Falling Walls Falling Walls Science Summit 2023

Breaking the Wall of Commercializing Cellular Agriculture

Future Fields

Science Start-Ups

PRESENTED BY

Matthew Anderson-Baron

NOMINATED BY

University of Alberta

Tags: Cellular Agriculture, Growth Media, Ag Tech

Future Fields

Canada

We create customized growth media for the cellular agriculture industry at disruptive cost and scale. This industry – whereby products like milk or meat are produced using biological techniques – is relatively young. The prohibitively high cost of conventional growth media remains the greatest hurdle to commercialization for existing companies. We have developed a novel platform for producing bioactive growth factors in large quantities using an insect based expression system. These growth factors support robust cell growth in culture and are key to reducing the cost of growth media. Our platform can also generate species-specific growth factors, allowing us to create fully optimized growth media. Through disruptive pricing, novel approaches, and empathy for our customers and the society in which we live, we design enabling technologies that allow the cellular agriculture industry to thrive. Through this, we will enable the food security of our planet.

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