
Bactobio is a biotechnology company focused on unlocking the potential of unculturable microbes through genomics, machine learning, and bioengineering. Their innovative approach aims to discover…

Bactobio is a biotechnology company focused on unlocking the potential of unculturable microbes through genomics, machine learning, and bioengineering. Their innovative approach aims to discover…
Headquarters: London, United Kingdom
Founded: 2020
Focus: Culturing unculturable soil microbes to discover natural products (antimicrobials/biofungicides) using synthetic biology, sequencing, and ML
Employees (approx.): ~54
Most recent funding: Convertible Note, Dec 1, 2022
Antimicrobial discovery, agricultural biofungicides, and sustainable biotechnology.
2020
Biotechnology Research
Most recent disclosed round per Crunchbase; company reported multiple rounds (three) overall.
“Has multiple institutional and individual backers including Bridford Group, Hugh Grant, Peder Nielsen, Pioneer Fund, Entangle S.A., Leopoldo Zambeletti, Jonathan Milner”
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We are looking for a skilled, hands-on microbiology lab technician to join our multi-disciplinary team in our mission to harness the potential of unculturable microbes.
Role
In this role, you will facilitate the expansion of our library of novel microbes and support our vision to discover solutions to global issues including the discovery of new antibiotics against resistant bacteria and fungicides to support global food security.
Team
Our microbial generation team oversees the generation, processing, and stocking of novel species of microbes.
Together we have used extensive data collection and a range of bioinformatics approaches to culture more than 2000 previously unexplored microbial species. We continue to grow our library by employing a variety of sequencing approaches including whole genome sequencing, amplicon sequencing and shotgun metagenomics to strengthen our understanding of individual microbes and the soil microbiome. On top of this, we apply co-occurrence and reactome techniques to understand the relationships between individual species and are implementing machine learning to iteratively improve our experimentation to increase our microbial capture rates.
We are a diverse team, using a range of capabilities to continue to increase our cultivation rates for novel species through further technological development of the platform and automated pipelines. This allows for exploration of a greater chemical space (e.g. carbon sources, nitrogen sources) and biological space (e.g. helper strains, symbionts) to culture truly novel microbes.
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We are a London-based biotechnology startup using breakthrough technologies in synthetic biology, next-generation sequencing and machine learning to cultivate the 99% of previously unculturable microbes. These microbes constitute the biggest bioresource in life, and our exclusive access allows us to discover novel chemicals that can be applied across a variety of markets.
We are impact-driven. Our first goal is to solve the growing antimicrobial resistance crisis through novel antibiotics and stabilise global food security through novel natural biodegradable fungicides.
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