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Posted Oct 14, 2026
Aachen
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Salary (estimate)
Broad estimate: €44,000–€58,000/year
VERDANCY
Aachen, Germany (RWTH Aachen) | On-site / Hybrid | Co-Founder / Equity | Deep Tech / AgTech & Biotechnology
Verdancy is a start up in the making from the Schwaneberg Group at the Institute of Biotechnology of RWTH Aachen University. It develops biodegradable additives that make crop-protection products stick to leaves and last longer. Bio-based microgels carry the active substance and release it on demand, while bi-adhesive peptides anchor the microgel to the leaf wax so the coating survives rain — meaning fewer sprays and less pesticide lost to the environment. A second product line uses bifunctional peptides (antimicrobial peptide + anchor) as peptide-based pesticides in their own right, protected by patent EP3261435B1. The entry market is copper fungicide against grapevine downy mildew, where there is no real alternative today, poor rain resistance is a known problem, and the EU is pushing hard to cut copper use.
The opportunity
Built on more than 10 years of university research across six projects (€7m raised, TRL 5), the startup is now being further developed by Susanne Braun (CSO, polymer chemist, carrier systems and formulations) and Atul Kumar (CTO, biotechnologist, protein engineering). Verdancy already has a developed business model, funding secured through May 2027 via the Warp Speed Fund of the Materials Lab Incubator (MerLIn), a successful soybean-rust project and a new €2.4m insect-focused project starting January 2027. What's missing is the business development leadership to found the spin-off company and go after an €80B addressable market (€1.2B in the copper segment alone).
Aachen, Germany (RWTH Aachen) | On-site / Hybrid | Co-Founder / Equity | Deep Tech / AgTech & Biotechnology
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Market access & commercialization
Fundraising & partnerships
Core experience
Especially valuable
Verdancy welcomes co-founder candidates regardless of gender, age, ethnic origin, religion or belief, disability, sexual identity, or any other characteristic. This is a search for the right partner to build the company with, not a conventional hire.
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Source: Statistisches Bundesamt (Destatis), table; dl-de/by-2-0; StarIn's calculation
Source: Statistisches Bundesamt (Destatis), table; dl-de/by-2-0; StarIn's calculation
