One of Whale Labs founders, also a budding beekeeper, wanted to explore potential alternative
income streams. The goal was to create extra profitability from a hive without providing significant
extra workload or impeding on the hives effectiveness. He realised that the collection of bee venom,
known as apitoxin, was a virtually untapped market within Australia. Apitoxin has proven to have
many medical benefits as well as potentially new cures and treatments to known diseases such as
dementia and HIV.