Investor Profile: Deep Science Ventures - Thesis, Cheque Size & How to Apply

Deep Science Ventures is not a conventional venture fund that waits for pitches to arrive. The London-based venture creator starts from a problem — a disease to cure, a farming system to rebuild, a climate constraint to break — and works backwards to the science that could solve it, then recruits founder-type scientists to build a company around that solution. That outcome-first method is its defining difference, and it shapes everything from the sectors it enters to the kind of founder it wants.

Thesis and sectors

Deep Science Ventures works across five sectors on its own site: agriculture, computation, climate, pharma and education. Within agriculture it talks about restorative cultivation, moving farming from extractive to regenerative practices. In computation it aims to unlock computational leverage, and in climate it optimises for degrees of global heating averted. Its pharma work focuses on curative therapeutics built with emerging combinatorial techniques, while a fifth strand develops venture scientists themselves, pioneering career paths for founder-type scientists and inventors.

Stage, fund size and model

The firm operates at the very earliest stage, creating companies rather than backing existing ones, and supports founders from pre-incorporation onwards. A single headline fund size is not publicly disclosed on the firm's homepage, so founders should not quote one. What is public is the model itself: deep expertise and partnerships with industry leaders, a proven methodology for venture creation, and a focus on de-risked ventures backed by world-class investors. Founders are guided through the journey from idea to incorporated company and beyond, rather than simply receiving a cheque.

Notable portfolio and partners

Its created ventures span its five sectors, including Big Picture Bio, founded to identify, design and optimise promising cancer combination therapies, and Lilliput, an agricultural platform aimed at protecting crops from heat stress. Earlier work includes the Food & Agriculture Science Transformer (FAST) programme with the University of Edinburgh and the Roslin Institute, creating Scotland's first venture studio for food and agriculture. Partnerships with leading institutions and industry leaders are central to the model, giving new ventures scientific credibility and commercial routes to market.

Programmes, credits and perks

The firm's flagship route is its venture-creation programme itself, in which scientists join as founders and build a company from a defined outcome, with structured support rather than a generic accelerator curriculum. Its Developing Venture Scientists strand explicitly builds career paths for scientific founders. No standard cloud-credit or perks package is publicly advertised, and founders should treat hands-on venture-building support, industry partnerships and investor introductions as the real benefit, rather than assuming a published credits bundle.

How to apply for funding

There is no conventional open pitch form for an existing startup, because Deep Science Ventures mainly creates companies. The real application route is to contact the firm through its official website, deepscienceventures.com, expressing interest in building with it as a founder, partner or investor, and to watch for its venture-creation calls in its sectors. Scientists with deep domain expertise and a willingness to build from an outcome, rather than pitch a pre-formed company, are the natural fit.