JOIN AS A FOUNDER IN RESIDENCE IN CLIMATE (AGRICULTURE)

We’re on the lookout for entrepreneurial individuals with technical and commercial domain expertise with keen interest in founding, and building a global scale, impact driven, high growth company from ground up.
We are seeking applications from experienced industry, startup and/or new science or engineering based technology development professionals from anywhere in the world to work with us on eliminating toxicity from agrochemicals, particularly pesticides.
You’ll work closely with the DSV team, using our methodology, to spin-out a new company. During the programme, you’ll work on all aspects related to venture creation in this opportunity area, including working out the optimal approach to solve for the desired outcome, building a team and building a viable business case. Once the new venture is incorporated with pre-seed investment from DSV, you and your co-founders will own the majority stake in the business and continue receiving support from the DSV team post-spinout.
The role is full-time, remote initially until venture incorporation and spin-out (circa summer/autumn 2026), location TBD.

OUR APPROACH

Our preliminary scoping of the area indicates high potential to develop approaches that meet our desired outcome: pest control that is scalable, durable, and effective without off-target effects. Emerging technologies, from RNAi silencing of pest genes through to engineered crop pheromone production, provide a set of promising tools that could provide the foundations for commercially viable propositions. However, each approach presents outstanding constraints that require solving. We believe that advances in diverse sectors, spanning from bioprocessing and genetic engineering through to GIS and precision agriculture tools, mean that it is the ideal time to tackle these barriers and we are looking for a Founder in Residence to take this on.

Please refer the Job description for details