Brief Description
Pow.Bio provides intelligent fermentation services for industrial and synthetic biology. The company's services combine continuous fermentation with advanced control methodology to quickly optimize the fermentation process and deliver high yields at low cost. The scale runs from 1-100 liter capacity for bacteria, yeast, and filamentous fungi. The first-of-its-kind fermentation technology solves the capacity problem of bioproduction with high-performance continuous fermentation that can run for hundreds of hours. This holy grail of biology offers an order of magnitude step-change for the industry’s capacity, as well as superior speed, cost, and scale.
Ouwei Wang co-founded the company as a PhD student in the lab of UC Berkeley Professor of Microbiology John Coates.
Formerly known as POW Genetic Solutions.
Timeline
- 2018. Company founded
- 2020. Company joins Berkeley SkyDeck Batch 8
Inventor
John Coates