Search Fund vs Fintech Startup
I'm a freshman at a semi-target school who's looking at spring semester internships.
My first option is Fintech startup focused on the CRE space where I'd essentially maintain databases and pick up some excel skills. It's a paid internship and it's recently raised money to buy nice offices and benefits.
My second option is a Search Fund which is just starting up. Since it's just starting up I don't know if I'll get the chance to do due diligence on any deals or model in the semester that I'm there.
I'm pretty set on working in finance, but I still don't know what specific industry I want to go into. What should I do?
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More color on the specifics of each role would be helpful.
If the startup option is literally just going to be manual database work, I would lean towards the search fund option. Then again, it's entirely possible that the search fund could end up having you cold call all summer.
You can't really go wrong as far as freshman internships are concerned. That being said, try to go to the place that you think will give you a better overall learning experience
The startup said it would be a lot of data cleaning and augmentation. But they also said they would teach SQL and have formalized classes etc.
The search fund sounds like I'd be pretty much helping the principal start sourcing deals and possibly learning some modeling or do due dilligence along the way.
Gotcha, I'd probably lean a bit more towards the search fund, but frankly can't go wrong either way as a freshman
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