Fermeate
Fermeate is revolutionizing biomanufacturing through its photomolecular fermentation platform, which leverages light to control microbial cell metabolisms. Founded on a decade of research from the Avalos Lab at Princeton University, the company aims to significantly improve the economics and sustainability of microbial fermentation for producing everyday chemicals, addressing a major portion of chemical industry emissions and the global climate crisis.
Industries
Nr. of Employees
small (1-50)
Products
Photomolecular fermentation platform
A platform that integrates light-responsive regulatory systems and process controls to modulate microbial metabolism for improved yield and sustained productivity in fermentation.
Fermeate
A hardware module that connects to existing bioreactors to deliver precisely timed pulses of light, triggering genetic switches in production organisms to increase yield, stabilize strains, and enable feedstock flexibility.
Photomolecular fermentation platform
A platform that integrates light-responsive regulatory systems and process controls to modulate microbial metabolism for improved yield and sustained productivity in fermentation.
Fermeate
A hardware module that connects to existing bioreactors to deliver precisely timed pulses of light, triggering genetic switches in production organisms to increase yield, stabilize strains, and enable feedstock flexibility.
Services
Collaborative development and application of light-controlled fermentation systems to industrial chemical production through partnerships and joint projects.
Experimental validation and adaptation of optogenetic control strategies across host strains and target molecules to demonstrate feasibility for production scale-up.
Collaborative development and application of light-controlled fermentation systems to industrial chemical production through partnerships and joint projects.
Experimental validation and adaptation of optogenetic control strategies across host strains and target molecules to demonstrate feasibility for production scale-up.
Expertise Areas
- Optogenetic control of microbes
- Metabolic engineering for production
- Fermentation process development (fed-batch and continuous)
- Platform validation across molecules and hosts
Key Technologies
- Optogenetics (light-controlled gene regulation)
- Photomolecular fermentation
- Dynamic metabolic control systems
- Fed-batch and continuous fermentation processes