About DSV

Deep Science Ventures is a venture creator, combining available scientific knowledge and founder-type scientists into high-impact ventures, to build a future where humanity and the planet thrive. In our focus on Climate, we’re creating ventures to reverse global heating. We believe in long-term strategic thinking and a concerted effort to identify drastic, creative and scalable solutions in which climate change can be reversed. 

About the role 

As an Associate you will work with our Climate team, our current and future Climate Founders and other Associates (from Agri and Pharma sectors) focusing on systemic analysis or “scoping”, as we call it, of opportunity areas (OAs) for new climate venture development, identifying the sort of technologies and ventures that should exist but don’t.

While your main focus will be on opportunity analysis, you’ll be involved across all core functions of venture development, including talent and team building, business development, fundraising and portfolio management to quickly develop a broad understanding of the scope of all activities within the business.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Research and identify new OAs for building ventures that tackle climate change and the net-zero carbon transition;
• Recruit a team of multidisciplinary founder-type scientists and work together on venture creation;
• Drive the venture creation process from idea generation to pre-seed and seed investments;
• Support fundraising and business development efforts for the sector.

Who should apply

KEY REQUIREMENTS

• Deep technical understanding of chemistry, ideally also chemical engineering and/or materials science (e.g. metals)
• Industrial process scale-up experience (ideally);
• Demonstrated interest in climate tech e.g. negative emissions technologies, critical materials, carbon neutral or negative fuels, heating technologies and/or novel mining and refining techniques etc.;
• PhD in any of (or similar): chemistry, materials chemistry, inorganic chemistry, synthetic biology;
• Demonstrated interest in applied science and early stage commercialisation is a plus, ideally with previous experience working in or with startups/VC and/or Analyst-type roles or in product development.