Innovating Cell Culture for a Sustainable Future
As scientists and innovators, we envision a future where scientific achievement and environmental values harmonize perfectly. Yet today, we all navigate systems designed for a bygone era of unlimited resources and minimal environmental consciousness.
Friday Biotech embodies what its name represents: turning constraints into freedom, protocols into creativity, and lab work into joy. Explore how our technology turns sustainability from obligation into inspiration.
"We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them." — Albert Einstein
About
Remember an era not so long ago? Friday used to mark the boundary between work and leisure, obligation and creativity. It was a weekday of lightness and joy when we shed our professional skins, diving into a brief break before the cycle reset on Monday. Trapped in the repetitive pattern of our lives, we sought comfort in our bubbles to flee from the many contradictions brought by the ever-fast-changing world.I dream of a world where every day feels like Friday, where telling children about our current reality like a relic. A world that transcends outdated concepts and our visions, where our lives and ideas resonate, creating meaningful connections in a world of increasing polarization. At Friday, we're not waiting for some far-off future to bridge these divides. We are here to build up a future, where the purpose of innovation is not only to disrupt, but to inspire and to include.FRIDAY Biotech, named after our vision of everyday inspiration, was found to develop sustainable, cost-effective solutions in cell culture technology that not only advance scientific research but also inspire a new way of thinking about biotechnology's role in society. From our innovative concept bioreactor to groundbreaking serum replacement technologies. We're not just creating products; we're cultivating a mindset. One where sustainability isn't just a buzzword, but a rhythm we dance to. Where innovation means everyone gets an invitation to the party of progress.Sounds too abstract? Discover how our innovation can transform your work and business - explore our solutions to join the revolution. :-)Be part of our Friday community - as friends, partners, customers, or investors. But most importantly, be Fridayers!Get in touch!Jianan Fu
Founder and CEO
Contact
Thierschstrasse 20
80538 München
Germany[email protected]
Cell Culture Media on Demand
Let's make cell culture simple, sustainable, and ready when you are. Turning tablets into fresh media in a few minutes. Cell Culture Media at the push of a Button. No cold chain. No plastic waste.
Pending patents
JUICI - Reinventing
cultivated food
A consortium by Friday and FBN (Leibniz Institute for Farm Animal Biology) to revolutionize cultivated fat.
From €25M Industrial Facilities to €250K Local Production - transforming cultivated meat from outdated industrial concept to sustainable reality
Made in Rostock, Germany, 2024
Cell Culture Media on Demand
Let's make cell culture simple, sustainable, and ready when you are. Turning tablets into fresh media in a few minutes. Cell Culture Media at the push of a Button. No cold chain. No plastic waste.
Pending patents
We question convenience in our daily lives - brewing coffee at home instead of buying takeouts, preparing meals rather than ordering delivery. Yet in our labs, we unquestioningly accept ready-to-use media as the only option. Why?
Traditional media solutions hide their true costs behind cold-chain logistics, storage infrastructure, waste management, and labor inefficiencies.
100+ million
liters of water are shipped around the world due to lack of alternatives
5,000+ tons
of plastic waste annually generated from pre-packaged liquid media
Massive energy
required for continuous cold chain maintenance during transport and storage of liquid media
Premium prices
inflatedby outsourcing the media preparation - paying $5 for a takeout that costs only $0.50 to make a coffee at home
Pending patents
Media on Demand
Optimal media preparation through ultrasonic dissolution
Compact design enables operation both in and outside laminar flow cabinets
Real-time pH, temperature and pressure monitoring
Automated sterile filtration and dispensing for standard 500 mL volumes
Flexible volume > 300 mL via Luer Lock connection
Clean-in-Place system with stainless steel reusable filters
Sterilization conforming to European medical device sterilization standards
Media Tablets
Binder-free technology - 100% original formulation
Perfect dosing precision through tablets - simply count rather than weigh
Superior stability - our tablets resist moisture and oxidation where powders rapidly degrade
No dust contamination risks across workspaces and between batches
Optimized for ultrasonic processing
JUICI - Reinventing
cultivated food
A consortium by Friday and FBN (Leibniz Institute for Farm Animal Biology) to revolutionize cultivated fat.
From €25M Industrial Facilities to €250K Local Production - transforming cultivated meat from outdated industrial concept to sustainable reality
Made in Rostock, Germany, 2024
Is cultured meat sustainable?
The paradigm of the past 150 years - cost reduction and productivity above all - cannot solve the problems it created.
Since the Victorian era, industrial production has pursued a single path: centralize and intensify -regardless of environmental and social costs cellular agriculture offers breakthrough science trapped within this outdated industrial mindset.
$3+ Billion
invested in end-products built on fundamentally unsustainable infrastructure.
€25+ Million
facilities will be required through ever-larger bioreactors - an unproven and likely impossible path for complex stem cell cultures
Centralization
requires massive upfront capital and continues to disconnect food from communities
80%
of production costs tied to culture media reveals a devastating flaw in cultivated meat's foundation
Strategy
Media-on-Demand System - directly addresses 80% cost barrier; increases sustainable value and enables on-site media preparation to reduce cost.
Classic media from the 1950s were designed for research, not food production. We include regional agricultural raw materials, eliminating unnecessary pharmaceutical-grade components while creating sustainable local supply chains.
We're replacing costly and variable umbilical cord cell harvesting with stable, immortalized cell lines specifically engineered for fat production.
Simplified, process-dedicated bioreactors reduce capital requirements by 60-70% while decreasing operator training from months to days - democratizing production capability beyond specialized facilities.
Fat-First Approach - Cultivated fat delivers immediate value with simpler requirements than muscle tissue. This provides critical flavor components in meat alternatives while enabling faster market entry and earlier revenue generation.
Achieved
Cultivated fat tissue built on €2.3M CELLZERO BMBF-project breakthroughs
Binder-free media-tablets and media on demand platform - one drawer of tablets instead of a cold room of liquid media!
Core patents application filed; function verified; LOIs available
Next
Cell line development and process optimization for low-cost environments
Customer testing program and commercial launch
Process-dedicated media and bioreactor for decentralized MSC culture process
OUR VISION - FROM INDUSTRIAL FACILITIES TO CELLULAR KITCHENS
Growing Cells Where Food is Needed
Cutting plastic und water waste
Reducing supply chain vulnerabilities
Creating the mouthfeel consumers demand (Juicy = JUICI)
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