Extracellular

🍫 At Extracellular, we understand that for cell-cultured products to be competitive with traditional products, we need to get to cost parity for biomanufacturing. This means finding new and creative ways to reduce biomanufacturing costs as much as possible 🍫   🥓 This means we produce our products in food-grade sites instead of over-specced biopharma facilities 🥓   🥇 It means we use traditional agriculture inputs for our media, not growth factors that cost more per kg than gold 🥇   🏡 And it means we don't use bioreactors that cost more than a central London house 🏡   This is our ethos....And we're demonstrating that with the opening of our food-grade site in Q1 2024, complete with our new 2,000L bioreactor. Yes we built it on the site of an old microbrewery. Yes its safe to produce cells in there. And yes it cost us 95% less per sqm than a biotech facility....savings we pass on to our customers. This is only stage 1 of our facility journey. Watch out for more 👀 Special shoutout to Jamie Thompson & lionel zapata vega for the amazing job in leading this project 🎉

🦋 Doesn't she just look great all dressed up? 🦋   👁 Here's a sneak peak inside one of the largest contract pilot facilities for cell-culture production in Europe. Complete with a 200L and 2,000L bioreactor, and more to come shortly to eventually reach 10,000L of total production capacity 👁   🎉 We were ecstatic to open this facility earlier this year and begin pilot-scale cell-culture work in here shortly after 🎉   🍻 In fact, this was an old microbrewery, that we have decided to convert into a biotech facility. It has all the same features including ISO 9001 and soon to have ISO22000 food safety approval. 🍻   🥐 Here at Extracellular, we're living the food-first approach. Finding new ways to move the industry forward and lower the cost of production for cell-cultured production 🥐   Stay tuned for a behind the scenes look at how it was built....

🥩 We're getting closer and closer to having a cultivated meat product in the UK and Europe for consumers to enjoy 🥩 ⏩ Over the last week, there's been some great regulatory progress with some of the leading cultivated meat companies in Europe ⏩ 1) Meatly gained approval for the first ever cultivated product to be sold on market in the UK, with their cultivated pet food product. 2) Mosa Meat held one of Europe's first tastings of their cultivated beef burger, following Meatable's tasting a few months ago. 3) GOURMEY have announced that they have filed for 5(!) regulatory approvals for their cultivated foie gras, including in the UK, EU and Switzerland. 💪 It's getting clearer and clearer that cultivated food products are here to stay and will undoubtedly form part of the food system of the future, in the process saving millions of tonnes of harmful emissions and billions of animals lives 💪 🎉 A huge congratulations to the companies mentioned above and the tremendous progress you've made in trailblazing the way. We're proud to be part of this impactful industry alongside you 🎉

A worthwhile read for any of you cell-culture enthusiasts out there by one of our investors and biggest supporters Newland Syndicate. In the article they dive in to some of the most impactful levers to lower the cost of media production in the short/medium term....   🔬developing and validating alternative sourcing of pharma-grade components 🔬   👩🔬 In conjunction with our customers and media partners, this is a problem Extracellular is currently tackling through our media development services, along with replacing FBS from formulations 👩🔬   ⚙ We can test, screen and validate thousands of different combinations through our high-throughput screening technology, and help our customers source high-quality, low-cost suppliers of media ingredients ⚙   ⬇ Over the course of a few months of development work, we can reduce the costs of our customers media formulations by 90% ⬇   Want to know more? Follow this link to download our media development brochure https://lnkd.in/db38qVsf

📞 *Ring-ring* 📞 Another competition shortlist for Extracellular! Last week our CEO Will Milligan had the honour of pitching with some of the other premier tech start-ups in the South West at KPMG UK Tech Innovator in the UK Award. 📣 Thanks to the KPMG Private Enterprise team for the recognition 📣

We are thrilled to welcome Prithvi Kodialbail to the Extracellular team as Chief Technology Officer! Prithvi brings a wealth of experience in process engineering and bioprocess development at Shiok Meats, Akamis Bio, Replimune and more. Her expertise in sustainable biotechnology and biopharmaceutical development will see her lead the technical team at Extracellular, advancing client delivery and internal research projects across sustainable biotechnology. “I’m a Bioprocess Engineer at heart and an aligned vision with Extracellular on the manufacturing and development of the bioeconomy by sustainable bioengineering just made sense” Welcome to the team, Prithvi! #WelcomeToTheTeam #NewHire #AlternativeProteins #CultivatedMeat #Bioeconomy #Biotechnology #TeamExtracellular

⚡ We're over the moon 🌙 at Extracellular to be selected to the prestigious MassChallenge programme, with the opportunity to rub shoulders with some other great impact start-ups and corporate sponsors such as dsm-firmenich, Nestlé, Givaudan and Bühler Group. We're looking forward to the next 3 months of learning and networking through the programme (and of course the trips to Lausanne 🇨🇭)!

It was great to have Christabel Hamer with us at Extracellular for an internship during her degree at University of Bristol Wonderful write-up of your time here 🥳

🏆 🇬🇧 🎶 It's comin home, it's comin home, football's comin home 🎶 🇬🇧 🏆 Awesome to be nominated by FoodHack as a semi-finalist amongst all these other FoodTech champions from around the world. We're looking forward to the pitch and the opportunity to FINALLY bringing a World Cup back to the UK 🇬🇧

Check him out! 📣 Our Chief Cheerleading Officer Will Milligan championing Engineering Biology and UK Biomanufacturing at the House of Lords Committee Summit! The UK is fast becoming the next global leader in cellular agriculture. With the right ecosystem and support, the UK can be the best place in the world to scale and commercialise these products. We’re looking forward to seeing what the UK does next!