To apply, please submit your resume and a one-page cover letter to phvcareers@powerhouse.fund by Wednesday, August 27th 2025.

Please include “Your First and Last Name - Fall Graduate Associate” in the subject line.

Entity: Powerhouse Ventures

Reports to: Principal

Location: Remote (or Oakland, CA)

Start Date: September 22nd 2025

End Date: December 12th 2025

About Powerhouse Ventures

Our mission at Powerhouse Ventures is to find and support seed-stage founders building innovative software to rapidly scale climate solutions. Our exceptional team, proprietary data, and established brand makes us uniquely qualified to find and evaluate top-tier founders, and our unparalleled network and community helps them succeed.Our innovation firm partners with corporations and investors to help them find and engage with cutting-edge startups, tap into proprietary market insights, and lead the next century of clean technology innovation. Our fund, Powerhouse Ventures, identifies and supports founding teams building innovative software to rapidly transform our global energy and mobility systems.

Who Are We Looking For?

Powerhouse Ventures is hiring a part-time, paid Fall Graduate Associate to support the investment team. This individual’s primary role is to support active market research, sourcing, and diligence, as well as longer-term projects directly associated with our strategic goals. The internship is expected to be 20 hours per week for 12 weeks from September 22nd to December 12th. If necessary, the exact start and end dates can be agreed in coordination with the hiring manager.

What You Will Be Working On

• Support our top of the funnel sourcing efforts by reviewing new startups, making recommendations, and supporting initial screening calls

• Support on data aggregation and CRM management 

• Completing ad-hoc projects to support diligence, fund operations, and research

• Other responsibilities as assigned

About You

• Currently enrolled in an industry-relevant Masters or PhD program, or 4-6 years of prior industry-relevant job experience  

• You thrive in a fast-paced environment 

• You have excellent communication skills and high EQ

• You bring strong strategic, analytical, and critical thinking skills

• You have a willingness to dive into the details and navigate through ambiguity

• You are driven and self-directed with outstanding organizational skills

• You are passionate about climate tech

• Industry-relevant technical, engineering and/or operator experience is a plus

Benefits

• Exposure to the country’s most innovative climate tech startups and access to Powerhouse Ventures’ extensive network of industry executives, investors, and thought leaders

• Insight into climate tech software trends and opportunities

• Experience on a fast-growing, ambitious, and passionate team dedicated to changing the way we power our world

• $28/hour stipend

Diversity

One of our values is to broaden leadership opportunities for women, underrepresented people of color, LGBTQ+, and anyone with an experience historically underrepresented in companies, board rooms, and venture funds. We believe that everyone in the industry, and at our fund, has to be committed to pro-DE&I policies and practices. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive, safe, and growth-oriented environment for all members of our team.

Purpose, Culture, and Values

Our purpose is to address the climate crisis with innovation.

The Powerhouse and Powerhouse Ventures teams have built a high-performance, results-based, and impact-oriented environment. We’re committed to cultivating a positive workplace that embraces feedback and supports personal and professional growth.

As Powerhouse has continued to grow, we have remained rooted in our values:

Ambition

Addressing the climate crisis requires the ambition to completely reimagine and rebuild our energy and mobility systems. At Powerhouse, we challenge ourselves—and our partners—to act boldly, innovate quickly, and decarbonize equitably.

Collaboration

No company—no matter how big—has the ability to decarbonize by itself. Through our partnerships, we’re enabling collaboration between the biggest corporations and the most effective startups.

Innovation

The structures of the past hundred years are insufficient to address the climate crisis. Rapid decarbonization requires a radical expansion of new technologies to deploy our best solutions at scale.

People

Every startup, partner, and organization we work with is driven by people. Our work is rooted in strong and personal relationships with the people changing the way we power our world.