🍫 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 🎉
Extracellular
Biotechnology
The first-choice bioprocessing and scale-up partner for the sustainable bioeconomy
About us
We are a bioprocessing partner for the sustainable bio-economy. Our aim is to create the world's most efficient bioprocess for cell-culture. We provide solutions across bioprocess development, scale-up, media development and cell-line development to companies seeking to create sustainable alternatives to consumer products using biotechnology. These sectors include cultivated meat & seafood, plant-cell culture food, bio-cosmetics and bio-supplements.
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http://extracellular.com
External link for Extracellular
- Industry
- Biotechnology
- Company size
- 11-50 employees
- Headquarters
- Bristol
- Type
- Privately Held
- Founded
- 2022
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Primary
St Philips Central
Bristol, GB
Employees at Extracellular
Updates
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🦋 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....
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🥩 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 🎉
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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
Today we take another step in building Europe's leading syndicate in the Food&Ag space. We are excited to launch 'New Lens', a series from Newland Syndicate offering our perspective on the future of Agrifood technology. Similar to our investment philosophy, this series will take a technical approach to break down complex topics in these sectors. For our first publication, Joao Garcia (Assistant Professor of Cellular Agriculture at Wageningen University & Research) and Tom Facon (Associate) discuss specific approaches to reduce production costs and unlock scale for the Cultivated Meat industry:
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📞 *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 📣
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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
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⚡ 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 🇨🇭)!
We're excited to announce our 18 #startups from our new UK hub 🇬🇧!! They will join our 4-months early-stage program, with events in both Switzerland and the UK. 🎉 🎉🎉Congratulations to AiMorphous Health, Angry Camel, apriko B.V., Change Bio, CloEE, ConfidentialMind, DeafTawk, Demi AI, Envisionit Deep AI®, Extracellular, Generational, Grounded Sensors, Jeev, PerPlant, Nicholas Purcell with Purcell, Syngens, Ventra, Zetamotion Discover now their amazing solutions 👇 together with our UK Hub Partners! https://lnkd.in/ey649pju
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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 🥳
Thrilled to see that the University of Bristol has recognised my role as an Associate Scientist intern at Extracellular as part of the SME internship scheme! My time spent with Extracellular provided a truly insightful introduction to the world of biotech and working within a start up. I am hugely appreciative of this experience, beginning my internship at an extremely busy period for the company, I found I greatly improved my existing organisational and analytical abilities in addition to enhancing my capabilities regarding data interpretation. Extracellular specializes in services related to cultivated meat production, a rapidly expanding field in biotechnology. This area holds substantial potential to enhance sustainability in agriculture and promote more ethical methods of meat production. I am eager to see how Extracellular evolves in the coming years and am thankful for the experience I gained. For those interested in learning more about my journey, I have linked my blog post for the careers service below https://lnkd.in/enFUAgxC Finally many thanks to the team at Extracellular for supporting me during my time there 😊
My SME Internship: Christa – Extracellular
https://universityofbristolcareers.blogs.bristol.ac.uk
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🏆 🇬🇧 🎶 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 🇬🇧
Introducing the Semi Finalists of the FoodTech World Cup 🥁 Together with Givaudan - Taste & Wellbeing, we scoured the globe for new talent across the agrifood value chain. Get ready to meet the 46 breakthrough startups spanning 25 countries primed to pitch in the FoodTech World Cup Semi Finals - taking place as regional Demo Days in front of an expert Jury. Next up: Startups from each region will be selected to compete in the FoodTech World Cup Final, at the HackSummit, where a winner will be crowned. 🎟️ Get your ticket today and join us in Lausanne, June 13-14 to watch the final unfold: https://www.hacksummit.co/ So without further ado: 🇧🇪 Bolder Foods 🇫🇷 Bon Vivant 🇪🇸 CULTZYME 🇵🇱 EcoBean 🇬🇧 Extracellular 🇮🇹 Foreverland Food 🇩🇪 Neggst 🇫🇮 Perfat Technologies 🇪🇸 POSEIDONA 🇩🇪 ProteinDistillery 🇨🇱 ByBug 🇦🇷 Food4You 🇲🇽 Forma Foods 🇨🇱 Frankles 🇧🇷 Future Cow Technologies 🇦🇷 Kresko RNAtech 🇦🇷 NAT4Bio 🇧🇷 Typcal 🇺🇸 Vexxel 🇧🇷 Yeda Health 🇸🇬 Another Food 🇸🇬 Elevate Foods 🇸🇬 ImpacFat 🇦🇺 Magic Valley 🇮🇳 TERRAMATTER 🇪🇹 COFFEE RESURRECT, Inc. (የቡና ትንሣኤ) 🇺🇬 PrimeJack®️ & FiberFoods 🇳🇬 Kitovu Technology Company 🇬🇭 Legendary Foods (Africa) 🇮🇱 Arrakis Bio 🇮🇱 BOB FoodTech 🇮🇱 Day 8 🇮🇱 Finally Foods 🇮🇱 Gavan 🇮🇱 Kokomodo 🇦🇪 MANHAT 🇮🇱 MAOLAC Decoding Nature 🇮🇱 Sweet Victory Gum 🇲🇦 Terraa 🇺🇸 Bioeutectics 🇺🇸 Cellibre 🇺🇲 High time Foods 🇺🇲 Mi Terro 🇨🇦 Opalia 🇺🇸 Plantible 🇺🇲 Thola Meet the Founders behind the Startups: https://lnkd.in/eFzxraMB
Revealed: 46 FoodTech World Cup Semi-Finalists
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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!
Another exciting week - this time speaking in the House of Lords. 👩🏽⚖️ I think this is a bit of a career highlight, to be invited to give evidence to the House of Lords Select Committee on Engineering Biology, about biomanufacturing in the UK. Honestly, I was pretty nervous. It’s a really important topic in a pretty formidable environment. But the Select Committee was great - approachable, knowledgable and experienced. And to speak alongside Oxford Nanopore Technologies and Colorifix, two amazing UK companies, was great. Hopefully it’s not long before Extracellular is contributing to the UK Bioeconomy at their level. If you want to see what I look like when I’m nervous (and so, so serious apparently 😐), here’s a link: https://lnkd.in/efThn9tK #biomanufacturing #cellularagriculture #cultivatedmeat #biomaterials
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