Join as a Founder in Residence in Climate

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 a novel technology that uses microbes to convert methane emissions into valuable products such as protein, biofertilizer, and bioplastics..

You’ll work closely with the DSV team and the current Founder in Residence for this area to co-found and spin-out a new company. 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 - anticipating offices and lab space based on the East Coast of the United States.

The Opportunity

Atmospheric methane is responsible for >30% of the warming we are experiencing today, and levels are rising rapidly. Our company will turn the tide of methane emissions, decreasing peak temperatures in the process. We do this by targeting methane streams originating from methanogenic bacteria and deriving value from them, instead of letting them escape to ever-increasingly accelerate climate change.

Our Approach

We are targeting the “long tail” of methane emissions from biogas streams that are too small for conventional uses, such as renewable natural gas, but still have enough energy from which to derive substantial value. We are developing a small scale, modular, and robust bioreactor that can be readily deployed in multiple settings. The bioreactor itself will contain a microbial consortium that converts methane from biogas flows into high-value products. This will enable us to target methane emissions that currently have no economically viable solution, and to build a scalable and successful enterprise.