Co-Founder, Commercial

🕒 June 24

🇬🇧 United Kingdom – Remote

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Deep Science Ventures

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11 - 50 employees

🏥 Healthcare

🍽️ Food & Beverage

🔬 Science

Healthcare • Food & Beverage • Science

Deep Science Ventures is a venture creation company that combines available scientific knowledge with founder-type scientists to build high-impact start-ups. The company is focused on four key sectors: Agriculture, Computation, Climate, and Pharma. They aim to transition agriculture from extractive to regenerative practices, unlock computational leverage, reverse global heating, and create therapies to cure diseases. Deep Science Ventures has launched 42 companies, is involved in 37 in-development projects, and has attracted $160 million in funding with a portfolio valuation of $430 million.

📋 Description

• Customer discovery and market prioritisation - from cold outreach to binding offtake agreements • Feedstock supply partnerships with waste management companies • Strategic partnerships with compounders, distributors, and brand owners • Techno-economic modelling and pricing strategy alongside the technical founder • Fundraising - leading commercial due diligence, building investor relationships, and closing rounds • Company strategy as a core member of the founding team • Building and leading the commercial team as you scale

🎯 Requirements

• Experienced founder/operator, with proven commercial track record in materials, chemicals, packaging, or adjacent industrial sectors - from cold outreach to signed deals • Experience in an early-stage or startup environment; comfortable owning outcomes with limited resources • Strong financial literacy - able to build, interrogate, and communicate financial models • Experience fundraising from VC • Excellent stakeholder communication - credible with customers, investors, and a technical co-founder alike • Valuable: Network across plastics, packaging or waste management industries • Familiarity with circular economy trends, recycling value chains and EU regulatory frameworks • Experience managing application testing programmes or go-to-market strategy in materials • Background in regulatory pathways for chemicals or materials.

🏖️ Benefits

• The Setup: This role is structured as a Founder in Residence through Deep Science Ventures, with the venture targeting incorporation and spin-out asap. • The venture spins out with £250k in inception capital from DSV and Valterra Platinum (formerly Anglo American Platinum). • Majority equity stake between you and your co-founder(s) and salary is negotiated as part of the spin-out. • Post-launch, DSV provides continuous support - fundraising, partnerships, recruitment. • Remote-first, open globally, with a preference for UK/Europe.