Cultivating
Progress
THE SWAN NECK BIO
DIFFERENCE
We partner with food and biotech companies to trial, validate, and scale microorganisms from lab to 1,000L.
This dramatically derisks the scaling process and accelerates the time-to-market.
And we’re significantly cheaper and more cost effective than existing solutions.
Our vision is a world where there are no constraints to progress for the biosolutions urgently needed by a growing population.
THE STATUS QUO:
A SLOW AND EXPENSIVE ROAD TO MARKET
Today, food and biotech companies with promising solutions looking to scale are held back by a slow testing phase and huge capital outlays.
These unnecessary constraints cause too many businesses to fail before their time.
FlexCell® —
the breakthrough tech that makes progress possible
Our proprietary FlexCell® technology gives food and biotech companies of any size a faster and dramatically more affordable way to validate the commercial potential of their microorganism.
HOW IT WORKS
Step 1 / Customize your FlexVessel bioreactor
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Works for a wide array of microorganisms, including yeast, filamentous fungi, bacteria and algae
No risk of cross-contamination
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Unlimited and immediate configurations for ports and probes for any food/biotech-grade applications
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No need for time-consuming CIP and SIP processes
Run unlimited fermentations side-by-side
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Compatible with stock or proprietary propagation media
HOW IT WORKS
Step 2 / Define your process parameters and data collection
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— Substrate
— Temperature
— Oxygen availability
— Substrate feed
— pH, and more
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— Density & pH
— Optical density
— Dissolved oxygen
— Gas mass-flow (CO2 etc.)
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— Fingerprinting
— Titer
— Target molecule quantification
— qPCR
— Viability
— Productivity
— Biomass Yield
HOW IT WORKS
Step 3 / Select your quality parameters, DSP and product harvest
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We collaborate with you to establish the most relevant quality parameters, customizing them to fit your process
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We offer non-intrusive biomass concentration and harvest solutions
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Our capabilities ensure you meet all relevant Organic, Food Safety, GMO and ISO standards, certifications and requirements
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If needed, strains can be cryogenically stored, ready for deployment at short notice
OUR STORY
First there was a company that made yeast...
Swan Neck Bio™ is a spin-out from White Labs - a global leader in fermentation since 1995.
White Labs’ pioneering FlexCell technology revolutionized the brewing industry by enabling yeast to be grown and packaged in the same container.
At Swan Neck Bio, we’re applying this single-use bioreactor technology to help growing companies scale, validate, and deploy the biosolutions of the future.
Core Team
Headquartered in Copenhagen and with supporting lab- and production capabilities in San Diego, CA, and Asheville, NC our team of microbiologists and fermentation specialists is on a mission to accelerate success for biomass and precision fermentation companies.
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Troels Prahl
Co-Founder & CEO
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Mark Emil Hermansen
Co-Founder
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Eoin Galligan
Business Development Director
Technical commitee
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Toby Richardson
CSO, Entrepreneur and Biotech executive
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Arielle Johnson
Flavor Scientist
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Thomas Nagy
Entrepreneur, Biotech executive.
Partner, Astanor Ventures -
Chris White
Founder, White Labs
Track record
