The climate transition requires new materials and ingredients for everything from food to textiles, pharmaceuticals to industrial inputs. Traditional lab-based development moves too slowly.
Bangalore-based Lemnisca has designed an AI-based digital simulator that enables biomanufacturers “to test, refine and optimize their processes virtually before running real batches, much like a flight simulator for bioprocessing,” explained early-stage climate tech VC firm Theia Ventures in a post about the investment.
Lemnisca’s founders describe their work as “good old chemical engineering, biology and a sprinkling of AI.”
Theia led Lemnisca’s pre-seed investment round to speed up the “trial and error” and commercialization of new molecules and materials.
“We see biomanufacturing at a pivotal inflection point where advances in biology need to be matched by equally sophisticated computational infrastructure,” the woman-led VC firm shared. “The next leap in sustainable production will come from platforms that bring intelligence, predictability and scale to industrial fermentation.” The size of the round was not disclosed.
Biomanufacturing
Think of lab-grown meat and leather, bio-based crop treatments, and alternative proteins developed through fermentation. The discovery, testing and production of such products can take a decade or more.
Lemnisca’s goal is a local and sustainable supply of critical materials.
“The world can’t keep relying on long, linear supply chains,” the team wrote. “An antifragile, sustainable future needs manufacturing that’s more local, more circular and far more adaptable.”
