Ep.125 – Future Food – A Dairy Industry Without Animals
As the world’s biggest dairy exporter, the New Zealand economy has a lot riding on the industry. But a deep tech company is setting out to change just how we go about creating our dairy. Miruku is a Foodtech company turning plants into mini-factories to produce animal proteins and other molecules, like fats and sugars.
We talk to co-founder Amos Palfreyman about being an ex-dairy exec now using plants instead of cows to create dairy proteins, how to raise global capital for cutting-edge companies based out of New Zealand and the future of food.
