In this episode of Intrigued to Innovate, host Dr Jovan Tan invites two of his former students back to the same studio where their journey began — not for a project consultation or to submit a report, but as world-class startup founders.

Armaan Dhanda and Samyak Baid first walked into Dr Tan's CDE2301 Value Creation in Innovation course as wide-eyed freshmen. Samyak later served as his teaching assistant. Together, they pursued their CDE3301 Ideas to Proof-of-Concept project under Dr Tan and Dr Elliot Law, building a prototype to convert food waste into an alternative protein for pet nutrition. They called it Pawsible. It was ambitious for two undergraduates.

What came next was something else entirely.

Today, Armaan and Samyak are the co-founders of Anomaly Bio, a Singapore-based biotech startup that engineers microbes into micr ...