Commercialisation of Scientific Research - The Alternative Path to Academia with Sean Feast

Discussing Sean's journey from early stage researcher through to CEO of a startup company, examining potential pathways and pitfalls for entrepreneurs. Specifically focusing on Deep Tech and hard science projects but also a general pathway for those looking to raise venture capital.

About Sean:

Sean is the CEO and Founder of Precision Chroma, a University of Canterbury Deep Tech startup company. Sean studied both my undergraduate Bachelor of Chemical Engineering and PhD at the university of Canterbury before commercializing my research. And have raised multiple rounds of venture capital and lead a team of 6 engineers and scientists. While leading a commercial team I also still supervise academic projects at the university.

About Precision Chroma

Precision Chroma is a biotech startup company that is looking to simplify the way biological pharmaceuticals are manufactured. The majority of the new drug pipeline are biologically based like mRNA for vaccines and antibodies to treat cancers. Compared to small molecule drugs the manufacturing process for biologics is incredibly more complex and costly. Precision Chroma's under pinning technology "3D printed chromatography columns" combine multiple separations steps in drug manufacturing to streamline the process. This provides significant cost and time savings the speed manufacture and make these drugs more accessible.