- SHR!MP University Project Olympics - SHR!MP S02E08 Entirely coincidentally (or call it fate), just as the ink on SHRMP.edu is dried, a former colleague at Swinburne asks whether I might have a good topic for some health sciences students to work on to learn how to apply research methods to real-world questions. Funny enough, I do.. my first year of my SHRMP “sabbatical” had filled my notebook… 07 December 2025
- SHR!MP SHRMP.edu – Spicing Up Student Lives - SHR!MP S02E07 With the pivot decided, SHRMP.bio's board approves (re)capitalising the company sufficiently to build the prototype and continue with the development for 2025 - subject to finding a home to build it at within Q1/2025 (= 6 remaining weeks). So we get going. From a reasonably short target list, I try to get in touch with any course coordinator who I… 05 December 2025
- SHR!MP Victoria the Innovation State - SHR!MP S02E06 Is this what’s embossed on our licence plates? No. It’s also not: Victoria the Technology State (or even the Biotech State.). And after living here for nearly 20 years, maybe I should have taken some pointers – if not from my own hard experience in technology innovation, then maybe at least from what my home state keeps on telling the… 03 December 2025
- SHR!MP Evoke(n) – Part 3 – Outback Salami - SHR!MP S02E05 This post's only purpose is to alert visitors to Queensland about some great food products! These were featured during the “conference dinner”, that had been turned into a 'Festival of Food' market showcasing local products that included camel cheese (Summer Land Camels), crocodile spring rolls (no idea), Moreton Bay bugs (it’s in the name), Barramundi (plenty of sources), and kangaroo… 01 December 2025
- SHR!MP Evoke(n) – Part 2 - Farming Is (Getting Too) Hard, Mate (but still better than Aerospace?) - SHR!MP S02E04 Language became even more direct, reflecting on “reckless” new regulations driven by urban environmentalists that are enacted without consultation or consideration for the people they actually affect, and an emerging urban/country divide that some likened to the early developments that led to a similar division in the US. Many (if not all) were very concerned about climate change and any… 30 November 2025
- SHR!MP Evoke(n) – Part 1 – F$!@ing (Farming) Wisdom, straight up. - SHR!MP S0203 Oh SHRMPy!, that EvokeAg 2025 conference was much bigger than I expected – therefore there will be a triple feature! 4am start, on-time touch down for the opening, survived the official opening addresses, and things got interesting. A good number of the panels and especially the smaller workshops turned out to be really insightful and sometimes quite entertaining. This had… 29 November 2025
- SHR!MP Waiting for Godot - Down Under Edition - SHR!MP S02E01 January in Australia is like August in France. Motivation to get anything done is at an all-time low – 6 weeks of school holidays are not helping. There’s not much one can do about it, but to embrace it. February, however, it’s back into action! IGP – that is an acronym everyone working in technology in Australia recognises immediately –… 27 November 2025
- SHR!MP 2025 (Oh Captain, my Captain) - SHR!MP S02E01 The last weeks of 2024 were marked by an (for me) Herculean effort to turn some of the really interesting and good content (my opinion) into more bite-sized bits and get some activity onto the website and into SHRMPy’s LinkedIn presence. Absolutely no marketing strategy, beyond “let’s put it out there, so at least it could be found”. Not overly… 25 November 2025
- SHR!MP Teaser: Oh Captain! My Captain! - S02E01 Teaser Reviewing the website and LinkedIn metrics at the end of the year was a rather disheartening exercise. Admittedly, we had not invested much in a professional marketing campaign, nor employed any marketing specialist, but instead I had spent a fair amount of time testing diverse messages and content, sometimes even half-heartedly (as I had “more important” things to do). Overall,… 28 October 2025
- SHR!MP Cockroaches-by-the-Sea - SHR!MP S01E10 (Season Finale) In our end-of-2024 review, we looked at what worked and what didn't. The SHRMP.bio story worked in some ways: Everyone easily understood it (the straightforward company name also helped); it inspired audiences based on the sustainability angle alone. Support could be recruited from all over the world, and volunteers had spent some time on it – for free! But the… 26 October 2025
- SHR!MP 300 (Prepare for Glory) - SHR!MP S01E09 With the year 2024 drawing to an end, Startmate ended its Buildmate pilot, and SHRMP.bio lost its city office again – SHRMPy was back on the street. However, without Buildmate, SHRMP.bio probably wouldn't have existed in 2025. Having this opportunity and the team that came together at least once a week helped us immensely to get through the next stage. 24 October 2025
- SHR!MP Finding SHRMPy - SHR!MP S01E08 For the rest of 2024, in the absence of lab, team, and funding, I decided to focus on finding at least one of the three. And so the final weeks of 2024 were dedicated to speaking with as many people as possible, everyone who might have at least a remote interest in aquaculture, sustainable seafood, future nutrition, cool technology, AgTech,… 22 October 2025
- SHR!MP Just Build, Mate. (just don't build a hardware Reactor!) - SHR!MP S01E07 For the second half of the year, SHRMP and I moved into Stone&Chalk, enjoying the laurels of pitching by having a nice Melbourne CBD-based office and some really good company as part of Startmate's Buildmate programme. Some members of the Internship team also stayed on a bit longer as we worked on building out the prototype plans and the development… 20 October 2025
- SHR!MP Unsung Heroes - SHR!MP S01E06 To avoid losing the initial momentum SHRMP had until Buildmate started, I was looking for a way to sustain it. Through my early involvement with NAFI, I met our first potential intern, whom I was eager to provide with a worthwhile opportunity. From previous experience, I knew that hosting one intern typically required about the same overhead as hosting several,… 18 October 2025
- SHR!MP AquaFarm(ing) - SHR!MP S01E05 Doubting my initial assumptions and the overall greatness of my idea, it was not the time to give up (yet). I chose to ignore today's market prices and concerns about cheap imports because they will likely change by the time SHRMP.bio is ready. If cheap imports are still around then, they will be produced using SHRMP.bio's technology. Not knowing about… 16 October 2025
- SHR!MP (Another) Hopeful Fool - SHR!MP S01E04 The initial months revealed some interesting challenges. As I ventured into a (for me) new field, I also uncovered some unexpected “unknown unknowns” or simply incorrect assumptions. AgTech is a genuine Australian future industry and growth opportunity (yes, it is)… but aquaculture is not (although it could be). Australians love seafood. Australia has a longer coastline than the US. It… 14 October 2025
- SHR!MP Beat Queensland - SHR!MP S01E03 Alongside the Entrepreneurship World Cup, the deadline for a LaunchVic Grant application arrived. Well, Go Big or Go Extinct was my motto for the World Cup, and the pitch served as the basis for the grant application. Being based in Victoria and working to launch one of the coolest projects this state has seen in this sector (probably ever), which… 12 October 2025
- SHR!MP Just Launch, Mate. - SHR!MP S01E02 As a first step, I applied to a startup competition - and nothing less than the Entrepreneurship World Cup would do. A deadline to pitch is my best motivator to get started and work on putting an idea on paper. A real project/company name was also required. Days went by, pondering and wasting endless hours on playing through options of… 10 October 2025
- SHR!MP ShrimpoFarm - SHR!MP S01E01 The final months of my Exopharm journey were a time of reflection. While thinking about our stem-cell production process and some of my exploratory work looking into potentially applying our core Exo technologies to the lab-grown meat.. I mean.. cellular agriculture manufacturing process, I was wondering why one would not "simply" grow cell clusters that are naturally programmed to become… 08 October 2025
- SHR!MP SHR!MP – The Startup Saga - Season One (2024) [Episode Guide] In the gripping first season of SHR!MP, readers follow Gregor’s audacious leap from stem cell biotech into the uncharted waters of onshore aquaculture. It’s a rollercoaster of ambition, setbacks, and quirky innovation, told across ten episodes of grit and humour. After reflecting on his Exopharm journey, Gregor dreams up SHRMP.bio: a next-gen seafood manufacturing concept inspired by cell clusters and… 06 October 2025