Early Momentum

Behind the scenes of building a biotech company: It’s been about 6 weeks since we’ve started shipping out our chemically defined FBS replacement every Monday.

We ship, I refresh my tracking app incessantly throughout the week, and we learn new things about new countries' import processes every single week. On the upside, I came into this accustomed to Australian import (one of the more complicated bars), so things have been smooth sailing more often than not.

The real world humbles us but also enthuses us. User guides get improved to prevent mistakes during onboarding. We publish new data on our website showing the limits and capabilities of the product. Folks have success with new cell lines and we add them to our tally.

In the background, we pull together application notes for fully chemically defined primary cell culture and operationally easy adherence in serum-free systems. We fall into a regular manufacturing and QC cadence; it’s boring and predicable, just the way I like my manufacturing processes.

In a few months, we’ll know even more about product performance and edge cases. We’ll start sending product to distributors globally, to make FRS more accessible to folks outside Australia. We’ll scale up the size of each manufactured batch.

And I guess that’s how a “real company” is born. Only took a few years!