Bioengineering
Better:

AI Ingredients that don’t cost the earth.

We're twig.

We’re a bioengineering company. And we’re changing the future of consumer goods.

Pick up any bottle, box, tube or container and have a squint at the small print. There you’ll find the biggest little ingredients that make the world go round. Ingredients produced from fossil fuels, intensive agriculture or animal farming.

Take hyaluronic acid. You’ve probably never heard of it. But it’s used every day around the world in skincare – you might have used it this morning. And the cheapest hyaluronic acid comes from the comb on top of a rooster.

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Or there’s isoprene, what your car tyres are made with. Getting that show on the road requires the extraction of fossil fuels, a finite resource that’s costing our planet.

These are just two of hundreds of ingredients that could have better alternatives, with little to no compromise.

Bioengineered products that offer improvements against their traditional counterparts is our target. At twig, we have the technology to make this a reality.

Our world deserves better: bioengineering is the solution

We’re using AI for good. With our bioengineering and automation platform, we do things differently, rebuilding the biggest little ingredients the world relies on at lightning speed. Using microbes as miniscule factories, we can make hundreds of different ingredients in a clean and sustainable way, fit for the future.

It’s called precision fermentation.

Fermentation has been around for ages, it makes that yoghurt in your breakfast bowl, and the beer you open at the end of a long day.

twig’s platform brings the precision and the scale. Our technology allows us to create the microbes that can grow all the ingredients we rely on every day.

Here’s the twig:tech way:

Building an AI defined, bioengineered future

Introducing twig:tech, our proprietary tools.

Built to provide the world with better, cleaner ingredients. AI, biology and sustainability, working together.

bio:drive

Our ‘dry lab’. From hundreds of billions of possibilities, our AI and ML tools generate novel microbe designs and score their expected performance.
Microbe designs in the millions – covering pathway and enzyme selection, gene edits, and expression levels – are lab-ready and transferred to grow:bot.

What makes it so great? bio:drive accelerates what was previously a two-week job into seconds, leverages our huge data libraries of past experiments to score performance, and removes negative human bias in microbe design generation.

grow:bot

Our ‘wet lab’. If bio:drive is the thinker, then grow:bot is the doer. Our automated, high-throughput tool builds the massive diversity of microbe designs from bio:drive, generating real data across plate and fermentor.

Using rapid, low-cost analytics, from millions of designs we select one top performer, ready for industrial-scale manufacture.

What makes it so great? grow:bot is a standardised approach to microbe building, so we get results fast. Our lab workflow encourages microbe failure, so we’re directed to the top performer for industrial scaling quickly and efficiently. After all, we only need one of our microbe designs to make it through. It has been built from the ground up, optimising the data output needed to power our bio:drive insights

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Case studies

A selection of our work to showcase the power of twig:tech. Click here to view more.

Our investors

We’re proud to have a fantastic group of impactful and committed investors as part of our journey to build our products. If you’re an investor that wants to create ingredients that don’t cost the earth then get in touch.