Venture Science Doctorate: venture-creation PhD program (funded scholarship)

Core responsibilities:

• Familiarize with a given industry and map the landscape to identify areas of opportunity for high-impact venture creation during Year 1
• Focus on invention and further developing initial hypotheses, working within leading research groups to prove technology against original hypothesis and validate through techno-economic analysis during Year 2
• Build further on research from previous years to develop scalable technology capable of product market fit, then work with experienced venture partners to build complementary team and investment case before venture incorporation and spin-out during Year 3
• Lead the new venture as a co-founder after incorporation, with continuous support from DSV

This role creates positive change by solving global challenges in health, climate, agriculture and computation through science-based venture creation, leading to new companies that make huge positive impact on society and the planet.

Required qualifications:

• Impact-driven with demonstrated interest in investigating or solving large-scale societal problems in climate, agriculture, health or computation
• Entrepreneurial with examples of past experience related to innovation/new technology development/startups
• Masters degree related to science/engineering (BSc and equivalent also accepted, PhD also accepted)
• Determined enough to spend 1 week during application process finding optimal approach to societal problem using DSV's scoping ideation methodology

Deep Science Ventures College covers tuition and all other expenses related to programme curriculum and research activities. Each student receives a monthly stipend of £2,800 (living costs + health insurance subsidy). Upon spin-out, you/your co-founder(s) will have majority ownership in the venture. You'll join a global community of science entrepreneurs, work with entrepreneurial professors and research labs, and access top-tier investors/funders backing deeptech ventures.

Deep Science Ventures is creating a future in which both humans and the planet can thrive by using a unique venture creation process to create, invest in, and spin-out science companies, empowering entrepreneurial scientists to combine scientific expertise and business models to synthesize high-impact ventures.