Co-Founder in Residence (Commercial), Reinventing Crop Nutrition & Weed Control

Deep Science Ventures is seeking a Commercial Co-Founder to co-create a venture to revolutionise weed control through crop nutrient delivery. You will partner with the technical founder to take this from pre-incorporation / pre-seed to Series A and beyond - turning relationships with major agri-input companies into commercial agreements, solving the route to farmer adoption, and raising the capital to scale.  You will build the commercial infrastructure that turns a breakthrough technology into a durable business.

This is a ground-floor co-founder role. The founding team will collectively hold a majority equity stake in the company, with pre-seed (incorporation) investment and ongoing support from Deep Science Ventures and the Grantham Foundation. The exact leadership remit will be shaped around the strengths of the founding team, with potential for this role to evolve into the CEO or another C-suite position.

The role is full-time and initially remote-based, starting as soon as possible, with venture incorporation and spin-out targeted for early Q2 2027.

The Venture

A combination of legislation and weed resistance is giving farmers an ever-diminishing herbicide tool kit.  Legacy chemical herbicides have been shown to be toxic to human health and the environment.  Meanwhile, farmers