Hosted by Claire Smith, Beyond Impact
OpenStage Theatre
11.30 am - 12.30 pm
11.30 am - 12.30 pm
This is your opportunity to hear directly from the founders and CEO's of three, very exciting, growth companies in the sustainable sector. Multus, Grazer and BIG YARD™ each have very different businesses - with a single unifying aim - to deliver positive impact as well as financial return to investors. You can read more about each of the companies below. The companies will be on Stand No S10, alongside Beyond Impact, where you can meet and speak to the founders and CEO's.
Grazer
We’re Grazer, the dating and friend-finding app for vegans and vegetarians. Connecting the consciously likeminded through meatless matches.
Lewis Foster
CEO, Grazer
Lewis Foster is the founder and CEO of Grazer, the dating and networking app for vegans and vegetarians. As a long-term vegan and passionate environmentalist, Lewis has made it his mission to unite and accelerate the plant-based movement across the world. Lewis led Grazer’s efforts in raising £500,000 in pre-seed from both private investors and an equity crowdfunding campaign. Lewis is a graduate of University Arts London and København Designkole, he brings his experience as an award winning designer and film maker into shaping the vision of Grazer as a voice for the meat-free community.
BIG YARD™
Juicy, Meaty and Tree-Grown.
BIG YARD™ is the original British foodservice pioneer of traditional meat formats made from the world’s lowest farming emission canopy-crop, Jackfruit.
Healthy, less-processed, low GI and high in fibre, BIG YARD™ makes wholefoods-based versions of Chicken, Pork, Beef, Lamb and Seafood. Want that new, hot n’ juicy meat nostalgic experience?
Plant it on your menu!
Jennifer Pardoe
Managing Director
Jennifer Pardoe founded BIG YARD™, British producers of award winning tree-grown meats.
BIG YARD™ supply big name B2B sectors globally, with a meaty range of Pork, Beef, Chicken, Lamb and Seafood style products. From a foundation of health-friendly whole-foods and less processing, to crazy-low carbon emissions, BIG YARD™ brings that hot n’ juicy sizzle to customer menus, growing appetites everywhere. Plant it in your mouth!
Multus
Multus is reinventing growth media for cell culture in cultivated meat and life science. From growth factors to serum-free supplements, we partner with companies looking for media breakthroughs to help accelerate their progress and de-risk their supply chain. We use a groundbreaking combination of data science, high-throughput automation and ISO-certified manufacturing to develop ingredients and formulations that reduce costs, eliminate animal-sourced components and enable scale-up. Our Mission is to make cultivated meat the sustainable and affordable choice, for everyone.
Cai Linton
CEO, Multus
Cai Linton has an MEng in Molecular Bioengineering from Imperial College London and
combines technical knowledge in tissue engineering & data science with management
experience. His motivation to create a sustainable future using biotechnology led him to co-
found Multus to shorten routes to market and lower entry barriers in the cultivated meat
industry. Multus creates the key ingredients for the affordable scale-up of cellular
agriculture. The company's growth media formulations and ingredients are the building
blocks of cellular agriculture and enable the affordable at-scale production of real animal
products, including meat, dairy, leather, and more, using cells instead of animals.
