Switch Bioworks
Switch Bioworks is a biotech startup dedicated to creating sustainable fertilizer solutions by engineering naturally occurring microbes to produce fertilizer directly on plant roots. Their mission is to displace harmful industrial nitrogen fertilizer, reduce CO2 emissions, and promote global food security through innovative synthetic biology and microbiome engineering.
Industries
Nr. of Employees
small (1-50)
Switch Bioworks
San Carlos, California, United States, North America
Products
Living microbial biofertilizer (dry powder)
A powdered formulation containing large numbers of dormant microbes that are rehydrated and applied at sowing; designed to colonize plant roots and activate biological nitrogen production in the rhizosphere.
Living microbial biofertilizer (dry powder)
A powdered formulation containing large numbers of dormant microbes that are rehydrated and applied at sowing; designed to colonize plant roots and activate biological nitrogen production in the rhizosphere.
Services
Microbial strain development and productization
R&D and development work to identify, engineer, and formulate microbial strains into a stable powdered product for agricultural use.
Microbial strain development and productization
R&D and development work to identify, engineer, and formulate microbial strains into a stable powdered product for agricultural use.
Expertise Areas
- Microbial engineering for nitrogen fixation
- Biofertilizer formulation and seed-applied delivery
- Microbial discovery and screening
- High-throughput strain engineering and genetic circuit design
Key Technologies
- Synthetic biology
- Genetic circuit design
- Nitrogen fixation engineering
- Microbial isolation and culture