Founder in Residence, Climate Resilience

🕒 February 10

🇬🇧 United Kingdom – Remote

💵 £5k / month

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

🎲 Risk

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Deep Science Ventures

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11 - 50 employees

🔬 Science

🌾 Agriculture

💊 Pharmaceuticals

Science • Agriculture • Pharmaceuticals

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

• Join DSV’s venture creation programme as a Founder-in-Residence and work closely with the DSV and Renaissance Philanthropy team to spin out the new company. • You will refine, improve and complement existing scoping work on the technical thesis for crop systems that can be primed for resilience in the face of increasingly unpredictable and severe climate pressures. • Commercial neglect (IP strategy, differentiation, competition); Value proposition (market, value capture, techno-economics); Regulatory strategy & positioning; Fundraising strategy & pitching; Optimising company strategy for the most rapid and de-risked path to Series A. • Preparation for Investment Committee (IC) will involve fulfilling our investment criteria, recruiting advisory and co-founding team members, and parallel fundraising for additional expansion funds. • Assuming success at IC, you will receive pre-seed investment and spinout the company by the end of Q2 2027.

🎯 Requirements

• You are highly motivated by unsolved challenges in weed control, and driven to challenge the status quo in agrochemicals. • You are impact driven, take the initiative, make things happen, and think from a first principles perspective to figure out what’s really needed. • You have clear entrepreneurial spirit and mindset, demonstrated through impactful innovation, and an ability to work in ambiguous, unstructured but fast-paced, demanding and pressurised environments. • Collaborative nature, with the ability to work effectively in cross-functional teams. • Core science depth (PhD or equivalent industry R&D know-how) in plant physiology, crop science, molecular biology, epigenetics, microbiology (or similar), with knowledge breadth across technological areas relevant for priming plant resilience. • Translational execution: e.g. taking traits / actives from discovery to field, managing CRO/CDMO programs, building regulator / investor / customer-ready data packages; and/or partnership development (growers, CROs/CDMOs, suppliers) and scalable IP strategy. • Venture creation/fundraising; and/or product leadership in agtech / biotech or adjacent areas.

🏖️ Benefits

• We provide optimised, purpose-built, proprietary tools, resources and processes to help create high-impact ventures from scratch, using our venture creation methodology. • DSV and RenPhil's extensive network incl. leaders of biotech VCs, technical & commercial domain expertise, and wide-ranging portfolio company capabilities. • We jointly provide an initial £250k (~$340k / €290k) investment governed by our Investment Committee to incorporate the new venture and develop early proof-of-concept data that is often needed to attract high profile non-venture studio VCs. This funding is also key for obtaining grant funding, which often needs to be matched with private investment. • You and your co-founder(s) together will own the majority equity stake in the company. • We provide minimum guaranteed income of £4,166 per month (fixed), paid to each Founder as a consultancy fee until the company is launched and pre-seed investment is secured. • We provide continuous support post spin-out, including fundraising, commercial partnerships, recruitment and team-building (amongst other things). • Other Founders currently at DSV across sectors working collaboratively and supporting one another - a unique resource to draw on.