After many years creating and running start-ups with and for others in the USA, Andi is now home in Tasmania and has dedicated herself professionally to the industrial cannabis industry in Australia.

Andi Lucas is the founder of X-Hemp Pty Ltd, Tasmania's only hemp fibre processing facility and one of only a small handful currently operational in the country, and the only 100% female-owned and operated facility of this type in the world.

Securing loans as pre-seed capital to launch in mid-2021, in October 2023 Andi had raised just over $1.5 million via the crowd-sourced funding platform Birchal, welcoming close to one thousand new shareholders for next state of growth. Over the past two years, she has secured supply lines, worked through innumerable start-up challenges, more than doubled the number of hempcrete homes built in Tassie over the past decade, and are ready to scale.