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2022 year in review
Goals, progress made and learnings. Plus what next for 2023.
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November 2022
Ryan Graves: Humble Bee Bio, Plant vs Microbial Biofactories, and Rapid Distributed R&D
Listen now | Ryan Graves is the CTO of Humble Bee Bio, a NZ-based early stage startup developing novel biomaterials to replace plastics. We talk about…
Antonio Castro Neto: Graphene Godfather on the Types of Graphene, Graphene-Kevlar Helmets, and the Future of 2D Materials
Listen now (57 mins) | Antonio Castro Neto, dubbed the “godfather of graphene”, is a professor at the National University of Singapore. There, he…
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Melik Demirel: Squid-inspired Protein Pioneer on Self-healing and Programmable Materials
Listen now (47 mins) | Melik Demirel is the co-founder of Tandem Repeat, a startup working on squid-inspired bioengineered materials and he's a…
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Max Mundt: A Revolution of Matter, Insempra’s Biomaterials, and Self-improving Bio-iPhones
Listen now (42 mins) | Max Mundt is the VP of Business Development and employee #1 at Insempra and a part-time venture partner for Amino Collective. We…
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Tsung Xu
October 2022
Welcome to the Materially Better podcast
A series of conversations about high performance materials and the ways they are being integrated into novel products.
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Venture partner
I will be collaborating with two different venture funds as a venture partner, Collaborative Fund and Climate Capital Bio.
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September 2022
Biomanufactured materials are coming
And they hint at a future with vastly better products
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August 2022
A new materials paradigm is overdue
The case for this and why it matters.
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May 2022
Amyris: from antimalarial to hypergrowth DTC
Amyris may be the first synbio company to have cracked product market fit by selling direct to consumers.
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Built With Bio Review
Short review of the Built with Biology aka SynBioBeta conference in Oakland, April 2022.
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March 2022
A guide to the energy transition
How we’ve gotten here, how it’s going and what may be next.
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