Altar

#Biomanufacturing / Pharmaceutical Services #Industrial Biotech #Ag Tech & Green Tech #R&D Services and Products

• Directed evolution
• Continuous culture
• Adaptive laboratory evolution
• Strain development
• Natural selection
• Chemostat, turbidostat, etc.

BACKGROUND

Created in 2017, Alter is a biotech company specialized in automated microbial fluidics. The company runs a microorganism adaptive laboratory evolution platform at Genopole for research or propriety projects aimed at developing microorganisms of interest in industry.

DESCRIPTION OF THE PRODUCTS / SERVICES / TECHNOLOGY

Altar conceives and operates fluidic automated systems for the continuous culture of microbial suspensions. The company’s technology is used mainly in the setting of adaptive evolution experiments aimed at improving microorganism performance via natural selection. It enables the continuous culture of microbial suspensions under algorithm-controlled conditions for as long as is needed. Altar makes its technology and know-how available through collaborative projects or research services.

ACCOMPLISHMENTS / COLLABORATIONS / HIGHLIGHTS

Altar has benefited from an independent revenue stream since its creation thanks to the sale of research services to the food, chemistry, biofuels and health industries. The company also receives European subventions as a part of the H2020 eForFuel (www.eforfuel.eu) and SinFonia  projects in partnership with public and private operatives. In 2020, Altar was chosen by the European Commission within the EIC Accelerator Pilot program’s Green Deal call for proposals.

COLLABORATIONS SOUGHT

To sustain its growth, Altar continuously seeks academic and industrial partners to deploy its technology for the development of microbial strains of interest

• Further Information

  Number of employees: 9 employees and currently hiring

  STRENGTHS
  Team, technological leadership, market traction, current growth, independence and agility.

  INNOVATION ASSETS
  A visionary in in vivo adaptive laboratory evolution.