Swedish AI project aims to cut the cost of biomanufacturing

Biotech company Curve and AI specialist Digital Tvilling are partnering to build a production system in which every fermentation run makes the next one cheaper. The goal is to lower the cost of precision fermentation for proteins, food ingredients, and functional additives, an area where price remains the main barrier to replacing inputs from agriculture and animal farming. The first integrated version is set to be demonstrated in 2026.

Today, bioproduction relies heavily on manual expertise developed through years of process knowledge. Only a small fraction of that knowledge is captured at scale, making it difficult to achieve what is required for large-scale, low-margin production. Swedish biotech company Curve and AI and digital twin specialist Digital Tvilling AB today announce a partnership to build an integrated system for intelligent, scalable biomanufacturing, aimed at fundamentally reducing the cost of precision fermentation, including proteins, novel foods, and functional ingredients. Together, they seek to establish a more sustainable and resilient value chain.

The core insight driving the partnership is that bioprocess data is simultaneously the most valuable and the most underutilised asset in the industry. Generating this data is expensive, and it often remains siloed in different systems with incompatible formats. Curve and Digital Tvilling are building the infrastructure to unlock and compound this information.

Every bioreactor gets a digital twin, a live mirror of what is happening inside the vessel. Sensors, flows, temperatures, pressures, feed rates, recipes. Not just data on a screen, but a local control room that gives operators real-time decision support.

“Together, we are building a new kind of biomanufacturing platform where every production run contributes to making the system smarter, more efficient, and more scalable,” says Jacob Peterson, CEO and co-founder of Curve.

“By turning fragmented bioprocess data into a secure, shared learning network, we can continuously improve performance across deployments while reducing cost and complexity,” continues Elsa Axby, Pilot Plant Biotechnician and Project Manager at Curve.

The partnership is a joint effort where both companies contribute proprietary technology. Curve brings its next-generation bioproduction system for precision fermentation and continuous data collection, while Digital Tvilling contributes graph-based modelling, agentic AI, and cross-organisational data infrastructure. Together, the companies are developing an integrated platform where hardware and software are designed to evolve together. The result is a bioproduction system that becomes smarter and more cost efficient with every batch, customer, and deployment.

“Many of our clients operate in environments where systems and operational processes have evolved over decades. Here, we have the opportunity to build a new kind of integrated solution from the ground up, where observability, traceability, and adaptive intelligence are native capabilities from day one,” says Filip Åsblom, CTO and co-founder of Digital Tvilling AB.

The collaboration aims to develop a bioprocess-specific graph data model that captures the full chain from strain identity to production outcomes, together with a live data pipeline integrating Curve’s sensor-equipped systems into the software platform. Initial development work is already underway, with the first integrated platform capabilities expected to be demonstrated in 2026.

From left: Filip Åsblom, CTO and Niklas Post, CEO at Digital Tvilling. Jacob Schaldemoste Peterson, CEO at Curve.

Elsa Axby, Pilot Plant Biotechnician and Project Manager at Curve.

About Curve Biotech AB

Curve is a Swedish biotech company revolutionizing biomanufacturing beyond pharma through precision fermentation. Simplifying for producers to adopt biomanufacturing by offering an AI-powered intelligence layer to hardware that reduces costs and optimizes processes for production of sustainable microbial protein and functional ingredients. Read more at curvebio.tech.

About Digital Tvilling AB

Digital Tvilling is a Swedish software and advisory company specializing in digital twins, AI, and operational intelligence for complex industrial and public sector environments. The company helps organizations connect fragmented data, systems, and expertise into integrated operational models that support observability, decision-making, and continuous improvement.