Leaders on a Mission

About Leaders on a Mission

Discussions with leaders with a clear mission of creating a healthier world in today’s most innovative startups across FoodTech, AgTech (Agritech), Synbio, Sustainability, Climate Tech, and Clean Tech. Learn more about precision fermentation, cellular agriculture, alternative proteins, crop protection, biologicals, protein expression systems, carbon capture, plant health, precision agriculture, bioinformatics, human nutrition and what it takes to successfully scale your business in this budding sector.

Publisher

Simon Leich

Category

business

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

15 Sept 2020

Latest episode

29 Sept 2026

Latest episodes

153 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   29 Sept 2026

   Powering Europe’s Energy Transformation

   Europe’s energy system is undergoing one of the biggest transformations in generations. Energy security, the rapid growth of renewables, rising demand from AI and data centres, and the continuing challenge of climate change are fundamentally reshaping how we generate, store and consume power. At the centre of that transformation is energy storage. Today, I’m joined by Philipp Mann, Founder of terralayr, a company building and operating battery storage infrastructure with ambitions to become...

2. 

   17 Sept 2026

   The €140M Bet on the Future of Industrial Heat

   What started as a student experiment is now a €140 million bet on the future of industrial heat. In this episode, Mark Verhagen, Founder and CEO of RIFT, shares the hard lessons behind taking iron fuel from the university lab towards commercial scale—and challenging fossil fuels in one of the toughest industries to decarbonise. Mark explains why sustainability alone won’t win customers, why first movers matter, and how RIFT realised its original business model wouldn’t support the capital n...

3. 

   25 Aug 2026

   From Breakthrough Innovation to Business Scale

   Turning breakthrough science into a successful business requires more than great technology. It takes capital, manufacturing scale, commercial focus and a team capable of turning innovation into real-world impact. In this episode, Thijs Bosch, CEO of The Protein Brewery, shares the realities of leading a fermentation-based food company from startup to scale-up. Following EU novel food approval and a major Series B extension, he discusses raising growth capital, scaling production to meet dem...

Who has been a guest on Leaders on a Mission

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• Massimo Portincaso
• Rogier Pieterse
• William Pelton
• Casper Rasmussen
• Vishnu Jayaprakash

Reach and audience

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YouTube views

80,884

Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025

Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

3 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 55 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

50

Social presence

0

YouTube

76

Engagement

76

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