Foodtech Start-Up Support
Engineering for the transition from a proven process to industrial production, helping ventures build plants that perform, and giving investors an independent technical assessment of whether they will.
Early-stage foodtech and biotech ventures need more than successful lab results: they need a credible path from pilot to commercial scale. The hardest part is the transition itself: a process proven under controlled conditions, but never tested under continuous operation, real feedstock variability or commercial economics.
We work on both sides of that transition. For the venture, that means turning a process into a plant that can be built, financed and operated. For the investor, it means an independent assessment of the assumptions behind the projections, identifying where the technical risk lies and what it would take to close the gap.
From Lab Bench to Plant Gate
Techno-Economic Analysis
A reality check on what the plant will cost and what it will produce at the commercial scale assumed by the business plan. We develop mass and energy balances at target capacity, build CAPEX and OPEX from equipment-level engineering, and test whether the unit economics still hold at full-scale production.
Lab → Pilot → Commercial Plant
Staged development that de-risks each step:
- Lab — TRL 4–5 — process basis definition, data gaps, pilot design requirements
- Pilot — TRL 6–7 — equipment selection, trial campaign design, scale-up parameter validation
- First commercial plant — TRL 8 — concept and basic engineering, vendor selection, delivery support
Industrial Network Access
Access to engineering firms, equipment suppliers, contract manufacturers and potential offtakers across agri-food process industries — matched to the process, the stage it is at, and who has done it before at this scale.
Technical Due Diligence
Independent technical assessment of the process behind the investment case: process maturity (TRL), scale-up risk, CAPEX credibility, competitive process benchmarking — and the questions that only surface once a process has been run at scale.