Species, unite, unite. Unite. Species. One day I was leaving the animal shelter and I would always go and have lunch at this restaurant

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I can I can picture the place and I just remember thinking I spent all day you know helping these

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This conversation is with Stephanie Downs.

Stephanie is a CEO and This conversation is with Stephanie Downs.

Stephanie is a CEO and co-founder of Uncaged Innovations.

Uncaged is a biomaterials company that combines nature and technology to reimagine leather.

After two years in stealth mode, they have launched a non-animal bio-leather

that could transform the fashion and automotive industries.

Stephanie's career has been one of transformation.

She is a co-founder of the Material Innovation Initiative

and the largest plant-based meat company in India. Hi Staff. Hi, how are you today? I am fantastic. Thank you for having me in your home. I want to talk about uncaged, which is mind-blowing.

So why don't you just say what it is, and then we're going to work our way back up to it.

Uncaged Innovations is a bio leather company.

So we are making leather out of various plant ingredients

for the fashion, automotive, and home goods industries.

And you just launched?

Yes, we just launched this month.

We've been in stealth mode for about two years

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