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#41 Jenny Kan: Investing In The Future Of Bio-manufacturing
I sit down with scientist-turned-investor Jenny Kan, co-founder and general partner at Juniper VC, to talk about why bio-manufacturing is critical to making cleaner chemicals, materials, ingredients, and products—closer to home.
We discuss the shift from making things with petroleum to microbes, why decentralized production is key to national security and resilient supply chains, and the hard-won lessons from the last, “industrial biotech bubble.”
Topics we cover:
What industrial biotech and synthetic biology actually mean
How fermentation enables decentralized manufacturing
Why the…
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