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Deep Science Ventures
Deep Science Ventures is a venture creation organization based in London, focusing on combining scientific knowledge with entrepreneurial talent to address global challenges in sectors such as agriculture, climate, computation, and pharmaceuticals.
Overview
What Deep Science Ventures does
What Deep Science Ventures is
Deep Science Ventures is a venture creation organization based in London, focusing on combining scientific knowledge with entrepreneurial talent to address global challenges in sectors such as agriculture, climate, computation, and pharmaceuticals.
How it participates in the startup ecosystem
The current public profile supports funder and program host and publisher capabilities. Each capability below is shown separately so organization identity and role-specific information do not get conflated.
Operational profile
Organization status and context
Organization status describes the entity itself. Funding and program availability appear within the relevant capability profile.
- Operational status
- Active
- Organization type
- Venture Studio
- Founded
- Founded in 2016
- Approximate age
- About 10 years
- Structured capabilities
- Funder · Program host · Publisher
- Last reviewed
- March 16, 2026
What Venture studio means
A venture studio is an organization that systematically creates new startups by generating or sourcing ideas, validating them, building early products, recruiting founders or operators, providing shared resources, and retaining meaningful equity in the companies it helps create.
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Capability profile
Deep Science Ventures as a funder
Investment thesis
Venture creator combining scientific knowledge and founder-scientists to build high-impact ventures addressing existential global challenges. Hybrid VC + venture studio model.
Focus narrative
Deep tech: climate, agriculture, computation, pharmaceuticals. First-principles systems approach to identify bottlenecks. Partners with Coca Cola, Abbvie, Anglo American, ARIA, Cancer Research UK.
Value beyond capital
Venture creation methodology with rigorous de-risking. Strong team with exited founders. Industry partnership model for co-creation.
Terms and economics
- Typical check
- $840,000–$11,500,000
- Sweet spot
- $2,850,000
Focus and fit
- Stages
- Pre-seed · Seed · Series A · Series B
- Sectors
- Biotech & Life SciencesClimate & SustainabilityFood & AgricultureFrontier & Deep TechPharma Tech
- Regions
- United KingdomUnited States
Availability
- Currently deploying
- Yes
Portfolio and track record
- Investments in the last 12 months
- 1
- Last recorded investment
- November 28, 2025
Portfolio context
56+ investments. Recent: Modjoule (Nov 2025), Kondor (Jul 2025), Dunia (Oct 2024). Portfolio collectively worth 500M GBP. Hybrid: builds companies in-house.
Capability profile
Deep Science Ventures as a program host
Program thesis
Deep Science Ventures aims to leverage scientific knowledge to develop innovative solutions in various sectors, including agriculture, computation, climate, pharma, and education.
Focus narrative
DSV concentrates on five primary sectors: Agriculture, aiming to shift practices towards regeneration; Computation, unlocking computational potential; Climate, optimizing ventures for reducing global heating; Pharma, innovating disease cures through combinatorial techniques; and Education, creating career paths for scientific founders.
Value and support
Founders at Deep Science Ventures benefit from access to scientific expertise, mentorship from experienced directors, and support in developing their ventures to address critical global challenges.
Availability
- Application state
- Not published
Focus and fit
- Stages
- Pre-seed · Seed · Seed+
- Regions
- Global · Uk
Alumni and track record
Alumni context
Notable alumni companies include Nafura, which focuses on industrial wastewater treatment; Modjoule, an intelligent power platform for logistics; Ironic Metals, innovating in metal production decarbonization; and Kindling Bio, developing immunotherapy for childhood cancer.
Programs hosted by Deep Science Ventures
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Capability profile
Deep Science Ventures as a publisher
Editorial focus
Deep Science Ventures (DSV) is a venture creator founded in 2016, based in London, UK. The organization merges scientific expertise with founder-type scientists to develop high-impact ventures that address significant global challenges across various sectors.
Audience value
DSV aims to create ventures that not only generate economic value but also contribute positively to society by addressing critical issues in agriculture, computation, climate, pharma, and education.
Format and cadence
- Content formats
- blog and research-report
Availability
- Guest pitch state
- Not currently accepting
Audience and focus
- Audience
- Founders
- Sectors
- Climate & Sustainability
- Regions
- United Kingdom
Flagship work and coverage
Flagship properties
DSV has launched 56 companies, including notable ventures like HyperCIM, Antiverse, Rhizocore, and Mission Zero Technologies, which focus on lossless computing, rapid antibody design, tree planting success, and CO2 removal technologies respectively.
Common questions
What to know about Deep Science Ventures
Upseed classifies Deep Science Ventures under the Venture Studio organization type. Its current public profile includes funder, program host, and publisher capabilities.
Source and update disclosure
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Source basis
Public organization and program material, official websites, and structured Upseed records.
Last reviewed
March 16, 2026
Known limits
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