Bioengineering
Better:

Frontier AI for biomanufacturing

We're twig.

We’re a bioengineering company. And we’re changing the future of chemicals and ingredients.

Pick up any bottle, tube, or tub and have a squint at the small print. Whether it’s your medication or your moisturiser, there you’ll find the biggest little ingredients that make the world go round.

But right now, the “secret ingredients” powering our everyday products are built on a fragile foundation. For decades, the industry has accepted the status quo of extractive fossil fuels and hyper-intensive farming.

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It leaves producers vulnerable to extreme supply chain volatility, unpredictable price swings, and a lack of innovation.

We believe our world deserves better. By moving away from extractive methods and unlocking precision bio-manufacturing, we can bring stability and innovation back to global supply chains.

twig makes this possible. Combining our frontier AI with our automated wet-lab, we’ve closed the loop and can create biofermented ingredients in as little as eight weeks.

Delivering products: our pipeline and partners

A platform is only as good as the products it delivers. We aren’t just building technology; we’re building a robust pipeline of ingredients designed to provide a stable, bio-fermented supply for global brands.

We work with ingredients, chemicals and consumer goods companies to solve their supply chain challenges.

An example product in development is a novel active ingredient for suncare.

Right now, the suncare market is grappling with serious regulatory pressures and crying out for effective, skin-friendly, and environmentally stable ingredients. twig is building the solution and working with global partners to bring it to market.

Whether seeking specialist fatty acids, unique flavours, fragrances, improved titres from an existing microbe, or something else, talk to us to see how our AI can unlock your biofermentation needs.

Building an AI defined, bioengineered future

Introducing twig:tech, our proprietary platform.

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

bio:drive

Our ‘dry lab’. At the heart of bio:drive sits CANOPY, the world’s frontier AI foundation model for microbe design. From hundreds of billions of possibilities, CANOPY generates novel microbe designs and scores 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? CANOPY accelerates what was previously a two-week job into seconds. It leverages our huge data libraries of past experiments to score performance with incredible precision, removing negative human bias from 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, creating the data flywheel needed to close the loop and power our bio:drive AI insights

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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.