Animal farming is among the leading cause of global warming, water pollution, deforestation, antibiotic resistance, and infectious diseases such as swine flu. Cultivated meat can be a safe and sustainable alternative that could reduce greenhouse gas emissions by more than 92 % and land use by more than 90 % compared to conventional beef. Cellcraft aims to make cultivated meat a commercial reality by creating an end-to-end production system to empower food producers to make their own delicious, sustainable cultivated meats locally.
Yash Mishra, CEO, Co-Founder and Director of Cellcraft Ltd aspires to be a capable and astute CEO, prepared to lead the company into a new stage of growth: from small prototypes to robust, market-ready industrial-scale systems. He aims to make the most of the Shott Scale Up Accelerator’s leadership coaching and business mentoring to further develop his communication and decision-making skills needed to face new challenges as they scale.
Yash also plans to use Culture+, the Shott Scale Up Accelerator’s equality, diversity, and inclusion platform, to help maintain the right, inclusive culture and systems to empower Cellcraft’s employees and build a lasting, impactful company.
Over the next 12 months, Cellcraft will continue to optimise key technologies, such as cell lines, bioreactors, and media using a Quality-By Design approach powered by their AI-driven bioelectronic platform for high-throughput Multi-Objective Optimisation. At the same time, they are raising Series-A funds to scale up to pilot-scale and carry out studies at greater than 100 litres. This will demonstrate the technologies at commercially-relevant scales, allowing Cellcraft to finalise our commercial agreements and get regulatory approval
As Cellcraft set up new processes and structures for scaling up and prepare for commercial launch, Yash will benefit from the Shott Scale Up Accelerator’s comprehensive Growth Training programme. He wants to learn more about areas such as good governance, growing Advisory Boards and customer acquisition to help with business development and securing capital.
