Our Values

UN-COMPROMIS-ING

Holy grails only. We build the ideal, the paragon, the global maxima: we do not compromise, we suspend disbelief, impossible is often just a phase.

PERMIT MADNESS

Suspend disbelief. It does not need to be an idea yet. An interesting problem is better than an interesting solution. Stretch the limits of plausibility. Steal relentlessly from other fields, from other sectors, from other people, from other centuries. Be vivid, audacious, convergent.

IMPACT

We abandon means in pursuit of outcomes: never the other way around. We care about end goals, about how quickly it can grow, about how much more it can change.

EXTREME OWNERSHIP

We should do better. Diagnosis is tolerated, excuses are not. We compete with ourselves. We are not swimming in the sea of fate. The majority of factors fall within an internal locus of control.

OPENNESS

Culture of honest appraisal, failure acknowledged outright, receive criticism thoughtfully and creatively. Animated disagreement is sometimes how people come to understand complex subjects.

SENSE OF URGENCY

Get going. Commit to the deadline, we can get it done in time. Proactive. Nature abhors a dependency, don't paralyze: parallelize.

EMPATHY

The personal is professional: entrepreneurship is all-consuming. Caring and empathetic. We do not outsource wellbeing to HR: it is everyone’s responsibility.

PERSUASION

We bring people with us. Magnetise. Create critical mass. Get to the emotional core. Find the leverage, the credibility.

DEPTH OF INSIGHT

We pride ourselves on our ability to see through accepted belief to root causes, to think from first principles, to learn when we do not know the answer. We tackle complexity and uncertainty head-on. We apply every lense available to us. We believe it can be quantified, assessed, judged.

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

R&D Scientist Lead - Lilliput Technologies

Agriculture

Head of Commercialization, Mark1

Climate

Head of Origination, Mark1

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Co-Founder, Curative Therapies for Inflammatory Disease

Pharmaceuticals

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

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

Climate

Co-Founder in Residence (Engineering/CTO), Secure and Scalable CO2 Storage

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Co-founder in Residence, Systems Architect for Water Treatment Technologies

Agriculture

Advisory Panel: Reforming Agro-Industrial Nitrogen-based Fertilizers

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Advisory Panel: Venture Creation in Agriculture

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Founder in Residence, Bioprocessing to Transform Monoculture Systems

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Founder in Residence, Towards Zero Toxicity (Open Application)

Climate

Founder in Residence, Zero-Emissions Plastic Packaging

Climate

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

Climate

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

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Co-Founder in Residence, Immune-Related Therapeutics for Paediatric Cancer

Pharmaceuticals

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

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Co-Founder in Residence, Avoid water scarcity in industry (Open Application)

Climate

Co-Founder in Residence, Zero Emission Steel (Open Application)

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

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Co-Founder in Residence, Enabling CO2 capture processes (Open Application)

Climate

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

Climate

Founder in Residence, Next Generation Therapeutics for Parkinson's

Pharmaceuticals

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

Climate

Co-Founder in Residence, Avert Methane Emissions from Biomass (Open Application)

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

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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

Associate, New Venture Creation in Curative Therapeutics (Open Application)

Pharmaceuticals

Co-Founder in Residence, Decarbonising Industrial Process Heat

Climate

Associate, New Venture Creation in Agriculture (Open Application)

Agriculture

Co-Founder in Residence, Regenerative Soil & Land Restoration (Open Application)

Agriculture

Associate, New Venture Creation in Climate (Open Application)

Climate