Invert

Invert

Biomanufacturing technology to produce materials

Overview

InvertBio uses biology to produce materials and chemicals for industries that rely on physical inputs, offering biomanufacturing methods that enable greener, scalable production. Biological systems perform the making through bioprocesses like fermentation and enzyme pathways, turning living organisms into practical inputs produced more sustainably. Unlike traditional manufacturing, it emphasizes sustainable, scalable bio-based production to cut environmental impact and costs for manufacturing, agriculture, and pharmaceuticals. Its goal is to help industries transition to greener, cost-effective production by supplying biology-based materials and services that meet growing demand.

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Significant Headcount Growth

About Invert

Simplify's Rating
Why Invert is rated
B-
Rated B on Competitive Edge
Rated B on Growth Potential
Rated C on Differentiation

Industries

Industrial & Manufacturing

Biotechnology

Company Size

11-50

Company Stage

Early VC

Total Funding

$20.3M

Headquarters

San Francisco, California

Founded

2021

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What believers are saying

  • Invert filed a $20.1 million exempt offering in 2024, showing investor willingness to fund expansion.
  • Its July 2026 blog and case studies signal active shipping, not a dormant software startup.
  • Biomanufacturers need faster lot decisions, and Invert’s live yield prediction shortens release delays.

What critics are saying

  • Benchling, Scispot, and New Wave Biotech attack Invert’s bioprocess software wedge in 2026.
  • The company’s July 2026 growth narrative centers on simulated lots, not disclosed customer outcomes.
  • A weak conversion cycle before 2027 would burn the $20.1 million raise and stall platform expansion.

What makes Invert unique

  • Invert Assist launched May 7, 2026 with transparent, traceable, code-backed bioprocess analysis.
  • Invert’s July 2026 case study connects OPC-UA/DA equipment, ELNs, and LIMS across 2L–200L sites.
  • Invert claims domain-specific soft sensors from in-line signals, not generic ELN or historian tooling.

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Funding

Total Funding

$20.3M

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Industry Average

Funded Over

2 Rounds

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Benefits

Remote Work Options

Unlimited Paid Time Off

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Headcount

6 month growth

0%

1 year growth

5%

2 year growth

16%
Invert
Jul 21st, 2026
Using in-line signals to predict viable-cell yield across iPSC-derived production lots.

Using in-line signals to predict viable-cell yield across iPSC-derived production lots. Invert Team July 21, 2026 Across 16 simulated iPSC-derived production lots, Invert, Inc. used Invert Assist to infer each lot's viable-cell count live from in-line signals, and traced the lot swing to when the differentiation switch is triggered. Here's Invert Assist working through it: reading all 16 lots as one dataset, inferring viable cells per lot from the reactor signals, and ranking what actually moved yield. It's interactive; give it a second to think. Assist reads all 16 iPSC-derived production lots as one dataset, infers viable cells per lot from in-line signals to within about 5-10% on lots it never trained on, and ranks the differentiation-trigger timing above every early process signal. Illustrative example, simulated data. In cell therapy PD you already know that some lots have low yields, and the explanation for these low yields is donor-to-donor variability. The problem is that the signal confirming this variability often doesn't appear until the post-harvest release assay, days or weeks after any intervention is possible. When donor material, medium, and feed are held consistent across lots, donor variability becomes a much less plausible explanation. In this illustrative case study, Invert, Inc. used simulated data from 16 iPSC-derived production lots on the same platform to build and test a soft sensor for viable-cell count and determine which controllable process variable best explained the yield differences between lots. Donor material, medium, and feed were held consistent, while differentiation-trigger timing was varied deliberately; viable-cell yield ranged from about 1.35 to 4.68 x10[9] cells per lot, with the target switch from expansion to differentiation occurring near 120 hours. In its simulation, one lot was switched 48 hours late. Given the extra time, the cell count kept growing in expansion medium, overshot, then crashed once the switch finally came. That lot harvested at about 1.35 x10[9] cells against the expected >4 x10[9] cells for the on-time lots. The in-line soft sensor reported 1.51 x10[9] cells at harvest, already below the 2.50 x10[9] cells release floor, and about 60 hours before the assay confirmation. What Assist did to catch the differentiation switch trigger point. Invert, Inc. used Invert to consolidate the datasets from the 16 lots: the reactor signals (capacitance, glucose, lactate), the daily cytometry, and the LIMS release count. From those in-line signals alone, Assist built a model to predict final harvest viable-cell count within about 5-10% of the assay result. What this means for you. Using Invert Assist, you can easily model your process to estimate the harvest viable-cell count while the run is still going, not days after harvest, so a lot with a poor viability trajectory is something you can still catch. Because the analysis lives as code, the estimation is reproducible and consistent for every run and your colleagues can rerun it against their own lot. In addition to the ability to respond to and adjust poor growing cells, Invert provides a shared data and analysis layer that makes this analysis repeatable across scientists, studies, and future lot analyses. Figures here are from a simulated 16-lot dataset, shown as one illustrative example, not real data or a benchmark. See what Assist finds in your own lots

Intelligence360 News
Jul 24th, 2024
Invert Has Filed A Notice Of An Exempt Offering Of Securities To Raise $20,100,000.00 In New Equity Investment.

Invert has filed a notice of an exempt offering of securities to raise $20,100,000.00 in New Equity Investment. Invert has filed a notice of an exempt offering of securities to raise $20,100,000.00 in New Equity Investment.According to filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Invert is raising up to $20,100,000.00 in new funding. Sources indicate that as part of senior management Chief Executive Officer, Martin Permin played a key role in securing the recent investment and it will aid in aggressively expanding the company, as well as broaden and accelerate product development.About InvertInvert builds software for bioprocessing. With Invert, your team has full transparency into all your bioprocess data from lab to production, including full process traceability from upstream to formulation. Your team will save time juggling manual data, get to insights faster, and collaborate seamlessly across teams and partners

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
Jul 13th, 2024
SEC FORM D

The Securities and Exchange Commission has not necessarily reviewed the information in this filing and has not determined if it is accurate and complete.The reader should not assume that the information is accurate and complete.

Forbes
Jul 24th, 2023
There Is No Problem Biology Can'T Solve…Except For Economics

Reptile8488 (Canva)Do you remember when the first fully electric vehicles came out in the early 2000s, and we all said, "Neat, but where are you going to plug it in?" Now—pause for emphasis—a full two decades later—electric vehicles are starting to become commonplace, but they still only account for about 1% of US auto sales.Electricity is cool, as long as it doesn't come from burning coal, but what if our fuel sources could be not only carbon neutral but actually carbon negative? That is the promise of biology.Yeast, bacteria, plants, and algae can use a huge variety of fuel sources—sugar, organic waste, and even greenhouse gases – to produce molecules that we can use for fuel, medicine, plastics, building materials, clothing, cosmetics, and more."It requires a bunch of tinkering and some cell engineering. But you can get [microorganisms] to consume basically anything and make basically anything," said Joshua Lachter, Co-Founder of Synonym Bio, a financing and development platform for biomanufacturing. "That's the idea, the hope, and the dream.". SynBioBetaSynthetic biologists at universities and companies around the world have shown that we can use biomanufacturing to produce hundreds of materials that are currently unsustainably sourced. So, what's the hold-up?For electric vehicles to become more ubiquitous, two shifts have occurred: One in economics, fuel prices went up, and the cost of manufacturing electric vehicles went down; One in infrastructure, EV charging stations popped up everywhere from condos to coffee shops.In order for biomanufacturing to reach its full potential, we have to build an infrastructure, and it's got to be cheap

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