Our Story

Evergreen Biotech was founded by Robert Farmer and Mandy Isaac, former colleagues working together inside an early-stage bioprocessing facility, where emerging science met the daily realities of operating complex infrastructure. They experienced firsthand how rigid systems and legacy equipment shaped — and often constrained — the path from discovery to scale.

Robert was immersed in the day-to-day realities of engineering and operations, guiding process development, scale-up, and troubleshooting. Mandy led finance in an environment where each infrastructure decision directly impacted cost, risk, and runway.

As the science progressed, a hard truth became impossible to ignore - infrastructure, not biology, was the bottleneck.

Large, stainless-steel vessels — once the gold standard — became liabilities. They were rigid, expensive, and unforgiving. Cleaning cycles consumed vast amounts of water and chemicals. Utilities ran constantly. Contamination risk lingered in every weld and valve, threatening months of work. Scaling meant committing millions in capital long before certainty existed. These weren’t operational failures; they were structural flaws baked into how traditional bioprocessing systems were designed.

From opposite sides of the same problem, Robert and Mandy reached the same conclusion - the industry didn’t just need better processes, it needed better systems — systems that could adapt as science evolved, systems that reduced waste instead of amplifying it, systems that simplified operations rather than demanding entire teams just to keep them running, and systems that respected financial constraints without compromising performance.

So, they set out to build the company they wished had existed when they were at wit’s end in the lab and the boardroom.

Born from firsthand operational pain and financial constraint, Evergreen Biotech designs simplified, scalable bioprocessing systems grounded in real-world experience - infrastructure that removes friction instead of creating it, infrastructure that extends runway, lowers risk, and lets teams focus on what actually matters - advancing the science.

This isn’t theory. It’s the result of having lived with the consequences of traditional design and deciding there had to be a better way.