Lydian
lydianlabs.com
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Alternative Fuels
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Funding and backers
Total raised
$72.8M
4 rounds on record
Latest round
$43.7M
Venture round · Dec 2025 · 9 mo ago
Team
51-200
employees, estimated range
Hiring now
6
+3 posted in 30 days
Backers
3
AP Ventures, Congruent Ventures
The money's age
Fresh money
9 months since the last round · and hiring
Momentum
55/100
hiring for its size, in the news, fresh money
Last sign of life
this month
a posting or a news item
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 |
| Seed | Sep 2023 | $12M | Congruent 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 |
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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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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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
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#241 The Biz Model Making eFuels Pencil Out Joe Rodden (Lydian)
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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
10
Postings analysed
4
Stack modernity
64/100
Languages
Python
SQL
Frameworks & libraries
NumPy
Dagster
Databases
DuckDB
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10 technologies · by team · pay by technology · changes · similar stacks
Salary insights
Compensation ranges based on this company's open jobs
Median
$170k
Typical range
$64k – $210k
Open positions
6
4
Jobs
Senior
75%
Staff
25%
| Level | Jobs | Median | Typical range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Senior | 3 | $170k | $170k – $180k |
| Staff | 1 | $210k | $210k |
Highest paying role
Staff R&D Data Engineer, Hardware Systems
$210k
Normalized to USD per year
People
Branko Zugic
Executive Officer, Director
Joe Rodden
Executive Officer
Joseph Rodden
Executive Officer, Director
Joshua Posamentier
Director
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Growth
Hiring Momentum
49/100
Stable
Open positions
6
3 opened / 1 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
58 days
faster than 27% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~3 hours
Today
Hiring Dynamics
0%
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.
Data Science
22% ▼
Science & Research
22% ▲
Industrial Engineering
22% ▲
DevOps
11% ▼
Operations
11% ▲
Field & Service
11% ▼
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
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6 open roles 8 posted in 90 days 67% engineering 50-200 est. staff $143k Avg Salary
hires for Data Science, Science & Research, Industrial Engineering
Earlier presence
San Francisco, United States
Jobs
$160k – $210k per year • Equity • In office • Full-Time • 10+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • Boston
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$130k – $180k per year • Equity • In office • Full-Time • 5+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • Boston
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