The role

Farmless is building its first commercial first-of-a-kind brewery in 2027 and you will play a pivotal role in financing it. For this role we’re looking for a finance & ops generalist who’s just as comfortable negotiating venture debt as they are jumping into the weeds on investor reporting, grant tracking, or whatever problem that needs solving.

You’ll work directly with our CEO + ops and take full ownership of debt financing our first plant, and play a key role in helping Farmless scale with discipline, speed, and creativity.

Responsibilities

• Get us funded efficiently. Structure and negotiate venture debt, project finance, loans and more

• Keep the engine running. Own day-to-day financial ops including closings, reporting, budgeting, cash flow, and external finance relationships.

• Build for scale. Create and maintain financial models that help us make better, faster decisions.

• Win grants. Help identify, apply for, and manage grants across local, national, and EU levels.

• Do stuff that doesn’t scale. Jump into whatever else is needed to keep the business moving; we’re a startup after all.
  

Requirements

• Financial Acumen. Bring at least 2 years of experience in venture debt & project finance or a related field to the table.

• Startup spirit. We're all about taking charge and getting things done. We don’t focus on credentials but do want to see proven “know how” and results. If you're full of energy and ready for anything, you've found the right place!

• Process geek. If you love streamlining, simplifying, and making things run like a well-oiled machine, this role is made for you.

• Mission driven. Our goal of making food production dramatically more sustainable and ethical truly excites you.

• Bonus Points! Previous experience (and hard won mistakes/lessons) in startup finance, grants, non-dilutive funding and startup growth will definitely help.

Rewards

• A flat, fast, and curious team working on one of the most exciting challenges in food

• A high-talent, low-ego culture where ideas matter more than titles

• Daily plant-based lunch, snacks, fruits, drinks

• Fun off sites & team drinks 

• In house gym & regular team sport activities

• Room to grow into whatever version of the role you make yours

What we’re building

We’re going beyond the limiting constraints of photosynthesis.

We use 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 fermentation platform relies on an easily storable and shippable renewable energy based feedstock. This allows us to break free from the limiting constraints of photosynthesis.

What we are building is the spiritual successor to the Haber-Bosch process. While Haber-Bosch led to cheap synthetic fertilizer which currently feeds half of humanity, we have 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

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

We’re flat and interdisciplinary by design. We value autonomy, speed, and ambition. You’ll have the freedom to build, and the responsibility to do it well.

We’re based within the city ring of Amsterdam – for a reason. 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 hardware startups can thrive in Europe. If we can get approval here, we can do it anywhere (and we want Europe to accelerate).

We’ve raised €9M from world-class investors including World Fund, Vorwerk Ventures, Revent, and Nucleus Capital, and European and national grants.