Our Story

We found a world turning bio — with no tools to do it fast.

AjaxDNA was born from a real observation: biotechnology holds the key to transforming trillion-dollar industries, but the tools to engineer biology are too slow, too costly, and too unreliable. We're fixing that.

What we found when we looked at bioprocessing

$4,000M

Average cost per successful drug development — including the heavy toll of failures in late-stage preclinical and clinical trials.

12+ Years

The time it takes for a new biotech product to reach the market. Most of this time is lost in slow, manual, sequential wet-lab iterations.

<30% Yield

Typical production yield in fermentation and bioprocessing — far below theoretical maximum, and with high batch-to-batch instability.

€400–700/kg

Cost per kg of many fermented proteins today — making the shift to sustainable food production financially impossible for most producers.

Three critical problems. One integrated platform.

The Problem

Slow R&D Cycles

Each design-build-test iteration takes months in traditional wet labs. Researchers are stuck waiting for physical results before they can iterate.

→ 1000× faster R&D cycles by replacing sequential wet-lab runs with massive parallel in silico simulation and hardware validation.
The Problem

Scaling & Yields

Production yields in fermentation and bioprocessing are often below 30% of theoretical maximum. Optimization is expensive, slow, and largely guesswork.

⬆ We predict the optimal genotype, microbial consortia, and bioreactor media conditions for maximum yield, before wet-lab work begins.
The Problem

Biological Variability

Unexpected changes in microorganism activity cause failures at scale, inconsistent trials, regulatory rejections, and massive financial losses.

✓ Perturbance simulations across microbial consortia and GMO analyse community stability and productivity ensuring reliable microbial processes.

Layer by layer, we built what biotech was missing

Completed

Automatic Pipelines for Bioinformatics

We validated market fit by building easy-to-use interfaces for state-of-the-art bioinformatic protocols. Scientists could run complex analyses without deep computational expertise — proving the demand for better bioengineering tools.

Completed

Protein Engineering Automation

Automated pipelines for protein engineering — enabling precise modifications and optimisation of biological molecules. This laid the computational foundation for our digital twin platform.

Completed

Automated Metabolic Modeling

We automated metabolic model creation and FBA simulations — allowing exploration of what's biologically possible in any cell system before running a single experiment.

Upcoming

Complete Digital Cell Twin

All prior work converges into the first comprehensive, validated whole-cell digital twin. Predict exactly what happens to your organism after any genetic modification — not just what is possible, but what is expected.

Upcoming

LabOnAcell Platform

The definitive solution: hardware and software fully integrated. Patentable technology enabling thousands of parallel experiments and direct scale mapping to any production bioreactor.

Our Mission — AjaxDNA

Make biological engineering reliable

We create data to optimize microbiological processes in drug discovery, microbiology and biomanufacturing through cell programming

Scientists and entrepreneurs solving the same problem

Alejandro Atienza

Alejandro Atienza

CEO & Founder

Synthetic biology & technology management. Leads strategy, product vision, and the scientific direction of the AjaxDNA platform.

Juan Torralbo

Juan Torralbo

CTO

Bioinformatics & artificial intelligence. Architects the computational core — from metabolic modeling pipelines to the digital twin engine.

Amparo Solera

Amparo Solera

CMO

Chief marketing officer, designs strategies for communicating our science to the world, and go to market execution. Focuses on brand image and early-contact, top-of-funnel engagement.

Ready to stop guessing and start optimising?

Whether you're facing yield problems, bioreactor instability, or R&D cost pressure — let's talk about what AjaxDNA can do for your process.

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