
After helping Amyris move engineered biology toward commercial products, the chemist founded Cataya around a stubborn lesson: a molecule matters only when the factory can make it reliably.

The protein engineer behind Shiru is compressing years of ingredient discovery into months - and turning nature's overlooked molecules into products manufacturers can actually use.

A former strategy consultant saw hunger on one trip and edible waste on the next. Now his Seoul company is building the cold chains, factories and demand that can make food byproducts useful again.