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Summer in Israel. Lifelong Fellowship

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Excel selects extraordinary college students around the world for a summer business or tech internship in Tel Aviv at companies widely regarded as leaders in their fields. Additionally, each Excel Fellow is paired with an Israeli peer to see Israel through a local lens. Other components of the summer program are a speaker series a few evenings each week featuring leaders across Israeli society from business to media to government to diverse Israeli communities, along with three weekend trips within Israel. Upon returning from the summer, Excel Fellows enter the Global Excel Fellowship community that provides resources and guidance for professional development, personal growth, and Jewish community building.

Excel Fellows Intern At These Companies And More

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Biotech Business Development

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Consulting

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Engineering

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Environmental Sustainability

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Finance

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Venture Capital

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Startups

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Software Development / Computer Science

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Marketing

Biotech Business Development

Biotech Business Development Internships

Israel is a global leader in dozens of growth industries and gives interns work that more closely mirrors that of entry level professional roles post college. In other words, you’ll be immersed in the business from day one, and you’ll benefit from one-on-one mentoring that is a foundational aspect of Excel internships.

Zoom Out: What is Biotech?

Biotech focuses on developing products, design and delivery in the field of medicine, such as gene therapy and diagnostic tests to detect disease.

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Digital Health Precision Medicine

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Biotech Business Analyst

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Biotech Business Development Manager

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Partnerships Manager

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Business Development for Biotech Startup

Consulting

Consulting Internships

Excel offers summer consulting internships at several companies in and around Tel Aviv, Israel, including Deloitte and EY

Zoom Out: What is Consulting?

Consulting, sometimes called Management Consulting, is essentially a problem solving business taking a deep dive, case study approach into the business of client companies to understand how the business functions and earns revenue. Consulting focuses on taking a strategic approach to helping leaders at various companies analyze and fix complex business problems.

Consulting companies typically organize their business and strategy consulting teams in a range of vertical industries, such as: Aviation, Automotive, Consumer Products, Defense, Energy, Financial Services, Healthcare, Private Equity, Retail, Sustainability, Technology, Telecommunications, Startups —among others.

Zoom In: What Does a Consulting Summer Intern Do?

Consulting summer interns work both in a team setting and independently to unearth relevant data to better understand the competition, economic indicators effecting the business and industry in order to develop recommendations to the client on how to expand or resuscitate growth to their business. In some cases, this includes recommendations on new revenue streams.

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Strategy Consulting Intern

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Corporate Strategy Analyst

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Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) Consultant

Engineering

Engineering Internships

Excel offers summer electrical and mechanical engineering internships at firms such as GM and Mercedes

Zoom Out: What Are Electrical and Mechanical Engineering?

Electrical engineers design, develop, test and manage the manufacturing of electrical equipment from electric motors and navigation systems to power generation equipment and personal devices.
Mechanical engineering is the application of the principles and problem-solving techniques of engineering. Mechanical engineering combines engineering physics and mathematics with materials science to design, analyze, manufacture and maintain mechanical systems, such as power producing machines. They deal with anything that moves, from components to machines to the human body.

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Innovation Analyst

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Automotive User Experience Technologies Intern

Environmental Sustainability

Environmental Sustainability Internships

Excel offers summer environmental sustainability internships at several companies in and around Tel Aviv, Israel

Zoom Out: What is Environmental Sustainability?

Environmental Sustainability, sometimes called Green Energy or Renewable Energy, is the practice of interacting with the planet responsibly. In doing so, the usage of natural resources are such that current needs are fulfilled without compromising that of future generations. Companies that focus on environmental sustainability help ensure that their products and operations contribute to important environmental goals. Sustainable business practices can benefit bottom lines by reducing operating costs, improving brand reputation, and delivering competitive advantages.

Practices in Environmental Sustainability exist in varied business verticals from consulting to startups to business development in nearly every industry

Zoom In: What Does an Environmental Sustainability Summer Intern Do?

Environmental Sustainability summer interns help leading companies establish their sustainability strategy and management systems as well as their environmental business risk assessment, carbon footprint calculation, and other matters involving environmental compliance

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Climate Change and Sustainability Strategy Intern

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Climate Tech Venture Capital Associate

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Innovation Analyst

Finance

Finance Internships

Excel offers summer finance internships at several companies in and around Tel Aviv, Israel, including Evercore and Houlihan Lokey

Zoom Out: What Do We Mean by a Finance Internship?

Finance encompasses many roles and specialty firms from investment banking for mergers and acquisitions to private equity to hedge funds and fintech.
While Excel’s finance internships focus on investment banking and private and growth equity, interns gain broad skills that will serve them well if they choose to enter other areas of finance.

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Investment Banking Analyst

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Private Equity Analyst

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Deal Advisory Associate

Venture Capital

Venture Capital Internships

Excel offers summer venture capital internships across firms specializing in Series A, Series B, and Series C. Venture Capital Internship Companies Include – Battery Ventures, Entrée Capital, Viola.
Many of the companies Venture Capital firms invest in are considered startups and several have become Unicorns.

Zoom Out: What is Venture Capital?

Venture Capital is a type of financing that investors provide to startup companies that they identify to have long term growth potential. Venture Capital firms assess the risk/reward of their investment in exchange for equity, typically a minority stake in the business, in the hopes of a successful public or private exit in the future.

Israel is the world’s leader per capita in Venture Capital, hence the term and book that followed, “Startup Nation.” Beyond those created in Israel, there are several international Venture Capital funds with Israeli offices.

Typically an intern will be involved in anything from competitive landscape analysis, due diligence on potential investments and/or portfolio companies, and preparation for pitch meetings.

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VC Analyst

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Early-Stage VC Analyst

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Venture Capital Intern

Startups

Startup Internships

Excel offers summer internships at a wide range of Startups from a diverse set of industries such as freelance services to healthcare technology to project management. Companies – Fiverr, Monday.com

Zoom Out: What is a Startup?

Technically, a startup is a company in the initial stages of developing its business operations. Founders typically provide the initial financing and then attempt to attract outside investment before they are fully up and running. Startup formats range from scalable startups which are typically in a tech niche to small business, big business, and social startups. Instagram, AirBnb, and Uber were once Startups.

Startups offer a wide range of internship roles, among them: content marketing, data science and analysis, project management, finance, partnerships and product management.

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Partnerships Team Associate

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Business Development Analyst

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Project Manager

Software Development / Computer Science

Cyber Technology and Software Development Internships

Excel offers summer internships in Cyber Technology at firms such as Check Point and Team 8, and Software Development internships, including Software Engineering, at firms such as Wix.

Zoom Out? What Do We Mean by Cyber Technology and Software Development?

Cyber Technology is the protection of systems supported by the web such as hardware, software and data from cyberthreats. Cyber Tech is implemented by individuals, companies and governments to protect against unauthorized access to data centers and other computerized systems.

Israel is a world powerhouse in Cyber Technology/Cyber Security with over 40% of all cyber investments made in Israel. One third of the world’s unicorn cyber companies — private startups worth at least $1 billion — are Israeli. Israel has established six Cyber Research Centers at Israeli universities.

Software Development involves computer science dedicated to creating and deploying software that is written in computer code by a developer.
Development comes in several forms such as: Frontend (builds the part of websites that people see), Backend (working on the server-side of software — everything you can’t see), Full-Stack (front and backend), Database, Cloud Computing (data storage and computing power).

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Software Engineer

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Sports Data Analyst

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Software Developer

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Product Manager Intern

Marketing

Marketing Internships

Excel offers summer marketing internships at companies that provide strategic planning, content strategy and development, marketing science/data analysis as well as content creation, media planning and public relations services. Companies – ironSource, Deloitte Digital Awesome

Zoom Out: What is Marketing?

Marketing is the action a business or organization takes to promote their products and services to their target audience. Marketing includes research, strategy and planning, creative development, including: television, experiential, and social media content strategy and production, influencer partnerships, analytics, and public relations outreach. All of this is done in the service of building interest in a brand or company for profit or for funding social impact causes.

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Content Marketing Intern

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Venture Capital Marketing Analyst

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Cyber Security Startup Marketing Analyst

Our Highly Accomplished Fellows Hail From A Wide Range Of Universities, Including:

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Sasha Gerber

Duke University

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Lexie Finkelstein

University of Michigan

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Allie Goodfriend

University of Texas

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Max Katz

University of Michigan

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Naomi Benenson

Princeton University

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David Ifergan

Queen's University

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Natalia Justus

Tecnologico de Monterrey

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Zander Blitzer

Brown University

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Ariela Cesarman

Tecnologico de Monterey

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Let’s Get Started

Your Excel Experience

Start your journey with us. You’re just a few simple steps away.

Step 1

Apply for the program
starting early September.

Step 1

Apply for the program
starting early September.

Step 2

If you’re a fit, you will be contacted to participate in our interview process which begins with a first-round interview conducted by Excel Fellows who have graduated from college. From there, selected applicants will be moved to a second-round interview which is led by the Excel Admissions Team.

Step 3

If you’re accepted, we’ll match you with an internship reflecting your career goals.

Step 4

Pack your bags and fly to Israel!

Step 5

Meet the community of Excel Fellows including your Israeli peer fellow.

Step 6

While an intern for the summer, engage in: evening speaker events, summer trips within Israel, and mentorship at the company where you intern

Step 7

Join a lifelong community of friends who become family and a prestigious network that has your back when you get back.

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