ÄIO and TFTAK Get €1.94m for Microbial Oil Production Project
Estonian biotechnology company ÄIO and applied research organisation TFTAK have secured €1.94 million in funding for their microbial oil production project, DigiFoundry 2.0.
The three-year project aims to improve the efficiency and scalability of microbial oil production by combining strain development with fermentation optimisation, automation, and digital process control.
Prof. Petri-Jaan Lahtvee, Co-founder and COO of ÄIO, stated that their goal is to make microbial oil production 'sustainable, highly efficient, and economically competitive at an industrial scale.'
The project follows the earlier DigiFoundry collaboration between ÄIO and TFTAK, which developed an automated platform for microbial strain design and a Design-Build-Test-Learn process.