Ingredient manufacturers need better microbial production hosts because commonly used industrial strains can limit yield, functionality and economics.
R&D Focus
Synthetic biology, microbial strain discovery and precision fermentation.
Innovative Solution
Builds a discovery engine that searches diverse wild microbes and engineers selected strains to manufacture emulsifiers, cleansers, vitamins, supplements and other ingredients.
Solution Effectiveness
The company frames the opportunity around roughly one trillion microbial species and states its approach can improve performance and reduce costs; no validated comparative metric was found.
Investment Funding
Last Funding Stage
Seed
Total Funding Amount
3.3M
Last Funding Date
01-03-2024
Startup Stage
Seed
Lead Investors
Activate, Alpine Investors, Sahin Boydas, Freeflow Ventures, Third Derivative
Revenue
$1M to $10M
About
Wild Microbes is a next-generation microbial platform that makes everything from plastics to proteins. They develop new microbial strains, making scaling sustainable products faster and cheaper than ever.
Products
Product
Custom microbial strains and fermentation pathways for food, personal-care and industrial ingredients.
Star Product
Wild-microbe discovery engine – expands the range of organisms available for precision fermentation.
Demo Product or Complete Product?
Early B2B platform and ingredient-development stage.
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