Startup Intelligence Analyst — Kartawya (Chandigarh, India)

Kartawya is a venture studio. We work inside founding teams — on product, team, and strategy — alongside the people building them. This role sits close to that work.

It is not a research role in the traditional sense. It is about building judgment. The kind that helps us decide which founders to back, what to tell them when things are unclear, and where opportunities or risks are forming before they are obvious.

About the role Your work feeds into how we think. You will track what is happening across Indian startups and turn it into something useful. Not summaries.

Insight. The job is to figure out what actually matters and explain why. You might read a funding announcement and ask what it signals about a market.

Or track a policy update and break down how it could quietly affect a company’s future. Or notice a pattern across companies that others are missing. Where you look, what you read, and how you connect dots is largely up to you.

That judgment is the role. Over time, you will build an internal intelligence layer that the entire team uses. Who we’re hiring This is for someone early.

Final-year student or recent graduate. Up to one year of experience. Any background — engineering, economics, journalism, law, MBA, liberal arts.

It doesn’t matter. What matters is how you think. What we look for You already follow the Indian startup ecosystem because you’re curious, not because someone told you to.

You don’t just read that a company raised money. You think about what it changes — for them, their competitors, and the market. You write clearly.

No fluff. No over-explaining. You use AI tools like ChatGPT, Claude, or Perplexity — not to outsource thinking, but to sharpen it.

To test an idea, structure a note, or move faster without losing depth. If you’ve interned at a startup, newsroom, consulting firm, or research org, that helps. But it’s not required.

What the job involves You will track startups across sectors and build a view on what’s happening beneath the surface. You will follow regulatory developments — RBI, IRDAI, DPDP, DPIIT, ONDC — and translate them into plain language before they become a problem for someone we work with. You will connect dots across companies, sectors, and signals.

And you will build a body of work that others in the team rely on when making decisions. This role will expand with you. Hiring process Two stages.

First: send us 150 words — not more — on one Indian startup you think is making a strategic mistake right now, and what that mistake is. No CV needed here. Second: a short take-home assignment based on a real company.

You’ll have 48 hours and can use only public information. We’re not looking for the “right” answer. We’re looking at how you think.

Details Location: Chandigarh (remote-friendly) Type: Full-time Experience: Fresher / 0–2 year Apply via LinkedIn