SilicoBio
Profile
SilicoBio is a privately held KAIST faculty startup (South Korea) developing precision-fermentation cell factory platforms to scale microbial foods and functional ingredients (including next-generation proteins and lutein) from systems metabolic engineering to industrial-scale fermentation, scale-up, downstream processing, product development, and pilot production. It was founded in June 2025 and is active as of 2026 (multiple 2026 LinkedIn updates). Employees: 4 (company size 1–10). Key people: Sang Yup Lee (Founder/CTO) and Sol Choi (CEO). Partners/customers named: CJ BIO (personnel), GS칼텍스, and Dankook University via a KEIT-funded consortium for industrial microbial lutein production. Latest 2025–2026 developments include publishing microbial food industrialization and platform roadmaps in One Earth (Aug 2026) and pursuing microbial lutein process commercialization through the GS칼텍스 consortium. Headquarters/revenue/capacity, ownership/stock listing, and funding amounts are not provided in the search results.
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- KAIST opens the era of industrial-scale microbial foods, proposing growth — 2026-08-31
- “고기 대신 미생물, 미래 먹거리 뜬다”…KAIST, 차세대 단백질 ‘산업화 전략’ 제시 - 헤럴드경제 — 2026-08-31
- KAIST researchers and faculty startup SilicoBio have published a comprehensive industrialization roadmap for microbial foods, identifying manufacturing scale-up, downstream processing costs, regulatory readiness, and integrated platform design as the critical barriers to … | SilicoBio — 2026-09-03
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- KAIST Advances Development of Microbial Cell Factories — 2026-07-14
- An early version of the SilicoBio homepage is now online. I co-founded SilicoBio last year as a faculty startup at KAIST. | Sang Yup Lee — 2026-09-05
- [D-BIZ 사이언스] KAIST-실리코바이오, 미생물 식품 ‘상용화 로드맵’ 제시… 글로벌 바이오제조 플랫폼 선점 나선다 < 포토 < 경제·사회 < 라이프 < 기사본문 - 데일리비즈온 — 2026-08-31
- Our paper on “Microbial foods as scalable platforms toward a circular protein economy for sustainable nutrition” has just been published in One Earth. Great work by my teams at KAIST and the … | SilicoBio — 2026-09-03
- Industry
- Bioprocess equipment, Food ingredients
- Topics
- Vitamins, carotenoids & nutraceutical actives
- Role
- Research / RTO — “…sonnel), GS칼텍스, and Dankook University via a KEIT-funded consortium for industrial microbial lutein production…”
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News & status 6
- 2025-06 Latest status: The company was founded as a KAIST faculty startup in June 2025. ↗ ↗ ↗
- 2026-08-31 미생물 식품 ‘산업화 시대’ 연다…차세대 단백질 시장 성장 전략 제안SilicoBio is a KAIST-founded university startup focused on industrializing microbial-based proteins and functional ingredients by converting lab-scale tech into scalable manufacturing, scale-up, and productization, aligning with the integrated …
- 2026-08-30 KAIST researchers map path from lab to market for microbial food proteins - The Herald BusinessSilico Bio participated in KAIST’s study and is building a platform to connect microbial-based proteins with functional food ingredients through industrial-scale fermentation, scale-up, and product development, guided by the study’s manufacturing readiness …
- 2026-08-31 [D-BIZ 사이언스] KAIST-실리코바이오, 미생물 식품 ‘상용화 로드맵’ 제시… 글로벌 바이오제조 플랫폼 선점 나선다 < 포토 < 경제·사회 < 라이프 < 기사본문 - 데일리비즈온SilicoBio, a KAIST-affiliated faculty startup, is developing an industrialized microbial food production platform that combines systems metabolic engineering with scalable fermentation processes to drive commercialization and global biomanufacturing …
- 2026-07-30 Daebong LS seeks to overcome ‘chronic limitations’ via precision fermented luteinSilicoBio is part of a collaborative project with Daebong LS, GS Caltex, and Dankook University to advance lutein production technology using biomanufacturing techniques and source strains developed by Professor Lee’s KAIST team.
- 2026-09-02 KAIST and startup SilicoBio opens the era of industrial-scale microbial foods - They proposing growth strategies for the next-generation protein marketSilicoBio, a KAIST faculty startup, collaborated with KAIST researchers to advance an industrialization strategy for microbial foods, aiming to connect laboratory microbial technologies to large-scale production and markets. The company is positioned to build …
- 2026-08-31 [Sci-Tech NOW] GIST and KAIST develop hybrid polymer that stores light chirality information - DongA ScienceSilicoBio Co., Ltd. is collaborating with KAIST on a study analyzed by Distinguished Professor Sang Yup Lee to map success conditions for the microbial food industry, focusing on integrated manufacturing, regulatory readiness, and market demands.
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