Ryan Graves: Humble Bee Bio, Plant vs Microbial Biofactories, and Rapid Distributed R&D Materially Better

Ryan Graves is the CTO of Humble Bee Bio, a NZ-based early stage startup developing novel biomaterials to replace plastics. Ryan is on a mission and it was a lot of fun to dive into Humble Bee Bio’s approach and challenges as they develop their proof of concept material.
Note: I am late publishing this episode (was meant to be last week) because I was struck down with COVID, and am still recovering.

Outline
(03:50) How synthetic biology rapidly improved in the last 20 years
(09:34) How distributed research teams helps Humble Bee Bio move faster
(16:07) Properties of Humble Bee Bio's polymer
(19:26) Why the Australian solitary masked bee makes this unusual material
(28:06) Humble Bee Bio's beachhead market
(33:21) Using plants instead of microbes as biofactories
(41:13) Contrasting drop-in materials with better materials
(43:10) Vision for Humble Bee Bio

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EPISODE LINKS
Humble Bee Bio: https://www.humblebee.co.nz/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/humblebeebio?lang=en
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/humble-bee-ltd/

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