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Founder Associate Intern @Pelagon (backed by Hexa) Hexa
Startup studio launching companies in AI, fintech, health, and web3.
Internship
Paris
Occasional remote
Salary: Not specified
You'll be part of
Incubator / Accelerator
Corporate Support
Average age: 34
60%
40%
Founded in 2011 as eFounders, Hexa is a startup studio that has launched over 40 companies with a combined valuation of over $4.5bn, including Aircall, Spendesk, Front, Swan, Yousign, and Upflow.
Today, our focus is on launching companies in the areas of AI, future of work, health, fintech, and web3 - with even more verticals to come. By 2030, our goal is to launch 30 startups a year.
Our unique model allows us to build companies from scratch in collaboration with exceptional founders, bringing them on board for 12 months while building the company together, from product to fundraising.
How do we do it? We provide entrepreneurs with:
- Foolproof startup ideas to beat the odds
- A team to build a best-in-class MVP
- A methodology to bring their product to market faster
- A brand to attract top talents
- Capital to fund the first 12-18 months of their startup’s life
- A community of fellow entrepreneurs & peers for life
Our approach creates exceptional companies: for us, that means startups that are fueled by ambition, and driven by purpose.
You'll be working on
Who are we?
The sea is the physical layer of the economy: our energy, data and trade move across it and under it. It is also Europe’s most exposed flank. Cheap underwater drones, divers and mines now threaten ports, naval bases, subsea cables and offshore energy sites.
Pelagon builds maritime interdiction: a persistent sensing network running our own acoustic-first AI detects and classifies underwater and surface threats, so operators can act on them. We work with navies and with the civilian operators of ports, subsea cables and offshore energy.
Pelagon was founded by Aymeric de Pontbriand (serial deeptech entrepreneur, founded and exited Scortex) and Gauthier Bouxin (French Navy officer, then McKinsey). Backed by Hexa and leading European investors.
By joining us, you’ll play a key role in keeping a fast-moving defence startup running: the paperwork, the bills and the admin processes, and getting our systems into the water. Every test, fair, demo and admin file goes through you.
🎯 Your mission
Run the company’s admin: paperwork, supplier invoices and bills, expense receipts, contracts and forms, insurance, permits and declarations, offices.
Build the admin processes: who does what, where every document lives, which deadline comes next, so nothing slips as the team grows.
Own the logistics of our equipment: inventory, orders, packing, shipping, and driving the gear to test sites.
Run data collection campaigns at sea with our hardware team: prepare, deploy, recover, log the data.
Make every fair and demo happen: stand material, shipping, permits, boats, set-up on site.
Support the founders on the business plan and the monthly numbers.
🤩 This job is your dream job if:
You like things in order: every invoice filed, every form sent on time, every deadline in your tracker
You’d rather be on a boat with a sensor than in front of a slide deck
You’ve built, deployed or repaired real things and you like it when it gets wet
You plan ahead, keep checklists and follow up without being chased
You want to see from the inside how a defence startup is built
🙅 This job is not for you if:
You want remote work or a pure engineering design role
Paperwork, bills and admin processes feel beneath you: they are a real part of this job
Early starts, cold days at sea and travel at short notice put you off
What we offer
A founding role in a seed-stage defence tech company, working directly with the founders
Real deployments at sea and on navy and operator sites
Offices in Paris
We're looking for
Requirements
Engineering or science profile preferred, final year or recent graduate
French fluent and working English
EU citizenship (defence site access and security clearance)
Driving licence (B)
Based in Paris, on site full time
How we hire
🧭 Our recruitment process
A 30 minute intro call with Roland, our Chief of Staff.
A 60 minute deep dive with Gauthier: your background, one project you built, and a short logistics exercise.
A company fit conversation with Aymeric and the team.
We answer within 48 h after each step.
Pelagon is committed to creating a diverse environment. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment irrespective of gender, origin, identity, background and sexual orientation. Defence and maritime have long been male-dominated fields: we actively encourage women to apply.
Key figures
In short
Average age
34
Gender
40%
60%
