twig

With our investment, twig created their technical proof of concept, paving the way for groundbreaking innovation. Using engineering biology, twig is transforming sustainable material production, replacing historically fossil fuel-based materials with greener alternatives. Their work is driving significant change toward a more sustainable future. We’re proud to celebrate their journey and the incredible impact they’re making. More from Russ Tucker, CEO and Co-Founder, as he shares twig’s vision and progress👇 #Investment #VentureCapital #EngBio Future Planet Capital

Great day at the BBIA inaugural Demeter awards, showcasing the strength of #biobased #innovation in the UK. So much to be excited about! Part of the day included a panel looking ahead to #2030, which I joined alongside Mark Corbett, Isabel Webb, Sara Holland and Paul Mines. We covered everything from #regulation to #infrastructure, and how the UK needs to seize the opportunity in front of us. Big thanks to Dr Jen Vanderhoven for organising an exceptional day. Already looking forward to the next one! twig

Yesterday our CEO Russ Tucker took to the stage at the Blue Earth Summit, selected as one of the #top10 growth #climatetech companies to pitch. Russ shared our vision to use microbes as miniscule factories to make hundreds of ingredients in a sustainable way, fit for the future. He shared our approach to #bioengineer #better - using AI and ML tools to speed up discovery, which you can learn more about here > https://twig.bio/ Big thanks to Guy Hayler, Freddie O'Shea and the rest of the Blue Earth team for organising an exciting and energising event!

At twig HQ we hosted Sadia Nowshin from Sifted, telling our story of how we ended up working with Co-Laboratories to convert a London laundrette into a lab, right next to a fishmongers! 👕 🔬 🐟 Some of the best science happens in the strangest places! Check out the full article below! 👇

Last week our CEO and Co-Founder Russ headed to the beautiful (and rainy!) Paris to pitch one of our #bioengineered ingredients to the Shiseido Executive Committee and leadership team at Gallinée Microbiome Skincare. To perfect this ingredient, we're using our #AI and #automated platform to design and screen >30 million bacterial strains. Selected from over 60 applicants, twig's solution was a firm favourite with the audience and we're excited to continue to champion #innovative #ingredients alongside the Shiseido team. Huge thanks to Léa Mancuso and Francesca Battaglia Trovato for giving us the opportunity, and to Marie Drago, Alberto Noé, Benjamin Tsutomu Suzuki, Sophie Masson, Christophe HADJUR, Ph.D, Florian d'HAUTEVILLE, Romain Carrega and other members of the Shiseido senior leadership team for accelerating innovation! (Professional photos courtesy of StudioNathSam)

🎉 We are excited to announce that twig has been selected as a 2024 #BE100 company by Blue Earth Summit, recognising our plan to transform the world's chemicals and ingredients supply chains with #sustainable #bioengineering We'll be at the main event in October and hope to see many of you there! Guy Hayler Freddie O'Shea

Welcome to our newest twiglet, Finn Mansfield! Finn is a first-class, MSci Medical Microbiology graduate from Bristol University. He brings all the right skills and experience to team twig; molecular biology with bacterial culture techniques plus bioinformatics tools and data analysis. He’s a keen cyclist and a great addition to our team. We’re excited to have him on board. Welcome to team twig! Find out more about Finn and his interests:  https://lnkd.in/espQcvj8 #bioengineering #hiring #AI #fermentation

💚💚Welcome to the BBIA to our newest member twig💚💚 twig is a bioengineering company. And they're here to change the future of consumer goods with #AI defined #sustainable #ingredients that don’t cost the earth. At twig, they believe that #bioengineering is the solution to our dependence on unsustainable ingredients. Their business involves the rapid creation of bio-based #synthetic #chemicals, leveraging our twig:tech platform to #engineer and optimise the highest performing strains for #commercialisation. Their automated lab means they can analyse tens of thousands of #bacterial strains each week, without human bias. Their focus is to create and commercialise ingredients, which are more sustainable than the use of #fossil fuel derived and the over-farmed and #environmentallydamaging incumbents. https://twig.bio/ Russ Tucker James Allen Satnam Surae, PhD Christina Brown Sarah Davidson Richard L.

I had the great pleasure to represent the work we do at twig at Cambridge Tech Week's panel event 'What are you really using AI for?’ Chaired by Ray Eitel-Porter (Lumyz Advisory), alongside fellow panelists George Drayson (Appella AI), Jaroslaw Rzepecki, PhD (Monumo ), and Dimitris Spathis (Nokia Bell Labs). We discussed how we leveraged AI technologies across diverse sectors including call-centres, electric drivetrain optimisation, healthcare and twig's focus in #engineeringbiology for a more #sustainable future. Importantly, we identified the commonalities across our diverse use cases, highlights include using the right tools for the right use case, the importance of data and constantly assessing quality of outputs, and building in an ethical manner. Finally, we had a couple of great questions from the audience around how we ensure we sufficiently train/coach early career colleagues on the parts of the job which have been supplanted by AI that are still core going forwards, and the potential societal upsides and downsides of wider spread AI adoption. #CTW24 📸 photo credit: Monumo

I'm looking forward to being a panellist on the AI Deep Dive panel event at Cambridge Tech Week next week alongside luminaries in different fields. It's shaping up to be a great conversation! Register here: https://lnkd.in/edyPmqVZ Ray Eitel-Porter, George Drayson, Jaroslaw Rzepecki, PhD, Dimitris Spathis #CamTechWeek