Faircraft is a material science company revolutionizing the fashion industry by creating lab-grown leather without animals. Leveraging cell biology and advanced material science, they engineer a new class of sustainable materials with exceptional touch and feel properties, high transformability, and a low environmental footprint. Their platform allows brands to fine-tune material characteristics at a cellular level to evoke specific emotions, enabling unique storytelling and design. They are actively seeking collaborations with designers and brands to bring their innovative materials to life.
Faircraft is a material science company revolutionizing the fashion industry by creating lab-grown leather without animals. Leveraging cell biology and advanced material science, they engineer a new class of sustainable materials with exceptional touch and feel properties, high transformability, and a low environmental footprint. Their platform allows brands to fine-tune material characteristics at a cellular level to evoke specific emotions, enabling unique storytelling and design. They are actively seeking collaborations with designers and brands to bring their innovative materials to life.
What they do: Biofabricated lab-grown real leather for fashion brands (B2B)
HQ & founding: Paris, France — founded 2021
Founders / leadership: Haïkel Balti (Co‑Founder & CEO), Cesar Valencia‑Gallardo (Co‑Founder & CTO)
Stage signal: Reported Series A
Company Overview
Problem Domain
Sustainable materials and alternatives to animal leather for the fashion and luxury industry.
Founded
2021
Industry
Biotechnology Research
Tech Stack
AWS Lambda
CloudFront
Cloudflare
Content Delivery Network
Google Font API
Funding Track Record
Series A
Company listed as having completed a Series A; some funding details are redacted in sources.
Investor Signal
“AFI Ventures, Alliance for Impact, Arthur Waller, Blue Wire Capital, Bpifrance, CapHorn Invest, Entrepreneurs First, Heirloom, Joyance Partners, Kindred Ventures, Nicolas Douay, Sake Bosch”
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Bioprocess Engineer (CDI)
On-SiteParis, FR
On-Site • Paris, FR
Descriptif du poste
We are looking for a skilled Bioprocess Engineer to work in our Industrialisation team. Your role will be to design, test and implement our bioproduction systems lab to a large manufacturing scale requiring a pluridisciplinary and systems approach. You will work with a team of world-class Faircraft scientists, engineers and technicians to design innovative solutions needed to scale up production of our high quality cultivated leather.
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Provide sound scientific expertise and hands-on efforts to lead the development of the high-level system architecture for the biomanufacturing bespoke systems.
Lead the development and implementation of multi phenomenon simulations to design the biomanufacturing bespoke systems.
Lead the development of the biomanufacturing bespoke systems based on the requirements of the final product. These may be novel or off the shelf solutions with system interfaces to the entire production unit operations.
Lead the task from conception through to detailed design for the production of cell based materials at Faircraft.
Participate in the implementation of bespoke technological solutions
Assist in developing detailed transfer protocols and training for the manufacturing teams
Participate in experiments on evaluating process parameters to test the bespoke systems
Clearly document design, installation and operational procedures for the bespoke systems: lab-scale, pilot-scale and manufacturing scale experiments
Collaborate with the Applied Research team to design, create, test and improve bioprocesses to scale our technology from the lab to manufacturing scales.
Contribute to developing and testing systems to ensure the quality products.
Assist in searching and ordering critical equipment, raw materials, and reagents required for projects
