Future Fields GTM brain

Future Fields manufactures custom recombinant proteins for life sciences, agricultural and food technology companies using engineered fruit flies.

market profile

text: Drug discovery, agriculture and food technology need recombinant proteins, including targets that conventional expression systems struggle to produce.
text: Custom manufacturing competes with established recombinant protein CROs and internal production systems.

title: Head of protein sciences or R&D
pains:
- Difficult targets fail or yield poorly in existing expression systems
- Insufficient protein delays assays and research
title: Bioprocess development and manufacturing lead
pains:
- Transferring a promising protein into reliable production at scale
- Finding capacity without building expensive bioreactor infrastructure
title: Agricultural biotechnology program director
pains:
- Securing custom proteins for crop protection programs
- Coordinating production as development demand grows

text: Biotech and pharma teams developing difficult-to-express proteins for research and drug discovery, from venture-backed developers to established life sciences firms.
text: Agricultural and food innovation companies with custom protein expression and scale-up requirements.

text: Address targets that conventional expression systems cannot readily make.
text: Use a fruit-fly-based platform to scale expression.
text: Position the service as ongoing manufacturing capacity for challenging proteins.

objection: Will insect-derived protein meet our biological and quality requirements?
response: Review target-specific expression, functional activity, glycosylation and qualification data with the scientific team before committing.
objection: Our existing CRO already produces proteins.
response: Start with a difficult target or scale bottleneck where an alternative expression host could be evaluated against the incumbent.

name: GenScript
website: https://www.genscript.com/recombinant-protein-services.html
why: Offers custom protein expression across several expression systems.
name: Sino Biological
website: https://us.sinobiological.com/services/recombinant-protein-expression-service
why: Provides custom recombinant protein production and manufacturing services.

text: A biotech reports poor yields or failed expression for a priority protein target.
text: An agriculture or diagnostics program needs custom proteins at higher volume for development or scale-up.

model: unknown

sales_led

medium

name: Matt Anderson-Baron
title: Founder
role: Founder
bio: I am a biotech entrepreneur with a background in the biological sciences. I am a co-founder of Future Fields, a Canadian start-up working to enable cellular agriculture commercialization through cost-effective, scalable, and custom growth media. I obtained a PhD in cell biology from the University of Alberta and was one of the first Canadian grant recipients in the field of cellular agriculture.
name: Jalene Anderson-Baron
title: Founder
role: Founder
bio: I obtained my MA from the University of Alberta and have worked in diverse analytical capacities over the past decade, focused on environmental and social causes. I'm a critical thinker with a keen attention to detail and the ability to turn big ideas into reality. I have extensive experience in health and social research, project management, stakeholder engagement, and policy planning, implementation and advocacy.