Lemnisca builds software to predict how fermentation behaves at factory scale
The Bengaluru company is building AI software that models microbial fermentation, so manufacturers can scale a process without discovering its problems in production.
Lemnisca, a Bengaluru-based biomanufacturing software company, has developed a digital twin platform to predict how fermentation processes behave at factory scale. Founded in 2025 by CEO Pushkar Pendse and CTO Shilpa Nargund, the company aims to bridge the gap between laboratory and production environments where most industry losses occur.
Lemnisca's digital twin is an AI companion for fermentation, combining biology, reactor physics, and data to simulate how the process will behave under new conditions. The company claims its approach, which pairs wet-lab experimentation with computational modelling, cuts development timelines by up to 50%, improves operating efficiency by 25%, and accelerates the adoption of renewable and waste-carbon feedstocks.
However, these claims are based on the company's projections, and deployment data supporting them is not publicly available. The founders emphasize that biotechnology's success in making expensive molecules like insulin at thousands of dollars per kilogram has not translated to products that must sell for a few dollars per kilogram, making scale and predictability crucial.
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