Farmless

Going beyond the limits of photosynthesis.

Humanity has used natural fermentation to turn simple ingredients into complex proteins. It’s what we've been doing for millennia with wine, beer, bread and yoghurt.

Yet most fermentations rely on sugars - which are derived from crops grown on agricultural land. Our platform relies on a non-agricultural energy based feedstock. This allows us to break free from the limiting constraints of photosynthesis.

We are building the spiritual successor to Haber-Bosch. While Haber-Bosch led to cheap synthetic fertilizer which currently feeds half of humanity, we’ve found a way to produce amino acid complete proteins up to ±5000X more land efficient than animals. By rough approximation this could multiply the carrying capacity of the earth by an order of magnitude. The result of our ambition should be visible from space.

About us

Farmless was founded in 2022 by Adnan Oner. Within two years, we validated the full fermentation to protein process at pilot scale. Our whole team is in a single building housing R&D, pilot brewery, food studio, professional kitchen and offices. Our focus is now on scaling the process by order of magnitude steps to commercial scale and getting regulatory approval in our most important markets.

We’re a small, highly technical and deeply curious team with deep food and fermentation expertise with backgrounds from the Vegetarian Butcher and Perfect Day to LanzaTech.

We’re purposefully based within the city ring of Amsterdam. We want to attract the best people from around the world and believe that Amsterdam is a great place to settle (and bike to work). On top of that, the Netherlands is one of the most productive agricultural regions in the world. The Dutch have a mindset to push the boundaries of food production and have the practical expertise to scale up our fermentation platform.

We believe that hardware startups can thrive in Europe, which has the toughest novel foods procedure of the world. When we can make it here, we can make it anywhere. (Also, we want Europe to accelerate.)

We’ve raised +€10 million in total with top tier investors including World Fund, Vorwerk Ventures, Revent and Nucleus and local and European grants.

How we work

We work full-time, on site in Amsterdam. This is a hardware and fermentation company so proximity matters. We believe people learn through osmosis and do their best work close to each other. We move fast because execution determines survival.

You will:

• Take real responsibility early

• Run experiments that fail

• Iterate quickly

• Work multi-disciplinary

• Learn faster than in most environments

We value learning velocity, ownership and output.

Who strives here

People who do well at Farmless are:

• Technically strong and intellectually honest

• Humble, ambitious and resilient

• Comfortable with uncertainty

• Energised by hard, meaningful work

If you want predictability or narrow job descriptions, this isn’t the place. If you want to compress a decade of learning into a few intense years, and help redefine how humanity produces protein, apply.

Why We Work With Interns

Interns aren’t here to fetch coffee. They’re here to challenge us.

The best question assumptions, spot blind spots and build things that surprise everyone, from new harvest techniques to steam sterilisation skids to customer-ready protein bars. This is real work.

For us, internships sharpen the company. We invest deeply, even knowing we cannot hire everyone. The goal is not to hoard talent, but to raise talent density. Many go on to do extraordinary things, carrying a piece of Farmless with them.

If you join as an intern, you’re here to build with us. You’ll make mistakes (expected). You’ll grow faster than you thought possible. And you’ll leave behind work that lasts.