Enzymaster
EMEA
Dusseldorf
,
Germany
Scaleup
FOUNDED
2013
HEADCOUNT
2-20
FUNDING
Series C
Keywords:
enzymes, biocatalysis, directed_evolution, AI/ML
BUSINESS
Enzymaster (Ningbo) Bio-Engineering Co., Ltd. is a Chinese biocatalysis company founded in 2013 as a Sino-foreign joint venture, headquartered in Ningbo, China with an international business unit in Düsseldorf, Germany. The company has approximately 240 employees in total and has raised through Series C funding (investors include Xiamen C&D Corporation); it serves pharma, fine chemical, and consumer goods industries with enzyme products and custom biocatalytic manufacturing.
BIOTECH INVOLVEMENT
Core: enzyme engineering and biocatalysis platform for green manufacturing. Enzymaster's core capabilities are directed evolution and computational enzyme engineering (via proprietary BioEngine® and BioNavigator® platforms), strain engineering, fermentation process development, and commercial-scale biocatalytic production of chiral building blocks and API intermediates. The company provides end-to-end services from enzyme screening and optimization through to hundred- and thousand-ton scale manufacturing.
TECHNOLOGY PLATFORM
Enzyme engineering; biocatalysis
PRIMARY PRODUCTS
Custom enzymes (e.g., hydantoinases, halohydrin dehalogenases) for API and chemical production