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November 17, 2022

Cradle raises €5.5m to ‘reverse engineer’ biology with machine learning

The startup founders want to increase the success rate of biology experiments and enable a more sustainable manufacturing of food, clothes, chemicals and medicines


Stef van Grieken

The future of manufacturing is biology. Up to 60% of the products we use today, from food and medicines to chemicals and clothes, can be produced with biological processes (biomanufacturing) instead of traditional materials and industrial methods.

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Cradle has its own wet lab to generate the data needed to train its machine learning models
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A landscape image of Cradle's team in matching blue sweaters standing on a wooden bridge
Cradle's team
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