Founders’ Associate Intern - M&A & Strategy (m/f/d)

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## **Berlin · Full-time Internship · 3–6 months** **About Limetax** Limetax is building the agentic-first accounting and tax group for German SMEs. We acquire established accounting and tax advisory firms and onboard them to our proprietary agentic platform, combining deep industry expertise with AI-native technology. Backed by $40m in equity and debt from top-tier investors, we're building and scaling a new kind of accounting & tax group in Germany. Our founders bring significant experience across M&A, operations, and AI-native technology, having previously built and scaled unicorns, Razor Group and Augustus. **The Role** As a **Founders’ Associate Intern – M&A & Strategy**, you'll work directly with our founding team on the growth of Limetax. Your primary focus will be our acquisition activities. You'll contribute to live deal processes across the full investment cycle — from identifying and evaluating potential acquisition targets to financial analysis, due diligence, and transaction preparation. Beyond M&A, you'll work on selected strategic projects and gain exposure to the broader questions involved in building and scaling Limetax. **What You'll Work On** - **Evaluate acquisitions.** Analyze potential targets, understand their financial performance and business model, build valuation cases, and develop a view on whether we should pursue a deal. - **Support live transactions.** Work across sourcing, due diligence, and deal execution alongside the founders and investment team. - **Work on fundraising.** Support financing processes with research, analysis, and investor materials. - **Solve strategic questions.** Analyze new opportunities, markets, and initiatives and turn incomplete information into clear recommendations. - **Build how the group operates.** Help develop the processes and structures we use to integrate acquired firms and scale Limetax. - **Pick up what matters.** Take ownership of high-priority topics that sit between teams or don't yet have a natural owner. **What We're Looking For** - Initial experience in top-tier investment banking, strategy consulting, private equity, or a high-growth startup. One relevant internship can be enough. - Strong academic track record and excellent analytical and quantitative skills. - You can structure an ambiguous problem, work with incomplete information, and still arrive at a clear recommendation. - You're comfortable building financial models that others can understand, challenge, and use. - You move fast, care about the details, and take ownership through execution — not just analysis. - You are comfortable using AI tools as part of your day-to-day work. - You have an entrepreneurial mindset and genuine interest in M&A, strategy, and company building. - Professional German and English; German is mandatory. **Why Limetax** - **Direct founder exposure.** Work directly with the founders on decisions that shape the company. - **Real ownership.** Own meaningful projects and see them through from question to outcome. - **Live M&A.** Work on real acquisition processes where you become an actual part of the deal team. - **Broad exposure.** Move between M&A, fundraising, strategy, and operations depending on what matters most. - **Build with AI from day one.** Work in a company where AI is part of both the product and how we operate. - **Potential full-time path.** Exceptional performers may have the opportunity to join Limetax permanently after the internship.