Sawdust to Chemicals; Building a BioChemical Startup w/ Julie Kring (Khepra)

In this episode Silas Mahner (@silasmahner) speaks w/ Julie Kring, (@KringJu) the founder of Khepra to discuss her journey into ClimateTech, how they are making biochemicals for AgriTech use cases out of sawdust, and her advice to founders doing similar things.

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Topics:

• 2:56 Biochemicals & her background

• 8:47 How to make chemicals / biofuels

• 10:27 What they do at Khepra

• 13:57 Supply Chain

• 19:03 From R&D to Commercialization

• 25:14 How to pair R&D teams with commercial applications

• 30:20 Funding experience

• 35:20 Process to build a chemical company

• 41:18 Expectations to achieve profitability - reach a financial event

• 43:30 Biggest challenge in the process of building the co

• 47:08 How to rally your team

• 50:21 What she's looking forward to in the future 

Links:

• Julie on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/julie-k-70425689/

• Khepra Website: https://www.khepra.io/

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