In midtown Manhattan, the futuristic looking IndieBio lab is creating the food of the future — in hopes of saving the planet.
of IndieBio NY’s open workspace sit four guitars.
Well, technically they’re acoustic and electric hollow-body and solid-body guitars — and a keytar. The instruments aren’t there just to keep the startup founders who come through IndieBio’s six-month program entertained. They also represent a culture of progressive thinking. “What we’re trying to talk about is evolution,” says Stephen Chambers, the managing director of the lab and general partner at SOSV, the venture-capital firm that founded it.
If we live in a world where most people strum an acoustic guitar, IndieBio is investing time and money into early-stage startups that want to go electric, keytar, or further. The new, 25,000-square-foot biotech lab in Manhattan is a proving ground for ideas that seem outlandish today. The startups that have “graduated” from IndieBio’s accelerator program are working on a number of areas, from leather made of shrimp shells to using microscopic organisms to break down toxic chemicals. But many of the innovations revolve around what is perhaps the most pressing area when it comes to the
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