
Podcasts

Launched in 2025, the Smart Protein Pod brings you candid conversations with changemakers across the alternative protein ecosystem. Brought to you by the GFIdeas India community, this podcast caters to students, entrepreneurs, policymakers, and industry experts, offering accessible insights and inspiring journeys from the frontlines of food innovation.

The Smart Protein Pod brings you candid conversations with changemakers across the alternative protein ecosystem. Brought to you by the GFIdeas India community, this podcast caters to students, entrepreneurs, policymakers, and industry experts, offering accessible insights and inspiring journeys from the frontlines of food innovation.
The second episode of The Smart Protein Pod features Subramani Ramachandrappa—a.k.a. Subbu—a serial biotech entrepreneur and one of the most experienced precision fermentation forerunners in India. Drawing on over two decades of leadership across enzyme production, biopharma, and smart protein manufacturing (including his role in founding Richcore, now Laurus Bio), Subbu joins GFI India’s Fathima Beevi for a grounded and insightful conversation about scaling precision fermentation in India and the Global South.
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By the year 2050, we will have 10 billion people on our planet–a sixth of whom will be in India. If we want to feed all 10 billion of us in a sustainable, healthy, and just way, we need to reimagine how we source our food. Running for two seasons until 2021, this podcast has all those answers and much more.