Success Stories

OVERVIEW

Building the Future of Health, Food, Nutrition, Together

At ScaleUp Bio, we connect food innovators, industry leaders, research institutions and investors to advance new food technologies using precision fermentation.

We offer practical support for both startups and established companies, guiding projects from concept through to pilot and commercial scale production.

What Our Partners Say

“ScaleUp Bio’s professional support and tech transfer expertise have been instrumental to our partnership. We value the collaborative environment and your team’s significant impact on our project.”

Batmunkh Myagmardorj

CEO, Biotix
“Collaborating with ScaleUpBio through the Fermentation Joint Lab has been instrumental to our Singapore Food Story initiatives and projects. The joint lab team’s technical and professional expertise, along with state-of-the-art facilities strategically located in Singapore—the hub of Southeast Asia—have greatly supported stakeholders in accelerating R&D and bringing novel fermentation-based solutions closer to commercial reality.”

Dr. Melanie Weingarten

Co-Head of Biotransformation and Engineering Division, SIFBI, A*STAR and Co-Lead of Fermentation Joint Lab
“Our collaboration with ScaleUp Bio has been instrumental in progressing Nourish Ingredients’ commercial and regulatory milestones. Together, we successfully scaled our fermentation process from 100L to 10KL, a critical step that validated both the scalability and consistency of our production platform.

The partnership has also enabled seamless technology and knowledge transfer, strengthening our internal capabilities as we move toward full commercial readiness and into the market.

ScaleUp Bio has proven to be a reliable, skilled, and responsive partner playing a key role in helping bring our breakthrough fats to the global stage”.

Kiran Pawar
Food Process Engineer

Nourish Ingredients

Anna El Tahchy
Chief Technical Officer

Nourish Ingredients

Collaboration Highlights

Scaling Microencapsulated Oil Production in Europe

ScaleUp Bio worked with a European innovator to scale up the production of sustainable microencapsulated oil and fat to pilot-industrial batch levels. The goal was to improve yield and secure sufficient final product for regulatory approval and market launch.

ScaleUp Bio collaborated with the company to progress from pilot-scale to reach the 10,000L mark.

ScaleUp Bio optimised fermentation pulse dosing and calibrated partial harvesting maximise productivity. Downstream, the team refined centrifugation parameters and wash methods, adjusted pasteurisation and spray-drying conditions to minimise product loss without compromising quality.

Over the course of five runs, yield improved by 431%, with a 587% increase in final product volume between the first and fifth batches. This consistent improvement enabled the innovator to progress toward commercial deployment with confidence.

Reducing Unit Cost in Asia Pacific

ScaleUp Bio worked with an Asia Pacific innovator to reduce their unit economics by 88% within two pilot-industrial runs, bringing the production cost to below US $400/kg. The objective was to demonstrate viable cost structure at scale to support commercial pricing.

By systematically reviewing fermentation and downstream steps, the two teams were able to identify immediate cost-saving opportunities, with further optimization ongoing.