Technology licensing
We license. You produce.
Your platform for bio-manufacturing: our strain, process package and support. Produce in your own plant, or at a CDMO near you that we manage.
What is technology licensing?
We transfer our technology to you: the production strain, the process package and our support. You produce in your own plant, or Fooditive manages production for you at a CDMO near your factory.
Either way, the ingredient is made close to your market. You control cost and supply.
How licensing worksProduction
Two ways to produce
The challenge
The scale-up gap
In precision fermentation, the barrier is rarely biology. It is scale: strains that work in the lab often fail in industrial tanks.
Regulation adds years. A GRAS conclusion or a Novel Food authorisation needs multi-year toxicology studies and major investment.
Licensing a platform that has done this work lets you start where we are today.
The solution
Two flagships to license now, three more by project
How licensing works
Three steps to your own production
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Evaluation
You validate the ingredient specs in your own application labs, and review the regulatory dossier summaries with your quality team.
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Development
We agree a scoped technology transfer. Our team works with yours from pilot runs to scale-up in your plant.
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Commercial licence
You produce under licence, near your market, and supply your own brands or customers.
The licensing package
What you receive
A white box: you see how it works.
You get the knowledge to run and troubleshoot the process yourself. That is honest tech transfer.
Co-development
Built around your market
For ingredient companies that want to grow their portfolio, we act as an innovation partner.
We can adapt our platform to express new targets, or tune functions that matter in your market.
Licensing questions
Do you sell the ingredient, or license the technology?
We license the technology. You produce in your own plant, or Fooditive manages production for you at a contract manufacturer (CDMO) near your factory. Either way, the ingredient is made close to you.
How much do we learn about the process?
Everything you need. It is a “white box” transfer: you receive the strain, the procedures and the process knowledge your engineers need to run and troubleshoot the process.
Can we test before we commit?
Yes. Through our sample and pilot access programme you test the ingredient in your own labs, and review the dossier summaries before any licence is signed.
Which technologies can be licensed today?
All of them: 5-KDF, non-animal casein, bee-free honey, the FAOX-C enzyme and our next-gen ingredients. For non-animal casein, GRAS notices were submitted to FDA in February 2026.
What is the U.S. regulatory status of 5-KDF?
Self-affirmed GRAS (2024, independent expert panel). GRAS notice GRN 1326 submitted to FDA on 29 January 2026.
Start with a scoped conversation.
Tell us your product, market and capacity. We'll propose the right first step.