Daisy Lab is a New Zealand-based company that produces lab-grown dairy proteins.

Daisy Lab

New Zealand is the largest exporter of dairy proteins. These exports deliver nutrition to those who need it and create prosperity for our farmers and our communities. Yet it also comes at a cost to our environment, polluting our waterways and generating substantial greenhouse gas emissions.

What if there was another way? We believe there is. 

Using precision fermentation we can produce identical dairy proteins without the harm to our land, our rivers or our animals. Daisy Lab is on a mission to pioneer precision fermentation technology for dairy protein production.

Join our Chief Science Officer, Nicole (Nikki) Freed, PhD who will be speaking at the Alternative Proteins Conference 2024 in Melbourne, organised by Food Frontier.

This is promising to be a global event with an amazing line up of speakers!

💡 The new RethinkX report is out, and it has some very interesting insights.

💲  “The cost [of Precision Fermentation] has been falling precipitously for the past 40 years.” - below is an image from the report to illustrate this.

📉 “The disruption of food and agriculture may start with dairy, but it certainly won’t end there. Companies around the world are already using PF to produce food and cosmetics ingredients, food processing enzymes, sweeteners, pigments, pharmaceuticals and more.”

Join me today to chat about the early stages of Daisy Lab’s journey with the team from Icehouse Ventures!

🗓️ When: Thursday 25th of July, 1-2pm.
📍 Where: Virtual. Make sure to RSVP here: https://lnkd.in/gx9Wxe8i

😊 Thank you Fiona Rotherham and NBR - National Business Review for covering our mahi!

👩🔬 "Synthetic biology is taking off globally and New Zealand has the opportunity to become world leader in niche areas once our GM laws become less restrictive".

🌏 New Zealand is already leading the world in niche protein purification (i.e. in dairy), using our IP and Know-How in membrane filtration and industrial ion-exchange chromatography. Purification is often up to 70% of the costs (both OPEX and CAPEX). This gives us a unique advantage to leap-frog other countries in industrial recombinant protein production - particularly for extra-cellularly expressed proteins.

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Great turnout at Fieldays®  
Many deep and insightful conversations with NZ farmers on the future of traditional dairy and what role precision fermentation might play. We feel privileged to be able to have those conversations in a constructive and positive manner.

😥 You run your fermenters 24/7 - from dusk to dawn
⏰ You get up at 5am and rush to work to make sure there were no overnight spills
🌿 You care after living things, providing for their needs
📈 You come on weekends to sample for protein production to draw that perfect expression curve


👩🌾 Our team at Daisy Lab feels that yeast farming is... well... farming.

This is why we are excited to have been selected as finalists at the Fieldays Innovation Award. Come and see us at the largest New Zealand 𝐟𝐚𝐫𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐠 exhibition this year between 12-15th of June.

#fieldaysNZ #fieldays2024 #innovation

Our co-founders 🌱 Irina Miller and Emily McIsaac had an amazing trip to Future Food Asia conference in Singapore, also visiting ScaleUp Bio and Nurasa's Food-Tech Innovation Centre alongside Toby Lane and Nutrition from Water™ (NXW)!

⛔  Since starting Daisy Lab, I've heard hundreds of discouragements like "you can't", "you will never pull it off", "you won't be allowed to", "you're at the wrong place", "others have tried and failed" and even more extreme personalised offenses like "who do you think you are?", "you don't have the skills or resources" and "you are naive and delusional". 

📢 When we started, those voices were prevalent and loud. People would seek me out, schedule a meeting, only to lecture me on how incompetent I was to bring precision fermentation to New Zealand and all the obstacles I'd face. I am sure some of them meant well and were genuinely trying to spare me from the pain of failure. Others, however, may have been guarding their own agendas at times. 

🙇♀️ At first I would listen, trying to reconcile this overwhelmingly negative external feedback with my own analysis of reality and internal logic. Then, after failing to reconcile, I became immune to the negative comments. 

🔥 Another person just called you incapable? Great! Put them in the "hater" box and let their energy fuel your perseverance. Hit another obstacle? Great! If it was easy, everyone would be doing it! So you buckle up and keep going. 

✅ Eventually, you find people that support you! You value every word of encouragement, you cling to every piece of rational advice and you implement it ruthlessly. Again and again. 

❤️ And with that, I would like to thank from the bottom of my heart EVERYONE who supported us on our brave and slightly crazy journey - be that with a kind word, a practical advice or a positive action. You know who you are!

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Tomorrow tune into the episode of Sunday at 7.30pm on TVNZ1 or TVNZ+ to hear about Daisy Lab and other cutting-edge technologies.  What a privilege to be featured in this iconic New Zealand programme.

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