Virginia Emery is an entrepreneur and climate ecosystem builder, based in central WA. As founder and CEO of Beta Hatch, she scaled from concept to 40+ person company, raised $23M in venture capital and built North America’s largest and most scalable sustainable protein platform, using insects as a bioreactor to up-cycle food waste. Beta Hatch negotiated and signed seven figure deals and built a $300M sales pipeline with 200% YoY revenue growth. Virginia and her team held 15 patents and published the first mealworm genome, securing $5M in R&D contracts from DARPA, NSF, USDA and the CDC. Beta Hatch developed a CRISPR toolkit to produce flu antigens in mealworms, using 93% fewer GHG than other proteins. Since closing operations and selling the company’s IP, Virginia has been committed to supporting and advising cleantech and deep tech entrepreneurs across manufacturing, biotech, maritime industries, and renewable energy. She has a PhD in biology from the University of California, Berkeley, and has been recognized as Entrepreneur of the Year and a Visionary Grist 50 Fixer.
Meet CleanTech Alliance, Virginia Emery, Senior Advisor of Stealth Biotech Company & Principal of Artisan Ant
