Insiya Jafferjee is Co-Founder and CEO of Shellworks, a pioneering materials-science company developing Vivomer, a new class of natural materials designed to replace plastic.

Insiya earned a Bachelor of Applied Science in Product Design from Stanford University and dual master's degrees in Innovation Design Engineering from the Royal College of Art and Imperial College London. From 2014 to 2019, she was a Manufacturing Design Engineer and Watch & iPod Product Operations, NPI at Apple.

Insiya grew up in Sri Lanka and studied Product Design with a specialism in mechanical engineering and anthropology at Stanford. Insiya Jafferjee was named winner of the Bold Future Award in 2025.

Shellworks raised $15 million in Series A funding led by Alter Equity to scale production of Vivomer and expand into the United States and Europe. The company aims to hit £10m of revenue by 2026, having received around £7.5m in total funding from global investors.

With TÜV Austria certification and a proven track record of replacing over 900,000 plastic units, Shellworks is actively helping brands reduce their environmental footprint. The company has reached cost competitiveness with traditional materials such as aluminium and glass, even while producing only about 5 million units.