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FabricNano
Biomanufacturing approach to producing chemicals
- 21-100 employees
- B2B
- Manufacturing
- Biology
- Environmental
- Science
- London, UK
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Company mission
FabricNanos's mission is to replace all fermented and petrochemical products in the world with biomanufactured alternatives.
Our take
Harvesting the power of single-cell organisms is one of humankind’s oldest manufacturing techniques: Think of beer, wine, cheese, and bread. FabricNano is invested in the creation of cell-free biomanufacturing. Biomanufacturing is the use of enzymes within a cell or microbe to produce an end-product. Those enzymes, can produce chemicals, like those used to make drugs or plastics, with higher efficiency compared to cell-based systems, and without the reliance on fossil fuels that are currently used to make those chemicals en masse.
Building a business within the ‘golden triangle’ of Oxford, Cambridge, and London, FabricNano has convened an interdisciplinary team by drawing from experts across biochemistry, chemistry, enzymology, computer science and theoretical physics.
The biggest limitation to FabricNano’s success may be finding a reliable and inexpensive source of the enzymes used in the chemical reaction. In living organisms, most of the enzymes are produced by the cells themselves, or the organism ingests them from the environment. In FabricNano’s case, the enzymes must be manufactured in-house or purchased.
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Company values
- Always choose candor
- Be curious about each other's work
- Busy doesn't count; results do
- If you aren't thriving, your work isn't thriving
- This is your business
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
May 2021
$11m
SERIES A
Dec 2020
$0.6m
GRANT
Total funding: $14.1m
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Leadership
Grant Aarons
(CEO)Former Research Analyst at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York with a Master of Research in Economics from the London Business School.
Ferdinando Randisi
(CTO)Computational biophysicist with a PhD in DNA theoretical biophysics.