The Role
As an intern at Wintermute Ventures, you will engage in research, due diligence, and portfolio management while optimizing workflows using AI and assisting in investment operations.
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About Wintermute
At Wintermute our mission is to enable, empower and advance the truly decentralized world for more transparent and efficient markets and products.
We do this by providing liquidity algorithmically across most trading venues in crypto, supporting all major centralized and decentralized trading venues, AMMs, RFQs, aggregators and chains. Wintermute is also offering best-in-class OTC products to crypto native as well as traditional financial institutions.
Wintermute is actively participating in the building and development of the blockchain ecosystem through investments from Wintermute Ventures, partnerships and co-development with upcoming protocols and incubation of own projects. We act as official liquidity providers for a large number of the world’s highest profile blockchain projects.
Wintermute is a hyper-growth highly profitable business with a very ambitious vision and roadmap. We are backed by Lightspeed, Pantera Capital, Sino Global Capital, Blockchain.com Ventures, Avon Ventures by Fidelity Investments, DeFi Alliance and other top tier investors. We are run as a technology company, not a financial service provider, and we build our culture around core values of ambition, collaboration, entrepreneurship, transparency and meritocracy.
About Wintermute Ventures
Wintermute Ventures is the investment arm of Wintermute. We back early stage companies and protocols across DeFi, infrastructure, applications, market structure and emerging ecosystems.
We invest with the benefit of Wintermute's deep market access, trading expertise, and connectivity across the crypto ecosystem. This gives us a practical lens on what is being built, where liquidity is forming, and which products have the potential to become important market infrastructure. Since 2020, Wintermute Ventures has invested in more than 120 projects. Alongside our venture portfolio, we also manage a substantial liquid token portfolio across L1s, L2s, DeFi, infrastructure, and new ecosystems.
This role is ideal for someone who is genuinely interested in crypto markets and enjoys working at the intersection of fundamental research, market structure, token analysis, and investment judgment. You will need to be flexible and adaptable, as the role will span different parts of the investment lifecycle.
About the role:
This internship is targeted at university students across Bachelors, Masters, MBA, or other postgraduate programs in Tech, Business, Sciences, Finance, Economics or a related field. We are looking for candidates with meaningful and current personal experience in crypto, graduating either this year or 2027 at the latest.
The internship start date and duration can be flexibly structured around your Summer 2026 term dates, however we require a full-time commitment anywhere between 8 weeks to 12 weeks. You will get exposure to live deal flow, portfolio management, protocol analysis, investment diligence, and internal discussions across our network. You will be expected to take ownership of real work, form clear views, and communicate your thinking well.This internship offers a potential pathway to full-time employment, with past interns having gone on to secure permanent roles. High-performing interns who demonstrate strong results, cultural fit, and alignment with our team may be offered a full-time role at the end of the program.
Whilst the internship role is remote, any resulting full-time offer will be based in either New York or Singapore.
As such, we will only accept intern candidates with valid work permits in either jurisdiction, graduating either this year or 2027. Please ensure you meet this criteria prior to applying.
Responsibiliites:
- AI workflows - Take ownership of projects that help the desk optimise internal workflows using AI. This could include work across portfolio management, sourcing, deal flow analytics or marketing and branding initiatives.
- Research - Conduct deep-dive comprehensive research on across crypto verticals, chains, DeFi protocols, and emerging market themes.
- Due diligence - Support due diligence on investment opportunities including protocol research, technical due diligence, tokenomics analysis, market research, product reviews, competitive analysis, metrics analysis and customer/user reviews.
- Investment operations - Take ownership of logging trades to account for portfolio activity. This extends to labelling on-chain activity (trades, staking rewards, airdrops, etc.) for accounting purposes and liaising with internal / external parties including trading desks, middle office, finance functions and administrative support.
- Portfolio management and sourcing - Support portfolio monitoring and help proactively identify new investment opportunities.
You will need to be independent, adaptable and be creative with a solution-oriented mindset. Some examples of your role include:
Hard Skills Requirements:
- Business fluent English.
- High AI acumen to adapt existing workflows.
- Advanced command of Excel/Google Sheets.
- Proven track record of personal on-chain activity, especially in the DeFi space.
- Strong written and analytical skills for deal analysis and internal reporting.
- Familiarity with analysing on-chain transactions using block explorers across multiple chains.
- Ability to think analytically and strategically about investment decisions and ongoing work with existing portfolio companies.
- Ability to work well within a team and be self-guided on a day-to-day basis.
Bonus Requirements:
- A technical background or experience in data science is a plus.
- Strong network in crypto is a plus.
- An understanding of venture capital and crypto deal terms is a plus.
Perks:
- Competitive compensation
- Flat company structure: your ideas get heard by the right people very quickly
- Work alongside industry experts and connect with professionals across various departments.
- Engaging projects offering accelerated responsibility and ownership compared to traditional finance environments.
- Dynamic and multicultural work environment (20 nationalities and counting!)
Skills Required
- Business fluent English
- High AI acumen to adapt existing workflows
- Advanced command of Excel and Google Sheets
- Proven track record of personal on-chain activity, especially in DeFi
- Strong written and analytical skills for deal analysis and internal reporting
- Familiarity with analysing on-chain transactions using block explorers across multiple chains
- Ability to think analytically and strategically about investment decisions
- Ability to work well within a team and be self-guided on a day-to-day basis
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The Company
What We Do
Wintermute is one of the largest crypto-native algorithmic trading companies in digital assets. We provide liquidity algorithmically across most cryptocurrency exchanges and trading platforms, offer a broad range of OTC trading products, and support high-profile Web3 projects and traditional financial institutions moving into crypto. We actively participate in the development of the cryptocurrency ecosystem through investments, partnerships, and incubation of projects. Wintermute was founded in 2017 by industry leaders and has successfully navigated multiple crypto industry cycles. Culturally, we combine the best of the two worlds: the technology standards of high-frequency trading firms in traditional markets and the innovative and entrepreneurial culture of technology startups.
