Looking for an internship at a start-up/scale-up? This is your chance.
The next internship fair will take place on Tuesday, November 3, at the VU StartHub.
Beyond Bounds
Beyond Bounds Amsterdam is a Dutch design and technology start-up focused on sustainable, customizable interior products created through advanced 3D printing and designer collaborations. We combine innovation, circular materials and contemporary design to develop unique home furnishings and lighting solutions while collaborating with students, designers and researchers.
Marketing & social media internship focused on content creation, storytelling, branding, campaigns and community growth within the design and sustainability sector.
3D design internship for students experienced with Blender, CAD or generative design to help develop innovative interior products and visualizations for production.
Engineering & product development internship focused on materials research and 3D printing. Currently working on researching recycling our lamps into new lamps, and combining waste wood with PLA.
Operations & project management internship supporting planning, supplier coordination, workflow optimization and product launch preparation within a growing start-up.
Engineering & product development internship focused on 3D printing, prototyping, and more. Currently prototyping generating furniture from 3D models and AI, as well as drilling holes into nozzles to create new thicker-lined prints.
Nectora
Nectora is an emerging European media startup covering business, technology, entrepreneurship, and innovation. We interview founders, CEOs, investors, and industry leaders, producing interviews, and short-form content at major international tech conferences. We’re an ambitious team building a media brand from the ground up, bringing the stories shaping Europe’s future to a wider audience.
Social Media & Video Editing Intern
Join Nectora, an emerging European media startup! Edit engaging Reels and Shorts from interviews with founders, CEOs and tech leaders. We’re looking for someone creative, skilled in video editing and passionate about storytelling. Gain hands-on experience, creative freedom and potential opportunities to film and travel to international tech conferences.
Soq
Soq is a smart health tracking device that tracks babies heart rates, oxygen levels, sleep cycles, and temperature to provide parents with peace of mind, so they can sleep more and worry less.
Software Engineer / Programmer: Help build the Soq app and its backend. You will connect our mobile app to our hardware prototype and make live readings, history and sleep summaries run smoothly. You work directly with the founders at DLAB in Amsterdam to get Soq ready for test families.
Zokidrive
ZokiDrive is a digital platform that simplifies the journey to getting a driving licence by connecting learner drivers with driving schools and making exam preparation more accessible, engaging, and effective.
Ingy BV
Ingy is a Dutch smart-building technology company focused on turning regular lighting infrastructure into a complete IoT-enabled smart building platform. The company integrates sensors and wireless networking directly into lighting systems, allowing buildings to become “smart” without requiring expensive additional infrastructure.
Ingy is looking for a motivated Sales & Marketing Intern to support lead generation, marketing campaigns, social media, and customer communication. Ideal candidates are proactive students interested in technology, IoT, and smart buildings, with strong English communication skills and a desire to gain hands-on experience in an innovative company.
Ingy is offering an internship focused on smart infrastructure solutions for waterproof environments, parking garages, and TRV valve monitoring systems. Interns will support research, testing, and project coordination related to IoT-enabled building technologies, helping improve safety, efficiency, and sustainability in modern building and parking facilities.
Hanga
Turning textile waste into sustainable composite material for store design for fashion brands.
Research & development into sustainable composite material: researching materials that can be used in combination with textile waste to create a more sustainable version of our existing beta composite. Physical experimentation with vitrimers (breakthrough polymer technology) and give a direction of which material and direction we should go in for our next gen material.
Product design: help us design a variety of products to be created using our sustainable composite material made from fashion waste. Use inspiration and the world around you to think of what items can be transformed using our material and sold B2C and B2B to fashion brands.
Marketing: content creation + graphic design for our social media!
Tactive Sport B.V.
We’re a sports tech startup building a flight simulator for football players. Working with professional athletes and analysts, we deliver complementary on-field training in VR and AR — letting players replay match scenarios and sharpen tactical decision-making. As an intern, you work directly with elite athletes, video analysts, and the two founders.
Work directly with our two founders to build out the CRM and sales funnel of a sports tech startup that trains elite football players. Own a real piece of our commercial operation, design dashboards that drive decisions, and gain hands-on experience inside professional football.
Prepare training demos for professional football players: set up the hardware, select the right content, and shape how athletes onboard with our product. Work alongside the founders, video analysts, and our UX designer, and help develop the brand across web, hardware, and visual content. Good team sports knowledge required.
Support our senior data scientist in building PyTorch models that predict football player behavior using mixture-of-expert and computer vision approaches. Work with real data from professional competitions and tailor algorithms directly to the needs of elite athletes — gaining hands-on experience in applied machine learning.
DOEdeal!
At DOEdeal! we bring people closer together, one activity at a time.
Finding something fun to do with your family or group is way harder than it should be. Most of the time, you end up doing nothing. Or at best, you watch another movie, again.
DOEdeal! brings everything into one place; from idea to booking. So you can focus on what truly matters, each other!
Marketing & Social Media Intern at DOEdeal!
Become the voice of DOEdeal! on TikTok and Instagram. You’ll create and plan your own content, experiment with formats, and drive real engagement for a live app that helps people stop scrolling and actually go DOE something. Full creative freedom, real impact, and you’ll learn by doing.
Futurum Nobis Foundation/Stichting
Based in Amsterdam Zuidoost, Futurum Nobis runs programs at the crossroads of social impact, sustainability and creativity. We connect nonprofits, startups and businesses around circularity, innovation and community engagement. As an intern, you’ll get real exposure to this diverse, purpose-driven network.
Marketing & Communications Intern. Help Futurum Nobis tell its story across audiences: residents, partners and funders. You’ll craft materials that are clear, inclusive and compelling, translating the energy of a dynamic cross-sector network into messaging that moves people to engage, collaborate and support.
Social Media Intern. Turn community life into content that informs, inspires and invites people in. You’ll manage our social channels, create visuals and stories together with Marketing& communications intern, and help grow an online presence that genuinely reflects who we are – a vibrant, cross-sector network rooted in Zuidoost Amsterdam.
GIGAPSYCH (Not present > a.koutsoumpis@vu.nl)
Join the GIGAPSYCH interdisciplinary team for a 5–6 month software development internship. Help build scalable front-end and back-end modules for psychological data collection, automated reports, billing systems, data integration, and online analytics within an open-science platform focused on FAIR and GDPR-compliant research infrastructure.
Join the GIGAPSYCH interdisciplinary team (5–6 months) to help develop an open-science psychology platform. Contribute to front-end/back-end modules for data collection, automated participant reports, data integration, billing, and online analyses while combining software engineering with research and real-world societal impact.
Join the GIGAPSYCH interdisciplinary team for a 5–6 month software development internship. Help build scalable front-end and back-end modules for psychological data collection, automated reports, billing systems, data integration, and online analytics within an open-science platform focused on FAIR and GDPR-compliant research infrastructure.
BioMatch
We help biotech startups and academics identify new applications where their technologies could be of use.
Internship 1: How Do You Describe What a Method Does?
Researchers describe methods in domain-specific language, but underneath lies a transferable procedure. This internship compares approaches for stripping away jargon to capture what a method actually does (its inputs, logic, and assumptions) and evaluates which produces the most faithful, reusable “method fingerprint.”
Internship 2: What Makes Two Methods Structurally the Same?
PageRank ranked web pages but also worked on gene networks. Why? This internship builds a dataset of methods that jumped between fields (and near-misses that didn’t), then uses feature selection to empirically discover which structural properties actually explain when a transfer succeeds.
Internship 3: Finding the Needle in a Million Papers
Given a method’s abstract fingerprint, how do you search millions of papers to find where it could apply next? This internship compares vector retrieval, subgraph matching, and GNN-based approaches to design a search strategy that surfaces surprising but valid cross-domain opportunities at scale.
Tangle Campus
Tangle is an AI-powered campus engagement platform that helps universities strengthen student belonging, communication and community life. The platform combines student communities, events, mentorship and campus interaction in one secure mobile-first app, while providing universities with analytics on engagement, participation and student wellbeing.
Community & Student Engagement Intern:
Support the growth of student communities and engagement initiatives within universities. Work on mentorship programmes, events, student onboarding, community insights and digital campus experiences while collaborating closely with the Tangle team to strengthen student belonging, participation and interaction across campus life.
Bijlex
We create educational software and collaborate with the rebuilding education initiative to help renew VU’s education.
We offer a hands-on internship where you will learn how to help renew your Bachelor’s program. By developing academic content and innovative didactic approaches, you will actively shape the future of education. Are you interested in shaping your own learning path? Sign up!
RespiQ
RespiQ is a deep-tech company developing a new molecular sensing platform.
Sensor Validation internship – At RespiQ we develop a new type of molecular sensor with applications in healthcare and industry. In this internship you will help us in the lab to mix & measure different samples and define critical values such as Limit Of Detection using our new sensing system.
Mechanical Engineering Internship – At RespiQ we develop a new sensing system that will be deployed in various environments, ranging from containers on board of shipping vessels to biofabrication plants. In this internship you will be part of the team that develops and designs the integration of our sensing modules into a final product, suitable for field testing.
Electrical Engineering Internship – RespiQ develops a new sensor based on a combination of photonics, electronics and machine learning. Integration of the electronic components is key to transform our current benchtop sensor into a mass-manufacturable, cost effective product. In this internship you will be part of the design team developing our control PCB.
Business Development Internship – RespiQ’s technology has potential for various markets, ranging from healthcare to logistics industry and chemical processing. As Business Development Intern you will deep-dive into one of these application areas and build a better understanding of the specific market, interview prospective customers and validate our value offering.
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TUE Nov 3 | 12 – 3.30PM | Internship Market at the VU StartHub
Don’t forget to bring your resume!