AI-powered bioprocess monitoring

Ending the biological black box.

NanoFlux Bio is building an AI monitoring system for bioprocess development — a self-learning digital twin that predicts, monitors and optimises, feeding real-time, self-cleaning sensing.

Backed by DTU Skylab · Bio Innovation Institute · Copenhagen 2026
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The problem

Bioprocess teams are flying blind.

Inside the bioreactor, biology moves fast and information moves slow. Teams react hours too late, waste water on fouled sensors, and can't afford the analytics that would close the gap.

01

Data arrives too late

Off-line analytics come back 4–6 hours after sampling. By the time a problem shows up, the batch has already drifted.

02

Sensors foul, water is wasted

Probes clog mid-run, forcing manual CIP/SIP cycles — 150–200 L of WFI water per week, plus downtime and recalibration.

03

Advanced sensing is locked away

Metabolite monitoring costs €80K+ per line — out of reach for the majority of mid-size CDMOs and biotechs.

The result is a black box: teams that see their process hours too late, and pay in water, reactor time and failed batches to learn what a model could have told them.

The system

One optimised path to closed-loop monitoring.

NanoFlux is built in layers. Each is useful on its own, and each is funded by proof from the one before — so the vision is reached without a leap of faith. We are live at layer one.

MVP-A · NOW Layer 01

AI digital twin

A self-learning twin across 9 cell lines that predicts, monitors and optimises a bioprocess from the team's own batch data — calibrated in days, validated to under 10% model error. The intelligence core of everything above it. Live today.

NEXT Layer 02

Self-cleaning sensing hardware

Our own real-time sensing module feeds the twin live — measuring metabolites inline and ending both the off-line delay and the fouling that wastes water and downtime. Affordable where advanced sensing has been locked away.

THEN Layer 03

Self-learning at scale

Every process the system sees sharpens the models. The AI stops predicting from literature alone and starts learning from the field — getting more accurate, plant by plant, run by run.

VISION Layer 04

Closed-loop AI monitoring

Sensing, twin and learning in one platform: the system sees the process as it happens, predicts where it's heading, and adjusts in real time. The biological black box, finally open.

Layer one · live today

An AI digital twin you can run today.

Not a roadmap promise — a validated engine. It turns the batch data a team already has into a working, predictive model of their own process.

  • 01AI models learn each process from the client's own batch data — biomass, substrate, pH, dissolved O₂.
  • 02Predicts trajectories and de-risks scale-up, feeds and transfers in silico, before reactor time is spent.
  • 03Calibrated in days, not months — and self-learning, so every dataset sharpens the next prediction.
  • 04The intelligence layer the sensing hardware plugs into next.
9
cell lines modelled
CHO · HEK293 · E. coli · yeast · insect
<10%
model error (RMSE)
predicted vs. literature, all organisms
63
validated tests
automated suite, all passing
4
AI model families
mammalian · yeast · bacteria · insect

AI you can trust: every model parameter is sourced from peer-reviewed literature and stored with its references — auditable by design.

The engine

AI runs the whole system.

One self-learning twin doing three jobs at once — and getting smarter with every process it sees.

Predict

Before the run

Forecast biomass, substrate and metabolite trajectories before a single litre is inoculated — turning guesswork into a model.

Monitor

During the run

Real-time sensing feeds the twin live, so the process is seen as it happens — not four to six hours too late.

Optimise

Across every run

The AI recommends feeds, scale-up and corrections, and learns from every dataset to sharpen the next call.

Technology

Rigorous science. Clean engineering.

Bioreactor know-how built into software — modelled, tested, and traceable to the literature.

Mechanistic, not a black box

Kinetic ODE models for four organism families capture real biology — growth, substrate uptake, inhibition, oxygen transfer and pH — not just curve-fitting.

Auditable parameters

Every kinetic value is drawn from peer-reviewed studies and stored with its references and confidence level. The model can always show its work.

Validated by test

An automated suite of 63 tests holds the models to physiological bounds and under-10% error against literature, on every change.

Built to learn

A calibration engine fits the models to real experimental data, so the twin moves from literature priors to a team's actual process — and improves as data grows.

Team

Built between Copenhagen and Perth.

A founder team pairing bioprocess domain knowledge with software and AI engineering, backed by Denmark's leading deep-tech institutions.

AF

Alberto Fortes García

CEO & Co-Founder · Perth

Leads strategy, commercialisation and the Australian build-out, connecting NanoFlux to the bioprocess and life-science ecosystem.

MT

Miguel Ángel Tirado

CTO & Co-Founder · Copenhagen

Leads the AI digital-twin platform, model engineering and the sensing-hardware roadmap out of DTU Skylab.

In residence & advised at DTU Skylab Bio Innovation Institute Life Science Academy BII 2026 cohort

Let's open the black box.

Building in bioprocess, or working with teams who are? We'd like to hear from you.