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Veliu

AI-powered trade-in platform for circular economy

Founder Associate Intern

InternshipUpdated on 10/24/2026
€5.77/hr
Milan, Metropolitan City of Milan, Italy
In Person
Business & StrategyBusiness Operations

About the job

Requirements
  • The candidate should have an entrepreneurial mindset, be eager to learn, comfortable with uncertainty, and willing to take on practical work.
  • The candidate should have a builder mentality and prior experience starting a project, side hustle, student initiative, or similar effort.
  • The candidate should have a deep interest in startups, technology, fintech, or the circular economy.
Responsibilities
  • Join key meetings concerning the product roadmap, vision, and go-to-market strategy.
  • Collaborate on financial models, cash flow planning, and growth tactics.
  • Help manage key customer relationships and close early strategic deals.
  • Assist in preparing updates, pitch decks, and communications for venture capital firms, banks, and sector partners.
  • Work hands-on with artificial intelligence, automation, application programming interfaces, and low-code/no-code tools.
Desired Qualifications
  • Experience building and launching software, a web application, or a product, independently or with a team.
  • Experience using no-code or low-code tools such as n8n, Lovable, application programming interfaces, or Bubble.io.

About the company

VELIU provides an AI-powered fintech platform that helps consumers monetize pre-owned goods by offering trade-in options through partners like retailers, e-commerce platforms, and telecoms. The platform gives instant valuations for millions of products and connects shoppers to a network of professional buyers, while handling logistics via about 2,000 collection points and using renewable-energy servers. It differentiates itself by delivering turnkey B2B2C integrations that enable trade-in without price cuts, supported by rapid AI valuations and a broad, sustainable value chain across collection, refurbishment, and recycling. Its goal is to scale circular economy activities by making asset monetization easy, reducing waste, and promoting sustainable consumption through widespread adoption of trade-in and re-commerce in Europe.

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Headquarters

Milan, Italy

Founded

2024

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What believers are saying

  • July 2025 funding from Emblem, B Heroes, and Simon Fiduciaria extends runway.
  • Milan and Dublin hiring suggests active buildout across sales, product, and engineering.
  • Rising AI-shopping adoption in 2026 fits Veliu's agent-readable catalog positioning.

What critics are saying

  • Stealth since 2024 leaves customer traction unproven against Back Market and Swappie.
  • September 2026 jobs show nine openings, signaling burn before revenue visibility.
  • Agentic-commerce pivot risks product confusion; two narratives usually kill startup credibility fast.

What makes Veliu unique

  • 2026 product pivots to agent-readable catalogs for AI shopping agents.
  • July 2025 €3.4 million pre-seed funded Dublin-Milan team from Palantir, Apple, eBay.
  • No-code retail integration and 2,000 collection points simplify trade-in deployment.

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