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Internship: Business Development / Market Research
NOSTICS B.V.
About the role
Internship: Business Development / Market Research 📍 Location: Amsterdam 🕒 Timing: within two months, 3–6 months (flexible) 💼 16–40 hours/week
What you'll do
You’ll work closely with the founding team on early commercial discovery: Map the market: identify key segments, workflows, and buying centers across spectroscopy-heavy labs and teams (e.g. Raman Spectrometry and Mass Spectrometry). Build a competitive landscape: analyze existing tools such as spectral libraries, vendor software suites, chemometrics tools, and adjacent platforms. Develop Ideal Customer Profile (ICP) hypotheses: define early-adopter profiles and the problems they most urgently need solved. Create an outreach pipeline: compile and prioritize companies and roles for customer discovery and potential partnerships. Support customer discovery: conduct interviews, capture insights, and synthesize findings into clear recommendations. Explore commercial viability: contribute to a high-level business plan covering target customers, value proposition, market sizing (TAM/SAM/SOM) and pricing hypotheses, go-to-market options, and what would make this worth pursuing as a standalone business.
What you'll bring
Enrolled in an MBA or MSc (Business/Strategy/Innovation), or a comparable Business Administration program. Interest in business development, go-to-market, and entrepreneurship. You enjoy turning ambiguity into a plan and testing it in the real world. Strong synthesis skills: you can turn messy information into clear decisions. Comfortable working with spreadsheets and writing concise, structured memos. Curious, proactive, and independent: you ask sharp questions and follow them through. Bonus: interest in life sciences or applied AI.
What's on offer
How to take a deep-tech product from technical capability to a credible commercial narrative. Practical approaches to market sizing (TAM/SAM/SOM) and forming pricing hypotheses with limited data. How early-stage teams run customer discovery and turn qualitative insights into strategic decisions. How to think about go-to-market strategy for B2B scientific and lab software. What it looks like to assess whether a product idea is venture-scale, niche, or not worth pursuing.
About the company
Nostics is building a new platform that brings together our AI and software expertise for spectral data processing into a single, end-to-end workflow, from data ingestion and curation to search, annotation, analysis, and model-ready datasets. We’re looking for a Business Development / Market Research Intern to help us validate the market, sharpen our positioning, and build an initial outreach pipeline as we prepare for early pilots.