Lydian
Alternative Fuels
$72.8Mtotal raised · 5 rounds on record
3open roles
$43.7Mlatest round · Venture round · Dec 2025 · 10 mo ago
3backers · AP Ventures, Congruent Ventures
Overview
Lydian Modular, turnkey plants that redefine the economics of synthetic fuels. Home Technology Company Careers Press Lydian Contact A new, purpose-built approach to low-cost sustainable fuels.
Funding and backers
Total raised
$72.8M
5 rounds on record
Latest round
$43.7M
Venture round · Dec 2025 · 10 mo ago
Team
51-200
employees, estimated range
Hiring now
3
+1 posted in 30 days
Grants
$274k
1 grant · CORDIS
Backers
3
AP Ventures, Congruent Ventures
The money's age
Fresh money
10 months since the last round · and hiring
Momentum
48/100
hiring for its size, in the news, fresh money
Last sign of life
1 mo ago
a posting or a news item
The story so fareach stage dated by its source: the company's releases, the press, registers, filings
Dec 22, 2025
Raised a round Venture round $43.7M · SEC Form D
Nov 15, 2023
Won a grant $274k · CORDIS
Sep 6, 2023
Raised a round Seed $12M · led by Congruent Ventures · PRNewswire
May 9, 2022
Raised a round Convertible Note $2M · SEC Form D
2021
Founded
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Web presence
top 6%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
Funding rounds
| Round | Date | Amount | Investors | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Venture round | Dec 2025 | $43.7M | — | SEC Form D |
| Grant | Nov 2023 | $274k | — | CORDIS |
| Seed | Sep 2023 | $12M | Congruent Ventures lead | PRNewswire |
| Venture round | Aug 2023 | $15M | — | SEC Form D |
| Convertible Note | May 2022 | $2M | — | SEC Form D |
Registers and programsofficial lists and records that name the company
| Legal entity | Lydian Labs, Inc. | SEC Form D |
Founders and leadersfrom filings, registers and the company's site
Branko ZugicExecutive Officer, DirectorSEC Form D
Joe RoddenExecutive OfficerSEC Form D
Joseph RoddenExecutive Officer, DirectorSEC Form D
Backed byfrom the funds' portfolios and accelerator catalogs
AP Ventures 
Congruent Ventures 
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Jobs
≈ $74k – $175k per year (Estimated) · In office · Contractor · Bachelor's Degree · Boston
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Python
SQL
PostgreSQL
AI/ML
NumPy
Time Series
DevOps
Git
Docker
Linux
Chips/EDA
Statistical Process Control
JMP
IoT
OPC UA
Management
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Salary insights
Compensation ranges based on this company's open jobs
Median
$122k
Typical range
$64k – $180k
Open positions
2
1
Jobs
Senior
100%
| Level | Jobs | Median | Typical range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Senior | 1 | $180k | $180k |
Highest paying role
Senior Software Engineer
$180k
Normalized to USD per year
Growth
Hiring Momentum
78/100
Scaling fast
Open positions
3
2 opened / 3 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
61 days
faster than 20% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~5 hours
Today
Hiring Dynamics
+100%
Hiring Focus
The percentage next to each role is its share of the company's job openings over the last 90 days; the arrow shows the shift versus the previous period.
Industrial Engineering
43% ▲
Science & Research
29% ▼
QA
14% ▲
Operations
14% ▼
Activity Timeline
Added SolidWorks to stack
Oct 2026
Added PID Control to stack
Oct 2026
Added Statistical Process Control to stack
Oct 2026
Added LIMS to stack
Oct 2026
Added JMP to stack
Oct 2026
Added STAR-CCM+ to stack
Oct 2026
Added OpenFOAM to stack
Oct 2026
Added Design of Experiments to stack
Oct 2026
Added ANSYS to stack
Oct 2026
Added Rest API to stack
Oct 2026
Added PostgreSQL to stack
Oct 2026
Added OPC UA to stack
Oct 2026
People
Branko Zugic
Executive Officer, Director
Joe Rodden
Executive Officer
Joseph Rodden
Executive Officer, Director
Joshua Posamentier
Director
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Tech stack
Technologies named in job postings at Lydian over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
23
Postings analysed
6
Stack modernity
64/100
Languages
Python
SQL
Frameworks & libraries
NumPy
Dagster
Databases
PostgreSQL
DuckDB
Snowflake
Cloud & platforms
Linux
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News
How to make synthetic jet fuel that people will actually buy
Lydian is a synthetic fuels company on a mission to decarbonize the aviation industry and strengthen energy resilience. Here, we're sharing our thesis on why this is worth doing and how we'll make it cost-effective.
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Report
Green aviation fuel startup Lydian lands new HQ in Charlestown - The Boston Globe
The venture-backed firm recently left the Engine incubator in Cambridge to open a 25,000-square-foot office and research lab in Hood Park.
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Lydian Opens 25,000 SF R&D Center of Excellence at Hood Park
/PRNewswire/ -- Lydian, a Massachusetts-based company pioneering a novel, low-cost approach to produce synthetic fuels, announced today they
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IAG selects record 29 start-ups for accelerator programme
Hailing from 11 countries, these innovative companies will collaborate with IAG and six of its operating companies on solutions capable of scaling across the aviation industry.
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#241 The Biz Model Making eFuels Pencil Out Joe Rodden (Lydian)
How Will SAF/eFuels do under Trump, How Lydian Went from Tech Discovery to Pilot in 3 years, and More.
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Startup Lydian Reduces Cost Of E-Fuel SAF Aviation Week
Because of limitations on biomass feedstock availability, power-to-liquid SAF is widely seen as the best longer-term path to decarbonizing aviation.
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PtL firm Lydian successfully demonstrates SAF tech
Lydian announced successful demonstration of its technology to produce SAF using captured CO2, water and renewable electricity.
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Lydian Announces Successful Demonstration of Novel Sustainable Aviation Fuel Technology
/PRNewswire/ -- Lydian, the electric fuels company, today announced the successful pilot demonstration of its technology for producing sustainable aviation...
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Exclusive: Lydian can make aviation fuel wherever there's CO2 and electricity
Replacing inexpensive fossil fuels is a tall hurdle, but Lydian thinks it has cracked the problem.
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'E-fuels' are catching on as a way to decarbonize air travel
Massachusetts-based Lydian is the latest startup to raise funds to produce power-to-liquids fuels, which could emit less CO2 overall than fossil jet fuel.
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Offices
Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
2
Hiring now
1
Countries
1
Busiest office
Boston
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Salem
United States
HQ
Boston
United States
Plant / site
4 open roles 6 posted in 90 days 75% engineering 50-200 est. staff $125k Avg Salary
hires for Backend, QA, Science & Research
Earlier presence
San Francisco, United States