Pitch: UK-based startup building an AI-powered enzyme discovery and design platform to upcycle feedstocks into bio-based ingredients for flavours, fragrances, cosmetics, and speciality chemicals.
Source: Scindo
ID card
- HQ: UK
- Founded: 2020
- Funding: £4M
- Last Funding: £4M seed (09/2025)
- Corporate investors: international food and beverage company Paulig
- Partnerships: Undisclosed specialty chemical manufacturers and Paulig
- Innovations: AI-powered enzyme discovery and design platform transforming renewable and upcycled feedstocks into bio-based molecules for food, fragrance, and cosmetic applications.
- Competitors: Arzeda (US), Enzymit (Israel), and Cradle (Switzerland), all developing AI-driven enzyme design platforms for sustainable ingredient production.
- Regulation: Ø
More insights
- In June 2021, Scindo won Givaudan’s Front-End Innovation Award.
- It recently raised £4M (September 2025) to expand its data infrastructure, wet-lab capacity, and team.
- Its full-stack platform combines advanced AI models with proprietary laboratory data to accelerate enzyme discovery and optimisation.
- Its first two enzymes target key flavour & fragrance building blocks and a cosmetic ingredient produced via cell-free biomanufacturing.
- It is advancing pilot-scale production through an undisclosed partnership, with a market launch expected within 12 months.
For Symrise
Why did we select the startup?
Scindo uses AI-driven enzyme engineering to transform renewable feedstocks into high-value molecules for flavours, fragrances, and cosmetics, providing sustainable alternatives to petrochemical-derived ingredients.
Why now?
With £4M in seed funding and growing collaboration from leaders such as Givaudan and Paulig, Scindo is scaling its enzymatic discovery engine and approaching first product launches.
Source: Scindo