EF Alumni

Christopher Reynolds

CTO, Better Dairy

Founded:

Cofounder:

Jevan Nagarajah

Interests / background:

Biotechnology

Location:

London

Cohort:

Christopher Reynolds has experience across academia, research and consulting. He completed a bioinformatics PhD and a synthetic biology postdoctorate at Imperial College. He has led projects to optimise protein expression in cells, directly relevant to his company Better Dairy’s technology stack, and has published nine papers.

Company:

Better Dairy

Building the future of food, starting with animal-free dairy.

Better Dairy

How Better Dairy, co-founded at EF, are growing cheese in a lab

20 September, 2022

How Better Dairy are making milk without cows

23 March, 2021

Companies in the Press

Better Dairy, founded through EF London, picks up £1.6M seed funding to produce animal-free dairy

17 December, 2020

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