Unlike standard venture models, we are building a fast-scaling commercial vehicle. Evoducta's immediate roadmap involves finalizing the next-generation refiller device, optimizing bubble-resistant polymers, and securing seed funding to launch market-ready production and initiate pilot sales.

A commercially-driven CEO is sought to co-found this revolutionary project and lead its market penetration.

Your Key Responsibilities Will Be:

●       Commercial Execution & Sales Drive: Drive market adoption of the Evoducta platform. Establish early pilot sales, target high-growth sectors (such as probiotics, bioethanol, and bio-based materials), and scale the consumable subscription/recurring revenue model internationally.

●       Network & Offtake Alignment: Actively engage with B2B customers, understanding the technical and financial strain-development requirements of corporate R&D teams, biotech SMEs, and educational laboratories.

●       Funding & Venture Capital: Lead fundraising efforts, successfully attracting venture capital, angel investors, and non-dilutive innovation subsidies to secure the upcoming round and subsequent growth stages. Preparing the venture to become an attractive candidate for acquisition by a strategic partner or investor.

●       Leadership & Team Building: Bridge the gap between world-class academic innovation and commercial execution. Partner closely with the scientific founders to build strong, motivated teams across hardware process engineering, product development, and international business development.

●       Operations & Supply Chain Management: Oversee the scaling of low-cost 3D printing/manufacturing processes, coordinate intellectual property strategy, and monitor competitive landscapes in lab automation and evolution technologies.

Requirements

●       Entrepreneurship: You can turn lab-bench technology into real-world market impact by spotting high-value B2B opportunities and driving recurring revenue loops.

●       Driven and Action-Oriented: You are an execution-focused leader who sets clear goals to move the technology quickly from prototype validation (TRL 7-8) to widespread commercial laboratory adoption.

●       Biotech/Lab Sector Expertise: You bring a profound understanding of the life sciences, biotechnology, or laboratory automation sectors. Having a technical or commercial background directly interacting with cell culture, microbiology, or bacterial strain development labs is highly favored.

●       Collaborative Technical Mindset: You do not need to be the primary bench scientist, but you must be deeply enthusiastic about biotechnology. You can comfortably collaborate with research and engineering teams, translating customer needs into smart hardware and consumables design changes.

●       B2B Business Model Scaling: You have a proven track record of bringing hardware, medical devices, or lab instrumentation to market, managing early-stage pilot validation programs, and scaling sales funnels internationally.

Your Work Experience Ideally Includes Success in:

●       Startup/Corporate Scaling: Translating early-stage scientific innovations into commercially viable products. Experience within venture-backed or growth-stage biotech environments is highly valued.

●       Financial Acumen: Strategic financial insight paired with fundraising capabilities. You can comfortably map out unit economics for consumables and manage early investor relations.

●       Commercial Execution: Proven ability to introduce disruptive, labor-saving technologies into traditional research and corporate lab environments.

Other Requirements:

●       English language proficiency. Additional European languages are a plus.

●       Currently based in the Netherlands or willing to relocate to work alongside our ecosystem and university partners.

●       Available at least 3 days a week in the initial start-up phase, although full-time availability is preferred.

Benefits

Founding a start-up is the dream of many, but the chance of success via traditional routes is disappointingly low.

We dramatically increase the chances of success by:

1. Picking the most promising, high-impact deep-tech innovations.
   
2. Matching each project with the right commercially-minded entrepreneur.
   
3. Putting infrastructure and professional services in place to ensure the best chance of success.
   

The unique benefit of this model is the complete suite of professional services provided. You will be surrounded by BigCircle Ventures experts in the fields of capital raising, legal frameworks, corporate governance, patent expertise, and HR support. You will be mentored one-to-one by a senior partner and join a collaborative community of CEOs within our portfolio.

You should bring with you the mindset of an entrepreneurial co-founder, and as such, do not hesitate to apply even if you do not match all listed requirements. You will be a partner with us, not an employee. Your wins and setbacks are shared. This shared equity model underpins the access you will have to our elite networks and professional infrastructure.