Business Operations, Farmless
Carbon negative fermentation platform
Posted today
Carbon negative fermentation platform
1-20 employees
Posted today
1-20 employees
Company mission
To free food production from animals and agricultural land.
Role
Who you are
- Some scar tissue. You have more than three years of experience in a startup, VC, or another demanding environment. You’ve seen plans break, priorities change, and good ideas fail. You thrive on variety, can handle uncertainty and understand urgency
- Own the problem. You don’t wait for a perfectly defined scope. If something is broken, you find a solution proactively
- Think in systems. Repetitive work bothers you. You naturally simplify processes, automate workflows, and build tools that help a small team do more
- This is a mission, not just a job. The possibility of producing dramatically more sustainable and ethical food genuinely excites you
- Bonus Points! Hard-won experience in startup finance, grants, non-dilutive funding, or company-building (plus mistakes that taught you how to do it better). Extra bonus points for speaking Dutch (sorry): it’s useful for local operations and some external communication. English remains our default office language
What the job involves
- We’re looking for a high-agency generalist who finds bottlenecks and owns problems that do not fit neatly into anyone else’s responsibilities.
- Your work will span finance, reporting, grants, internal systems, and the unexpected challenges that come with building a deep-tech company
- Keep everything running. Own day-to-day business ops across finance, reporting, communications, and dozens of small projects
- Build for scale. Turn growing pains into internal systems that help us make decisions faster
- Win non-dilutive funding. Help identify, write, and manage grants and consortia
- Do stuff that doesn’t scale. Moving fast often comes from doing unglamorous things properly. You’ll jump into whatever matters most, whether or not it was in the original job description
Our take
The climate crisis has heightened the urgency to develop alternative food sources, aiming to protect our planet and efficiently sustain the ever-growing global population. With a new approach to protein production, Farmless seeks to positively change the way we produce food for a better future.
The Dutch startup has developed the means to make a 'carbon negative' protein that requires between 10 and 25 times less agricultural land compared to conventional plant-based protein. Farmless makes its protein using a fermentation platform that utilises a liquid feedstock from renewable energy sources instead of sugar.
Founder Adnan Oner believes Farmless has the potential to end factory farming, revitalising our planet's ecosystem, and mitigating gigatons of carbon emissions. Although this is an ambitious claim, the company's substantial support from a number of investors so early on has propelled Farmless out of stealth mode and into the public eye, and highlights the potential it has to bring significant positive change to the agricultural industry.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Dec 2024
$1.2m
GRANT
Dec 2023
$5.7m
SEED
Total funding: $8.3m
Company benefits
- Free healthy vegan lunches, snacks and drinks
- Company provides you with a new macbook
Company HQ
Jodenbuurt, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Leadership
Adnan Oner
(Founder)Previously worked as the Head of Product at Tapfiliate and at 30MHz as a Hardware and Software Engineer.
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