Nature’s Fynd is a Chicago-based food company creating versatile alternative proteins to nourish the world’s growing population while nurturing the planet. Born out of research conducted for NASA on microbes in Yellowstone National Park, the company’s breakthrough technology produces Fy™. Fy is a new-to-the-world, nutritional fungi protein that only uses a fraction of the resources required by traditional agriculture. We use Fy to make delicious, nutritious, and sustainable meat and dairy alternatives.
Nature’s Fynd is a groundbreaking food tech company born out of NASA-supported research on extremophiles in the geothermal pools of Yellowstone National Park. Our novel fermentation technology produces a sustainable source of complete protein using only a fraction of the resources required by traditional agriculture. As the challenge to feed the world’s expanding population grows, our mission is to create amazing foods and materials that provide sustainable choices and nurture the planet.
We’re looking for passionate, driven, and ambitious people to join our fast-growing team.
Our investors include premier venture capital firms (Softbank’s Vision Fund, Blackstone Strategic Partners, 1955 Capital, Generation Investment Management led by Al Gore, and Breakthrough Energy Ventures led by Bill Gates) as well as two of the world’s largest Food & Ag companies (Danone and ADM). With our latest $350M in Series C financing, we are continuing in our ambitious growth trajectory to revolutionize the field of sustainability and have a global impact.
Job Summary:
We are looking for passionate, driven, and curious people to join our fast-growing team. The chemistry intern will be focused on helping the biomaterials team move our understanding of our process forward while contributing to the fundamental science of interfacial materials. This role will be based out of Chicago with the opportunity to transition to full time at the end of the internship.