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MATTERs mission is to accelerate the pace of change of healthcare.
We believe that collaboration between entrepreneurs and industry leaders is the fastest, most effective way to accelerate innovation, advance care and improve lives. MATTER is organized as a not-for-profit company and built to be a neutral platform where entrepreneurs can come together with industry leaders, scientists and clinicians from across the globe to collaborate on developing next-generation healthcare and life sciences technologies.
Commitment to diversity
MATTER welcomes and actively encourages individuals of diverse ethnic and racial backgrounds to apply for this internship program. We are committed to building and sustaining an inclusive and equitable working environment for our team and our community.
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About our summer internship program
Summer interns at MATTER learn how to work in a startup environment and build valuable skills while gaining exposure to all organizational capabilities and departments. Interns are assigned to one of our teams:
- Venture Acceleration
- Corporate Innovation
- Marketing
- Operations
- Executive
In order to allow you to take advantage of all that MATTER has to offer, there are ample opportunities to engage with other teams and also work on projects from multiple teams. This flexibility makes the entire 10-week experience, which runs June 10 to August 16, 2023, highly personalized meaning that you get to determine what youd like to learn from us.
Some past intern projects and opportunities have included:
- Conducting market research to identify emerging trends in women's health innovation
- Performing tech scans to source startups for MATTER innovation accelerators
- Attending meetings with healthcare innovators including entrepreneurs, industry executives and investors
- Building a database of angel investors for our startup companies
- Interviewing MATTER customers for insights on how to improve our service offerings
- Supporting development and launch of a community web portal and extracting engagement data
- Developing an ecosystem asset map of local and national organizations working in health equity
What you can expect from us
Learn the complexities of healthcare, entrepreneurship and how technology is improving health and healthcare. Get a hands-on learning experience which will help you develop your industry and general business acumen.
What we expect from you
We expect you to be intrinsically motivated and have an interest in healthcare, entrepreneurship and technology all key drivers for your learning experience. Were a learning organization, and want you to mirror that same enthusiasm for lifelong learning. You should be: proactive, resourceful, engaged, reliable, positive, collaborative, tech-savvy, intellectually curious and detail-oriented. The most successful interns have been comfortable working in a startup environment, navigating complexity and are self-starters.
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MATTER Intern Experience
We believe that meaningful internship experiences are built on community, and we strive to cultivate an engaging and welcoming atmosphere for our interns with weekly talks, regular intern huddles and engagement with the MATTER team. We encourage our interns to build connections with each other over the course of the internship. Overall, we want our interns to feel comfortable being who they are at work, asking questions, forming authentic relationships and having fun.
Heres what some of our interns have said about working at MATTER:
- I really appreciate MATTERs commitment to inclusion in leveraging its resources and network to improve the entrepreneur scene in Chicago and enable additional voices to be included in a field where BIPOC are typically underrepresented.
- Im grateful to work at a place where I feel like being myself and having fun are part of my everyday life at MATTER. People genuinely want to help you make the most of your experience, learn whatever youre interested in, and forge long-lasting connections.
- We have opportunities to jump in on projects that we find interesting or want to learn more about, and everyone is always so willing to help out and teach about what they know!
- I personally think you get a lot more from a smaller company! Better, more genuine connections, more opportunities, more networking. MATTER also stresses that everyone is more than coworkers.
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Engagement sessions
All interns will attend regular guest speaker sessions, where a subject-matter expert from the MATTER team or a special guest speaker will share their experiences. These sessions are designed to be interactive, giving interns a chance to engage directly with industry leaders, ask them questions and plug into their professional networks.
Guest speakers from past years include:
- Jeffrey Aronin, Chairman & CEO, Paragon Biosciences
- Caralynn Collens, CEO, Dimension Inx
- Amanda Lannert, CEO, Jellyvision
- Eric Lefkofsky, CEO, Tempus
- Mike Lynch, Operating Partner - Healthcare, Pritzker Private Capital
- Suzanne Munchin, co-founder of Bonfire
- J.B. Pritzker, governor of Illinois and former managing partner, Pritzker Group
- Dr. Khan Siddiqui, CMO/CSO, Hyperfine
- Glen Tullman, Founder & Managing Partner, 7wireVentures and CEO, Transcarent
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Requirements
Candidates must be currently enrolled in a college or university, as well as entering their sophomore year of undergraduate education or beyond to be considered. Graduate students are also welcome to apply.
All applications must be accompanied by a current resume and cover letter.
Our internship will be offered in a hybrid format. For those in Chicago, our office is located at the Merchandise Mart in downtown Chicago. Once students are assigned to their departments and are fully onboarded, they will have the opportunity to work remotely or in the MATTER office.
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Benefits
This internship opportunity is unpaid, but some students may be able to obtain stipends and/or course credit from their universities.
Thank you for your interest in MATTER!
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