Do you have an entrepreneurial mindset and an interest in developing healthtech and/or medical device innovations to improve animal welfare?  Then this opportunity may be for you.  During this pre-accelerator internship, you will provide key technical insights to help assess the market needs and product viability of a pet finding innovation for lost cats and dogs.  This start-up idea has been accepted into a six week pre-accelerator program in London, UK starting mid-May. This will create the roadmap for your summer internship and provide you the opportunity to be involved in the early stages of validating and testing customer needs as well as creating and evaluating potential solutions.

Desired Candidate:

  • Biomedical engineering student or other applicable technical study
  • Experience and/or interest in entrepreneurship with an ability to think out of the box
  • Curiosity and willingness to help obtain essential customer insights and adjust product specifications accordingly
  • An interest in companion animal welfare (i.e. pet cats and dogs)
  • Available to have project update calls in the morning. The Founder is from the US and currently lives in London, UK.

Benefits to you:

  • Gain experience utilizing business model validation tools to assess the viability of a start-up idea
  • Obtain market research learnings from two companion animal health markets – US and UK
  • Be an integral part of the “go/no go” decision for an animal welfare innovation

 This internship has the flexibility to be full-time or part-time.  If interested, please contact Duke Alum Laura at  lhinton@alumni.duke.edu. Deadline is Sunday the 10th.