twig 🇬🇧
Bioengineering high-yield, low-cost, scalable ingredients through an automated lab using advanced AI for rapid R&D.
About twig
The company develops biofermented ingredients and specialty chemicals using an AI-guided platform that designs enzymes, pathways, and microbial strains for production. Its automated laboratory and fermentation workflows generate data that trains predictive models and guides experiments, including strain optimization and process development.
twig is a UK-based company founded in 2022, now around 17 people. It has raised $3.8M in disclosed funding. FundFinder classes it as AI & ML.
Founded by James Allen (Co-Founder & CSO; repeat founder; previously Bonas MacFarlane, INVISTA; University of Oxford), Satnam Surae, Phd (Co-founder and CTO; previously Aigenpulse, INVISTA; University College Dublin), Russ Tucker (Co-Founder and CEO; repeat founder; previously Boston Consulting Group (BCG), Ivy Farm Technologies; ICAEW).
Its investors also appear on FundFinder's most-active lists for Seed · Climate & Sustainability (80 funds), Seed · Healthcare & Wellbeing (87 funds), Seed · DeepTech (80 funds).
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Seed · Apr 2026
- Future Planet — Future Planet Capital links global centres of innovation to opportunities capable of delivering breakthrough returns in the areas of Climate, Education, Health, Security and Sustainable Growth. · cheques £25k – £3M
- UK Innovation & Science Seed Fund (UKI2S) — Evergreen, government-backed pre-seed+ fund managed by Future Planet Capital. · cheques up to £1.5M