Who we are

For too long, businesses have relied on chemical industrialization processes and petrochemicals — depleting our planet’s limited resources. That’s why we are committed to driving the regenerative revolution to manufacture at scale in collaboration with nature.

Led by a hand-picked team of biologists, technologists and entrepreneurs with rebel hearts, Insempra is here to create a new school of thought and collective action. The time to restore the balance between people and the planet is now. We don’t wait for change. We do what needs to be done to grow a better future.

Our mission

Unleash nature to grow matter with atomic precision — thereby enabling businesses to create a world of naturally superior products for all.

“Scaling to the power of biology is scaling sustainably. This is where business and biotechnology must meet. At Insempra we are achieving this by gathering the right people and technology around the right mission”

Jens Klein, Co-Founder & CEO

Core Team

Our founding team is united by a wealth of experience from the world’s leading academic institutions, management consultancies and companies including AMSilk, Clariant, Evonik, Fraunhofer and Lonza.

Dejan Milo

Senior HR Manager

Ed van der Ent

Head of Process Design and Manufacturing

Jens Klein

CEO

Johannes Sonnenschein

Business Development Lead

JP Pfander

Head of Corporate Development

Kristin Nessbach

Head of Product

Lin Römer

COO

Luisa Gronenberg

VP Technology Integration & Strain Development

Marius Schneider

Head of Legal

Philipp Böhm

Head of Finance and Controlling

Ruchita Chawla

Head of Project Management

Guiding principles

Our five guiding principles are the foundation for everything we do and what we aspire to acheive.

01

We embrace convergence

When differences converge, something emerges that’s more than the sum of its parts. With that in mind, we embrace convergence from a holistic perspective. Convergence between diverse people; convergence between technologies; convergence between business models; and more.

By embracing convergence, we unite technologies and people to create commercially-successful, superior products — and support a regenerative revolution.
02

We are translational

In biology, translation is the concept that turns information (RNA) into function (protein). Similarly, we turn our intentions into tangible actions.

We turn science into products, and products into better choices. We transform lab protocols into industrial processes, and turn unsustainable value chains into regenerative value nets. Throughout it all, we speak the language of scientists, businesses, biologists, engineers and nature to communicate what we do.
03

We live and breathe integrity

On our ambitious path, there are few shortcuts. To succeed, we rely on each other, and our network of scientists, partners and other revolutionaries. Those relationships need trust to function — which we build by speaking truthfully and acting accordingly. And we never shy away from challenging our own motivations, as well as those of our collaborators.
04

We are generative

We grow products with nature instead of taking them from nature, and focus on best-in-class research and development to industrially scale biological products. Our growth is generative and our products inherently sustainable and more fit-for-purpose than anything else in the world.

The result? An immense opportunity to generate a better future for the planet.
05

We do what needs to be done

From the way we run our business to the companies we choose to partner with, all of our decisions drive revolutionary change. We aren’t interested in incremental progress: we think big, and act like it, too. We generate the new to outperform the outdated. We do what matters.