Season One · 2024 · The Startup Saga

SHR!MP

The audacious leap from stem-cell biotech into the uncharted waters of onshore aquaculture — a rollercoaster of ambition, setbacks and quirky innovation, told behind the scenes of SHRMP.bio.

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GUIDE SHR!MP — The Startup Saga · Season One The audacious leap from stem-cell biotech into the uncharted waters of onshore aquaculture. Ten episodes of ambition, setbacks and quirky innovation. 6 Oct 2025 E01 ShrimpoFarm Reflecting on the last months of Exopharm, Gregor wonders: why not grow cell clusters that are naturally programmed to become… a shrimp? 8 Oct 2025 E02 Just Launch, Mate. Step one is a startup competition — nothing less than the Entrepreneurship World Cup. A deadline is the best motivator, but first the thing needs a name. 10 Oct 2025 E03 Beat Queensland A LaunchVic grant deadline lands alongside the World Cup. Go Big or Go Extinct — and beat Queensland while you’re at it. 12 Oct 2025 E04 (Another) Hopeful Fool The early months surface unknown unknowns. AgTech is a genuine Australian future industry. Aquaculture… could be. 14 Oct 2025 E05 AquaFarm(ing) Doubting the idea’s greatness but not ready to quit: ignore today’s prices, because by the time SHRMP.bio is ready they’ll have changed. 16 Oct 2025 E06 Unsung Heroes To keep the momentum before Buildmate begins, Gregor goes looking for interns — and finds the first of the people who make it real. 18 Oct 2025 E07 Just Build, Mate. (just don’t build a hardware Reactor!) Into Stone & Chalk and Startmate’s Buildmate — a CBD office, good company, and the first real prototype plans. 20 Oct 2025 E08 Finding SHRMPy No lab, no team, no funding — so the final weeks of 2024 go to talking to everyone with even a remote interest in aquaculture. 22 Oct 2025 E09 300 (Prepare for Glory) Buildmate ends, the office is gone, SHRMPy’s back on the street — but without it, there would have been no 2025. 24 Oct 2025 FINALEE10 Cockroaches-by-the-Sea The end-of-2024 review: what worked, what didn’t, and why a world-beating concept still needs to change shape. 26 Oct 2025