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