Intern & Job Board

Search on Salary

• Brydon Group: CEO-in-Residence Cohort ↗

  Search on salary inside the largest cohort program: 46 acquisitions across five cohorts, with $30M-plus of equity targeted behind each platform.

  Applications open in December; decisions by late March.

• Sleeping Giant Capital: CEO-in-Residence ↗

  Train through the Acquire program, then search full time on a salary with committed capital, focused on West Michigan.

  Program cohorts; train-then-search sequence.

• WAD Capital: CEO-in-Residence Cohort ↗

  Benelux SME succession with the lane's only published terms: a monthly fee, full acquisition financing, and up to 20% equity vesting in thirds.

  Cohorts of 10 to 20 CIRs.

• Novastone Capital Advisors: Searcher Program ↗

  The most international employed program: 29 companies acquired across 11 countries under NCA's structure.

  Rolling international intake.

Residencies & Placements

• NextGen Growth Partners: Entrepreneur-in-Residence ↗

  Join the Chicago firm full time, source and acquire a business with its committed capital, then lead it.

  Rolling, small class.

• American Operator: Operator Placement ↗

  The firm buys the business and installs a vetted operator as salaried CEO with day-one equity and a buy-up path.

  Rolling, matched to acquisitions.

Internships

• Search Fund Fellows: Buy-Side Internship Listings ↗

  The only job board dedicated to buy-side search internships: sourcing, modeling, and diligence roles posted by active searchers and investors, free on both sides.

  Live listings year-round; heaviest before summer.

• Search Fund Accelerator: MBA Summer Internship ↗

  A summer inside an accelerator's cohort of searches: sourcing and diligence across live deals rather than one desk.

  Recruited each spring for summer.

Post a Role

Running a search and hiring an intern or analyst? Email hello@searchspheresource.com with the role, the search, and an application link; listings that check out are added here and stay while they are live. Free, and the door swings both ways: candidates who write in get pointed at the programs above.