Capabilities
Facility, equipment, and analytical capability
Every capability below is one we run for our own production. A partner program can take the whole path from cell line to finished ingredient, or plug in at a single step.
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Regulatory track record
We have taken one product the whole way — cell line, media, process, finished food, federal review. Everything below is the facility that did it.
Premarket consultation
Completed with FDA for cell-cultivated salmon. “No questions” letter issued May 2025.
Scope of review
Cell line, culture media, production process, and finished product
In market
On restaurant menus from June 2025 — the first cultivated seafood sold in the United States
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Cultivators and scale
Suspension and perfusion culture from bench through commercial production, in cell cultivators we designed and built ourselves.
Largest single vessel
2,000 L working volume / 3,000 L total volume
Total installed capacity
8,000 L total volume / 5,000 L working volume
Culture modes
Suspension, perfusion, fed-batch
Downstream
Harvest, concentration, and downstream processing of cultivated cell material
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Cell lines and banking
Isolation through to a characterized, banked line — including serum-free and suspension adaptation.
Lines in storage
150+, established in house since 2018
Cryostorage
Vapor-phase liquid nitrogen with off-site backup storage
Sources
Animal cells cultivated within bioreactors, and non-animal sources including plants, fungi, algae, and bacteria
Adaptation work
Serum-free and suspension adaptation of adherent lines
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Analytical
Run in house, alongside the process they support. Methods outside this list are placed with qualified external labs.
Cell counting and viability
Metabolite analysis
Microbiological and sterility testing
Histology and imaging
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Facility and compliance
One building in the Dogpatch neighborhood of San Francisco. Development and production under the same roof.
Registration
FDA-inspected food facility
Manufacturing practice
GMP-compliant
Location
1150 Illinois Street, San Francisco, California
Confidentiality
Partner work is confidential. We describe the service, never the client.
