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Building a successful fermentation company is one thing. Financing a commercial-scale facility is another entirely.
Building a successful fermentation company is one thing. Financing a commercial-scale facility is another entirely.
In this episode of the Protein Production Technology International podcast, Diana Rucinschi of the European Innovation Fund, David Ziskind of Mach Global Advisors, Aakriti Mehta of Channel Capital Advisors, and Spencer White of Unibio joined host Nick Bradley to tackle one of the industry's biggest challenges: bridging the capital gap between pilot success and industrial deployment.
The panel explored why venture capital alone cannot fund the next generation of fermentation infrastructure, what lenders and project financiers need to see before committing capital, and how companies can combine equity, debt, strategic partnerships, offtake agreements, and public-private funding to unlock growth.
From becoming genuinely 'finance-ready' to reducing risk for investors and infrastructure partners, the discussion offered a practical look at how fermentation companies can move beyond promising technology and into commercial-scale manufacturing.
A must-listen for founders, investors, CFOs, and anyone involved in scaling fermentation from demonstration to industrial reality.
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