About
Our company has started as a merge of business skills, tuns of enthusiasm and a wish to stop killing animals. When all conditions came together, Mewery was born. The company was founded by Roman Lauš with help of his partner Kristýna Kvardová and many enthusiastic people around them.
Roman has been an entrepreneur since he was in his twenties. He co-founded a still-operating IT business in localization under the Global DTP and Global Elearning brands back in 2003. These efforts gave him a lot of freedom to engage in many businesses as well as non-profit projects.
Later on, Roman, as a co-founder, sold an innovative real-estate business company called Home Institute to one of the biggest real-estate developers in the country. He also invested in a very promising American startup LTEOIL, which has pioneered a non-equilibrium process for cracking and reforming the hydrocarbon chain, which has enormous potential to help with climate change.
One of his biggest adventures was undoubtedly the Future Port Prague conference – an international visionary futuristic event bringing the latest technologies under one roof. Roman was a member of the founding team and also became a Program Director. He brought hundreds of speakers to Prague. Being responsible for the content of the whole event, he had to study different exponential technologies. That’s where he came across the emerging field of alternative proteins.
Seeing where the whole industry was already in 2018, making personal connections with some of the alternative protein startups founders, and especially thanks to his current partner Kristýna Kvardová who happens to be a clinical biologist, he decided that it was about time to not only organize events about future trends and technologies but also to take ACTION. That’s where the idea for starting Mewery came about.
After that, we spent quite some time mapping the market and interviewing cultured-meat companies and major scientists in the field. We put together a scientific team, started cooperation with the Czech Academy of Sciences and with MendelU, built our own labs in Brno, appointed an advisory board, and assembled a network of mentors from the “alt protein” scene in Berlin, USA, and Singapore. We have also joined scientific and business communities that are dealing with alternative proteins all over the world.
Our focus is to develop cultivated pork meat products using our own hybrid culture medium with microalgae extracts. We are also currently working on cell line optimization, our own growth factors, and on developing the bioprocesses needed for scale up. This is something that many scientists, engineers and chemists from all the world are also doing. Although cultivated meat is not that far from coming from lab to fork, it is necessary to involve more companies and scientists, and to spread public awareness and cooperate towards this virtuous goal.
As Roman says:
“Thanks to Mewery, I have finally found my passion, as it is completely aligned with my inner values. I have also been teaching Buddhist philosophy and personal development methods around the world for many years. Thus my motivation is to create a beneficial business which saves many animals and even our planet.”
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We’re all ears for your questions regarding the future of meat. Just let us know at hello@mewery.io
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This is what you want to invest in – a better healthy future for our planet. Reach out to us at investors@mewery.io and let’s see if it’s a match.
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