HP Tech Ventures · Jun 2025 · ✅ Verified by Extern
HP Tech Ventures: Deal Sourcing & Startup Analysis Externship
An HP Tech Ventures externship focused on sourcing, diligencing, and evaluating early-stage tech startups for potential investment.
BM@benita-misago·🟢 Open to work
Consulting-focused IT senior who builds data-driven analyses
I combine technical IT training with externship experience in startup diligence, people analytics, and financial modeling to solve business problems.
Work samples
Portfolio items show startup deal sourcing and analysis, persona-driven people analytics and retention strategies, and Excel plus AI financial models with DCFs and investor decks.
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Amazon · Sep 2025 · ✅ Verified by Extern
Amazon Operational Strategy & People Analytics Externship
Imagine shaping how AMAZON — yes, THE Amazon — welcomes and keeps its workforce. Every year, Amazon loses billions because new hires leave before Day 90.You’re going to fix that. In this externship, you’ll web scrape real-world employee reviews from across the web, extract actionable insights, and design persona-driven strategies to help Learning Ambassadors connect smarter, faster, and more humanely.It’s part research, part strategy—and all about learning how people data drives big decisions.
Data AnalysisAI & MLPythonStrategyPresentation Skills
About me
I combine technical IT training with externship experience in startup diligence, people analytics, and financial modeling to solve business problems.
I am Benita Misago, a senior Information Technology major at Towson University with a focus on consulting. I have completed externships in deal sourcing and startup analysis, as well as people analytics and operational strategy at Amazon. Currently, I am working on a Consumer Behavior & Insights project centered on Gen-Z with Pinterest and Extern.
Externships
HP Tech Ventures: Deal Sourcing & Startup Analysis Externship
HP Tech Ventures
Experience
Client Service Associate/Receptionist (Seasonal)
H&R Block · Jan 2025 - Mar 2026
Student Coordinator/Support Assistant
Center for Student Diversity at Towson University · Feb 2024 - May 2025
AI Trainer
Outlier AI · Apr 2025
Customer Service Associate/Cashier
Whole Foods Market · May 2024 - Nov 2024
Prime Grocery Fulfillment Associate
Amazon Prime at Whole Foods Market · Dec 2020 - Aug 2021
Education
Towson University
Information Technology · Class of 2026
Skills
Deal sourcing and startup analysisPeople analytics and retention strategyWeb scraping and text analysisThree-statement financial modelingDiscounted cash flow (DCF) valuationExcel with AI-assisted workflows
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HP Tech Ventures: Deal Sourcing & Startup Analysis Externship
An HP Tech Ventures externship focused on sourcing, diligencing, and evaluating early-stage tech startups for potential investment.
Overview
This externship work sourced early-stage startups, performed company-level due diligence, synthesized findings into structured reports, and produced a concise investment memo. Deliverables include a spreadsheet of five sourced startups, a written due-diligence overview of MatX, a folder of synthesis reports, and a 3-slide Google Slides investment memo.
Google Slides
AccessWhat I've accomplished
I produced a sourced shortlist with profiles, a written due-diligence overview of MatX, a set of synthesis reports (market, tech, leadership, competition, synergy), and a 3-slide investment memo in Google Slides.
Project breakdown
✅ Verified by Extern
Amazon Operational Strategy & People Analytics Externship
Imagine shaping how AMAZON — yes, THE Amazon — welcomes and keeps its workforce. Every year, Amazon loses billions because new hires leave before Day 90.You’re going to fix that. In this externship, you’ll web scrape real-world employee reviews from across the web, extract actionable insights, and design persona-driven strategies to help Learning Ambassadors connect smarter, faster, and more humanely.It’s part research, part strategy—and all about learning how people data drives big decisions.
Data AnalysisAI & MLPythonStrategyPresentation Skills
Overview
The externship analyzed employee voice data from fulfillment centers to clarify operational roles, surface themes, and propose targeted interventions. Work combined role-mapping, transcript collection, sentiment and keyword analysis, thematic synthesis with root-cause trees, cohort segmentation, and a pilot-ready intervention proposal. Deliverables included role tables, cleaned transcripts,
Google Sheets
AccessWhat I've accomplished
I produced a set of operational and people-analytics deliverables: a role responsibilities table, a cleaned YouTube transcript dataset, cross-platform sentiment and keyword comparisons, a themes-and-root-causes report, labeled workforce segments with a ranked priority list, and a three-week pilot plan for pickers with measurable metrics.