Founding Data Scientist (m/w/d) in Berlin

We're looking for a Founding Data Scientist to build the data foundation and intelligent data-intensive platform features. You'll work closely with the founding and engineering team to help M&A Advisors, Private Equity & Search Funds identify and assess companies and find relevant sellers and buyers. You'll own the process end-to-end, from sourcing and preparing data to integrating your models and analyses into our product.

What you will do

Your Main Responsibilities

• Build and improve our foundation of company, investor, people and market data
• Develop and deploy systems for sourcing, enrichment, matching and forecasting
• Measure and ensure data quality and model performance

Your Profile

• Strong experience (2–3+ years) in Data Science or applied Machine Learning with Python and SQL, ideally working with company or financial data
• Experience combining, cleaning and enriching large, diverse datasets and building reliable data pipelines
• Hands‑on experience with NLP, embeddings and LLMs to extract, structure and analyze unstructured information
• Strong understanding of statistics and model evaluation, with the ability to translate business questions into analyses and production-ready solutions
• Strong organizational & prioritization skills
• Excellent communication skills in English and preferrably German

Your Tasks

• Source company, investor, people and market data with reliably built pipelines to keep it accurate and up to date
• Enrich datasets using external sources and LLMs to extract and structure information from websites, registries and documents
• Develop entity resolution and matching models to connect companies, investors and people across sources and identify relevant targets
• Design relational data models that capture ownership structures, financial data and relationships between companies, investors and people
• Build forecasting models to analyze trends and predict relevant company, investor eand market developments
• Establish benchmarks and quality checks to evaluate data coverage, enrichment accuracy and model performance
• Work closely with the engineering and founding teams to integrate data into our platform and shape our development priorities
• Attractive compensation package with equity (job specific)
• Direct mentorship with the founders and their network
• Meaningful work that reaches our software & service clients
• Exposure to M&A Advisors, Private Equity, Search Funds as well as the Berlin Startup Ecosystem
• Regular team events, social activities and company off-sites
• Amazing office at "The Delta Campus" in Berlin with a food court, gym, rooftop, unlimited snacks & drinks

If this role sounds like a good fit, we’d love to hear from you.

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