Analysis
How cash commitments shorten your food biotech runway
A steady monthly burn can hide the bills that shorten your runway. Put the commitments and receipts on a calendar.
Scale-up
Analysis of fermentation scale-up, process transfer, recovery and production costs. Examine the assumptions behind the next manufacturing decision.
Analysis
What a food biotech cost model must show investors
One bar is measured. The others are modelled. Make the difference visible before an investor asks.
Analysis
When does a food biotech pilot become a purchase?
A pilot can produce useful evidence and binding commitments. Map what still separates the trial from the next buying decision.
Guide
Five risks to check in a food biotech business
Check customer demand, unit economics, operations, funding and regulatory planning before the next major commitment.
Guide
How ready is your food biotech business for its next stage?
A funding round does not establish commercial readiness. Examine customer commitments, economics, cash, growth and exit assumptions.
Guide
What belongs in a sensory data room?
A practical guide to taste, texture, consumer language and repeat-purchase evidence. See which claims each kind of evidence can support.
Analysis
How downstream processing changes fermentation economics
Upstream titre is only part of the production story. Follow recovery, functionality and separation costs through to the saleable ingredient.
Guide
Should your fermentation company rent capacity or build a plant?
Compare contract production, co-location and ownership using process-transfer evidence, demand, utilisation and the capital you can commit.
Analysis
What must a fermentation process prove before scale-up?
Prepare batch records, process limits, contamination investigations and recovery data for an external production trial.
Guide
How to choose a fermentation production site
Compare site-specific energy, feedstock, facilities, skills and customer access. A worked calculation shows why location belongs in the cost model.