As part of his Nuffield Farming Scholarship, David has been to over 50 black soldier fly business’s across 4 different continents. He has spoken to investors, scientists, technology providers and government officials and, quite simply, wanted to find out the best way to commercially farm black soldier flies.
On this journey, David has experienced the good, the bad and the ugly of the industry and can competently articulate how your idea can maximise the likelihood of success. He has seen how start-ups have successfully pivoted, how a value hypothesis can be formulated and the building blocks of a robust and scalable business model.
He is now understanding how this can be applied to a local context, having experienced a multitude of business models around the world.
David understands the agri-food chain through 7 years of experience as a commercial buyer at the UK’s largest supermarket, Tesco. Whilst he also has experience at a VC backed start-up in London, learning the do’s and don'ts of scaling an ambitious business.
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For future BSF farmers
So, you're looking to start your black soldier fly farming business?
Speak to our black soldier fly expert on what you need and how exactly you can get started with your exciting new venture.
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For current BSF farmers
Many people have great ideas, but may be encountering growing pains. Knowing when to persevere with your idea and how build a scalable business plan can help overcome this. Or, do you need to pivot to another idea? Planning and brainstorming is something that we can help you with.
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For investors
If you are looking to invest in BSF, we can help you to identify the types of business that suit your requirements. Then as the insect experts in your investment opportunity, we can offer third party guidance on what is realistic.
Better insect businesses start here.
Case studies
Flamingo Produce
Flamingo were currently composting their vegetable waste, but wanted to explore processing this through BSF. This is how we contributed to their project:
Drew up physical site plan.
Calculated total investment required, including capital and operating costs.
Calculate overall benefits vs composting
Tambuzi were already producing, utilizing their own green waste to process into BSF for their pigs, but production was challenging. This was our contribution to their project:
Problem diagnosis through on-site observation and consultation.
An improvement plan was devised.
Tambuzi delivered the step changes to positive results.