who identify as BIPOC, racialized, women, people with disabilities, and people with diverse gender identities, expressions and sexual orientations.
We want you to be comfortable being your most authentic self throughout our recruitment process. Please reach out to careers@marsdd.com if there’s anything we can do to make your experience more accessible and inclusive, including accommodations. Include 'Accessibility Request' in your subject line.
Want to be a Summer Intern?
We’re offering a range of exciting summer internships that cover the full spectrum of the work we do: from venture programming to marketing & events, to benchmarking & insights. MaRS summer interns will have the opportunity to get hands-on experience, collaborate with multidisciplinary teams, put forth their ideas and contribute to a dynamic organization.
If you’d like to apply to the opportunity detailed below, please make sure your cover letter demonstrates why you are a great match for this internship. Connect the dots from experience and education to what you're applying for.
And if you are applying for more than one MaRS internship, please make sure to identify this clearly in your cover letter, and tailor each letter to a specific opportunity.
Who we are looking for
MaRS interns possess a positive outlook and are smart, curious, energetic and engaged in the world around them. They’re independent, but also work well on a team. They are ideas people, always thinking of innovative, new ways to do things. Beyond this, there are specific knowledge and skill requirements for each role, as detailed below.
About The Internship Opportunity With The IAF
The Investment Accelerator Fund (IAF) is seeking an Intern to support our team across market research, diligence workflows, and portfolio analysis. This is a highly execution-oriented role designed for individuals looking for hands-on exposure to early-stage venture investing within a mission-driven institution.
You will not be on the sidelines; you will work closely with both the investment and operations teams to inform critical decision-making and improve the processes that enable capital deployment into Ontario’s most promising technology companies.
Major Tasks The Intern Will Undertake
While all interns will gain a baseline understanding of the venture capital lifecycle, your specific focus will be tailored to your strengths and interests in one (or a hybrid) of the following three areas:
Market Intelligence & Deal Sourcing
Market Mapping: Conduct deep-dive research into emerging technology sectors to help the team develop new investment theses and identify high-potential startups.
Ecosystem coverage (e.g., Kitchener-Waterloo): Act as eyes and ears in key innovation hubs. You will identify rising founders, attend local ecosystem events, and track early-stage activity, with a specific mandate to strengthen our pipeline in the Waterloo Region.
Diligence Support: Assist the investment team in evaluating prospective deals by analyzing competitive landscapes, market sizing, and commercial traction.
Data, Operations & Analytics
Pipeline Analytics: Manage and audit our CRM data to ensure deal flow hygiene. You will build internal dashboards that help us track sourcing metrics, pass rates, and portfolio performance.
Process Automation: Identify bottlenecks in our investment workflow and implement low-code/no-code solutions (or custom scripting) to automate data entry, reporting, and founder communications.
Scoring Frameworks: Assist in refining the data models we use to score and rank incoming investment opportunities.
Brand & Founder Success
Content Strategy: Help tell the story of the IAF and our portfolio companies. You will draft content for newsletters, blog posts, and social channels to increase our brand visibility among founders.
Portfolio Support: Assist in the creation of resources for our existing portfolio companies, including talent guides, vendor discounts, and CEO summit pla
About the Company
MaRS is the world's largest urban innovation hub in Toronto that supports startups in the health, cleantech, fintech, and enterprise sectors. When MaRS opened in 2005 this concept of urban innovation was an untested theory. Today, it's reshaping cities around the world. MaRS has been at the forefront of a wave of change that extends from Melbourne to Amsterdam and runs through San Francisco, London, Medellin, Los Angeles, Paris and New York. These global cities are now striving to create what we have in Toronto: a dense inno...
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