Arpit Dhupar
CEO & Founder
Engineer, Industrialist, Category builder. 2nd-time founder, ex-CTO Chakr Innovation. Forbes 30U30, UN Young Champion of Earth.
Advanced Material Biomanufacturing
Petroleum built the modern world.Biology will rebuild it.
We engineer mycelium into industrial-grade materials - protective packaging, thermal insulation and specialty forms - on a machinized, reproducible production line. Same surface, better physics, P&L upside.
Material spec, today
- Shock absorption3× vs EPS
- Thermal retention+20%
- Breakage in transit<2%
- Net P&L gain2.6×
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01 - Applications
A drop-in for everywhere thermocol exists today.
E-commerce, electronics, fragile-goods logistics, diagnostics & pharma cold-chain, glassware, luxury, defence - wherever breakage, freight cost or end-of-life liability matters.
02 - Material
We don’t grow mushrooms. We engineer a better material.
Dharaksha is an advanced material biomanufacturing company. We feed any lignocellulosic agri-residue into a closed-loop production line where mycelial hyphae weave a 3D mesh through the substrate, binding it into precisely-shaped, load-bearing forms with a velvety, water-resistant surface.
The breakthrough is not the biology. The breakthrough is machinizing the biology - getting reproducibility, surface finish and unit economics that replace thermocol on cost, on performance, and on freight. At scale.
Zero feedstock constraintVelvety mycelial finishProduction-ready at scale
The material
Custom-moulded mycelium block, velvety finish.
03 - Transformation
From agri-residue to a finished material, in one continuous process.
STAGE 01 / 05
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- 01Loose agri-residueAny lignocellulosic waste. Zero feedstock constraint, year-round availability.
- 02Hyphae spreading
- 03Binding into a 3D mesh
- 04Solid block forms
- 05Velvety finished surface
Now - Live spec
A pile of paddy-straw is the raw material.
Lignocellulosic agri-residue, otherwise burned or discarded, is reclaimed as our primary feedstock.
04 - The biomanufacturing edge
Most mycelium is artisanal. Ours is industrial.
A closed-loop, automated production line - built and re-built over the last 20 months. Each step is instrumented, each batch is reproducible, each SKU has tolerances. The result is a production-grade alternative to thermocol, engineered for industrial supply.
The last 20 months
How we spent the last 20 months getting ready for scale.
850×
Bioreactor scale
13×
Throughput
60%
Manpower reduction
1/3
Energy consumption
<10%
Rejection rate
down from 55%
Plant overview
27,000 sq ft. Expansion ready. Contact to partner.
Production line, live
- Feedstock prep13× throughputAny lignocellulosic agri-residue - zero supply constraint, year-round availability.
- BCAC system<10% rejectionProprietary, first-of-its-kind machines that industrialise and automate the entire production process - from sterilization to liquid-culture inoculation.
- Automated growth & bagging60% manpower↓Automated bagging and growth lines collapse the incubation cycle from 60 days to 45.
- Finishing1/3 energySurface curing to a velvety, water-resistant, anti-static mycelial coat. Custom-mould any geometry.
Same SKU. Every shift.
05 - The team
Built by industrialists, scientists and operators.
Engineering meets biotechnology meets operations. Six leaders, one stack - from strain to shipment.
Sanjay Kushwaha
Lead, Engineering
Machine builder. Automation architect. Translates biology into a reproducible production line.
Priya Baruah
Lead, Biotechnology
Engineerable fungal growth. Strain & substrate optimization for predictable mechanical properties.
Nadeem Ahmad
Lead, Operations
IIM Kashipur. 8+ years across operations, supply chain, QA, throughput discipline.
CA Drishty Arora
Financial Controller
Owns COGS, unit economics and financial diligence at production scale.
Dhruv Kapur
Lead, Business
18+ years in enterprise deals and business development across industrial categories.
06 - Get in touch
Let’s build the next materials leader together.
Whether you ship 100 boxes a day or 100,000, we can model the switch. Tell us who you are and we’ll come back inside one business day.
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Procurement, packaging or supply-chain.