ScaleUp Bio
Welcome to ScaleUp Bio’s LinkedIn channel! ScaleUp Bio is a Singapore-based CDMO specializing in precision fermentation for food, nutrition, and specialty bio-based ingredients. We help innovators scale from lab to market with end-to-end services – from process development, scale up, and cost-down for early commercial production – in our certified GMP facilities. Backed by ADM and Nurasa, a …
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ScaleUp Bio Pte Ltd is a Singapore precision-fermentation CDMO providing end-to-end, food-grade contract development, pilot scale-up, and commercial manufacturing (including submerged microbial and precision fermentation) for food and nutrition innovators. Core capabilities span pilot-industrial fermentation and downstream unit operations (centrifugation, TFF, chromatography, solvent extraction, spray/freeze drying) with cGMP facilities and regulatory/quality compliance. Founding: incorporated Apr 13, 2022; headquartered in Tuas, Singapore (two facilities at 21 Tuas West Drive, #02-01A). Ownership/investors: a joint venture of ADM and Nurasa (wholly owned by Temasek); ADM announced the ScaleUp Bio JV in 2022, and in 2026 Fusionopolis Ventures (EDIS subsidiary) joined as an ADM shareholder. Funding/stock listing: no public listing or additional funding amounts are provided in the results; Tracxn reports private status and SGD <1M revenue for FY ending Dec 31, 2024. Scale: company status “Active”; Tracxn lists revenue <SGD 1M (FY2024) and an employee count of 522 (as shown in the results). Customers/partners: A*STAR/SIFBI (joint lab via SIFBI; Fermentation Joint Lab); customers/LOI partners include Nourish Ingredients, C16 Biosciences, Ultimeat, and Allium Bio. 2025-2026 developments: as of 31 Oct 2023 it was in pre-operational testing for dedicated food-grade facilities with operations expected early 2024, and by Mar 26, 2026 it announced “fresh capital,” consolidation of industrial capabilities in Tuas, and continuity of operations supported by FVPL joining ADM as a shareholder—company remains Active.
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- Home - ScaleUp Bio Pte Ltd — 2018-10-08
- Our Services - ScaleUp Bio Pte Ltd — 2025-07-10
- SCALEUP BIO PTE. LTD. - 2026 Company Profile & Financials - Tracxn — 2026-02-10
- ADM and Temasek’s Asia Sustainable Foods Platform Inaugurate ScaleUp Bio Joint Venture | ADM — 2022-08-01
- ScaleUp Bio Announces Fusionopolis Ventures Joining ADM as Shareholder — 2026-03-26
- ScaleUp Bio Announces Initial Customers from USA, Australia and Asia, Supporting Global Food Innovations - ScaleUp Bio Pte Ltd — 2025-07-10
- How Singapore is helping ‘future-food’ companies scale up | Singapore EDB — 2024-01-17
- Success Stories - ScaleUp Bio Pte Ltd — 2025-07-12
- Industry
- Bioprocess equipment, Food ingredients
- Topics
- Precision fermentation (proteins, dairy, egg)
- Role
- Producer — “…ot scale-up, and commercial manufacturing (including submerged microbial and precision fermentation) for food…”
Bio-solutions it supplies 0
Not yet cited as a supplier in a graded solution.
What they offer
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News & status 6
- 2026-03 Latest status: Fusionopolis Ventures Pte. Ltd. joined ADM as a shareholder in March 2026 to support the company's growth as a precision fermentation CDMO. ↗ ↗ ↗
- 2026-03-26 ScaleUp Bio Announces Fusionopolis Ventures Joining ADM as ShareholderScaleUp Bio is expanding into a leading precision fermentation CDMO in Asia, now backed by Fusionopolis Ventures as a shareholder (alongside ADM), strengthening its integrated Singapore-based pilot-to-manufacturing platform and regional growth ambitions.
- 2025-07-10 Newsroom - ScaleUp Bio Pte LtdScaleUp Bio is a Singapore-based CDMO that is expanding with dedicated food-grade precision fermentation facilities and has secured a Singapore Food Agency license for its Commercial Pilot Production facility in Tuas, signaling regulatory progress and growth …
- 2026-09-29 Singapore is helping ‘future-food’ companiesScaleUp Bio is a Singapore-based contract development and manufacturing organization (CDMO) specializing in submerged microbial and precision fermentation for FoodTech startups, created in 2022 through a partnership between ADM and Temasek-backed Nurasa. The …
- 2025-07-10 ScaleUp Bio Secures Food Manufacturing Licence from Singapore Food Agency for its Commercial Pilot Production Facility in Singapore | ScaleUp Bio Pte LtdScaleUp Bio has secured Singapore Food Agency approval for its Commercial Pilot Production facility in Tuas, marking its status as a licensed, food-grade CDMO with up to 10,000 litres of submerged microbial and precision fermentation capacity. The licence …
- 2026-03-26 ScaleUp Bio Secures Strategic Investment from Fusionopolis Ventures, Strengthening Singapore’s Role as a Regional Biomanufacturing HubScaleUp Bio is expanding as Singapore’s leading precision fermentation CDMO, securing strategic investment from Fusionopolis Ventures (FVPL) to accelerate its end-to-end pilot-to-commercial manufacturing platform and strengthen its role as a regional …
- 2025-07-22 ScaleUp Bio to set up two facilities in Singapore to accelerate precision fermentation startups - ScaleUp Bio Pte LtdScaleUp Bio plans to establish two facilities in Singapore to accelerate precision fermentation startups. This indicates the company is expanding its physical footprint in Singapore to support and accelerate the growth of precision fermentation ventures.
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Ownership & investors 2
| parent | ADM and Nurasa |
| investor | Fusionopolis Ventures Pte. Ltd |
Partners & deals 5
| counterparty | Fusionopolis Ventures Pte. Ltd. (joined ADM as a shareholder) …Fusionopolis Ventures Pte. Ltd. joined ADM as a shareholder in March 2026 to support the company's growth as a precision fermentation CDMO.… |
| joint venture | Singapore (two facilities at 21 Tuas West Drive …Singapore (two facilities at 21 Tuas West Drive, #02-01A). Ownership/investors: a joint venture of ADM and Nurasa (wholly owned by Temasek); ADM announced the ScaleUp Bio JV in 2022, an… |
| joint venture | They publicly announce partnerships …scalable manufacturing. They publicly announce partnerships and growth news, including a joint venture with ADM and Temasek’s Asia Sustainable Foods Platform and plans to open two dedicated pr… |
| manufacturing partner | ScaleUp Bio Pte Ltd …esearch to commercialization, with a strong emphasis on fermentation-based production and contract manufacturing support.
- ** ** — ScaleUp Bio Pte Ltd is a collaboration-driven biotech company that… |
| off-taker / supply agreement | Flexible MOQs based on optimized unit economics …lities.
- Custom Manufacturing: Flexible MOQs based on optimized unit economics for early offtake.
Capabilities and differentiators:
- State-of-the-art fermentation facilities.
- Expert… |
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