Search Fund Accelerator: MBA Summer Internship
The Position
Internships. Summer weeks working directly with a portfolio company's chief executive on operations, sales and finance.
Cycle: Recruited each spring for summer.
The firm publishes an application route and no dates against it.
A contact link that opens a hosted job posting. That posting renders in a browser only, so whether it is currently live cannot be read from either page, which is a different answer from the firm publishing nothing.
At a Glance
- Location
- New Orleans and Denver.
- Pay
- Salaried
- Compensation
- A paid 10-to-12-week summer internship.
- What You Do
- Ten to twelve weeks over one summer, inside a single portfolio company rather than across the fund.
- Recruits On
- It recruits on campus, through schools rather than from operating experience.
- Who Can Apply
- Current MBA students.
The Company
Search Fund Accelerator is reviewed in full in the directory, with its model, pricing, and the searcher case for and against it, and because it also backs searches, the same page carries its fit as a backer and how to approach it: read the Search Fund Accelerator review.
Interview Prep
These programs do not publish their interview scripts, so this is the shape a internships program hires on, what it is really weighing, and how to arrive ready.
The Typical Arc
- A resume and interest screen.
- A skills check: light financial modeling and a sourcing or diligence task.
- A conversation with the searcher or team you would support.
What It Is Assessing
- Modeling and diligence fundamentals.
- Sourcing hustle and how you organize a target list.
- Genuine interest in the search model, not just a summer seat.
How to Prepare
- Have the acquisition math down: build a projection and underwrite a deal. Underwrite a Deal
- Show you can source: a target list built from a screen. Deal Screener
- Learn the model end to end so you speak the language. the Roadmap