RHEAPLANT

AGRICULTURE REINVENTED

Rheaplant is dedicated to making technological solutions for sustainable food production mainstream.

By 2040, we aim to reduce emissions from food production by 0.05 Gigatons or provide essential nutrition to 82 million people.

TEAM

Sowmya Purushothaman

CEO

Imperial College London (PhD), Cambridge University (Post Doc)

Authored a patent in Food technology

10+ publications as lead author

Lead the R and D team in raising $1M at Climax Foods

Helped a Non-Profit to secure $150K via Nudge foundation for their mission to make STEM education accessible

Worked across multiple Food techs at IPO (Beyond Meat), Growth (Impossible Foods) and seed stages (Climax Foods)

Derek Scholin

CTO

CSU, Botany

Led bioprocess scaling at California Cultured 

Grew the team from 7 to 68 at Phytelligence

25+ yrs of plant cell culture experience

Part of Diana Plant sciences team during its acquisition in 2014 at $1.8B

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