Our Values

Our founders’ stories

Aranza

Aranza joined DSV as a Co-Founder. Although her original venture was found to have intractable problems, she subsequently joined Ryan, who was also at DSV as a Founding Analyst, to found Parallel Carbon. Despite operating fully remotely, and also becoming a mother in the same month she incorporated, they recently placed Top 60 in the X-Prize for Carbon Removal.
DSV's culture is unique in many ways. Founders' work-life balance has a special importance within the structure. This allowed me to fulfil my 2 greatest dreams within the same month: founding my own company and becoming a mum. Other places could consider motherhood as a liability or a problem, but DSV embraces the possibilities it could really bring to the table.

Gael

Gael joined DSV as a Founding Analyst, with no specific ideas, IP or team members. He left having built both a direct air capture company and a green hydrogen company, which in less than 12 months, together had secured £700k in funding and 5 additional team members, and received multiple offers of investment, all before he’d left DSV. These companies have now secured £20m in funding.
The task, to develop optimal technological solutions to some of the world’s biggest problems. The ideal outcome, to found multiple companies in the climate sector. An outcome that seemed almost impossible

Murat

Murat joined as founder in our founding cohort. You could call him a "founding founder". The way he built Antiverse served as an example around which we designed some of DSV's core methodologies. He started with an extremely ambitious outcome, and conducted expert interviews, ignoring their specific opinions about feasibility but focusing ruthlessly on uncovering the true constraints that underlaid those opinions. Today, Antiverse's technology represents the cutting edge in in silico antibody design.
The DSV team is there for the long run, and that is the type of support biotech and deep tech companies need. The growing DSV network has been a significant driving force behind our success. I can wholeheartedly recommend it to all entrepreneurs.

Available opportunities

Venture Science Doctorate: a 3-year, fully-funded, venture-first PhD program

Venture Science Doctorate

Technical Co-Founder in Residence (Process Engineer), Methane Abatement

Climate

Technical Co-Founder in Residence (Microbiology), Methane Abatement

Climate

Head of Origination, Mark1

Climate

Advisor/Prospective Co-Founder for Renewable Energy Venture (Open Application)

Climate

Co-Founder in Residence (CEO), Direct Air Mineralisation (Open Application)

Climate

Founder in Residence, Towards Zero Toxicity (Open Application)

Climate

Founder in Residence, Zero-emissions Industrial Plastics (Open Application)

Climate

Founder in Residence, Avoid emissions from end-of-life plastic(Open Application)

Climate

Co-Founder, next generation therapeutics for Parkinson's (Open Application)

Pharmaceuticals

Co-Founder in Residence (Commercial/go-to-market), Industrial Water Recycling

Climate

Commercial Advisor / Co-founder in Green Steel Venture (Open Application)

Climate

Co-Founder in Residence (Commercial/CEO), Secure and Scalable CO2 Storage

Climate

Co-Founder in Residence - Enabling the Capture of COâ‚‚ from the Air

Climate

Co-Founder in Residence (CTO), Direct Air Mineralisation (Open Application)

Climate

Associate, Education (Venture Science Doctorate)

Venture Science Doctorate

Co-Founder In Residence, Methane Removal from Air (Open Application)

Climate

Manager, Procurement and Offtake Origination - DevCo-as-a-Service

Climate

Manager, Engineering Delivery Operations - DevCo-as-a-Service

Climate

Technical Manager, Process Engineering - DevCo-as-a-Service

Climate

Project Manager, DevCo-as-a-Service

Climate