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Project cooperationUpdated on 8 September 2026

i-ALE microbial strain improvements

Commercial Champion - i-ALE project at i-ALE (part of Aalto University)

Helsinki, Finland

About

As part of Aalto Univeristy (Helsinki), the Intelligent ALE team obtained significant grant funding to push it’s technology to commercialization. The i-ALE project runs from June '26 to Feb '28 and will be improving 6 to 9 microbial strains throughout. 

We are looking for commercial partners with real world use cases that can result in significant value creation. 

An ideal use case has a context in which i-ALE's advantages can be leveraged:  

  • The genetic architecture is unknown, and/or  

  • The synthesis pathways are complex, and/or  

  • The interesting features are not (or inversely) linked to cell fitness, and/or  

  • Screening large numbers of outcomes is difficult and expensive, and/or  

  • A non-GMO label is desirable 

Commercial partners don’t need to provide funding. Partners can purchase the improved strain (result) after the project but are in no obligation to do so.

Stage

  • Execution

Type

  • Research
  • Technical
  • Sales/Distribution

Organisation

i-ALE (part of Aalto University)

Startup

Helsinki, Finland

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