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Ogi Bio Ltd

Low-cost Automation for microbial culturing Home - gi Bio

Give yourself more time to focus on the interesting innovation questions by removing the time-intensive repetitive tasks from microbial culturing

CRN
SC654285
Founded
2020
Age
6

Overview

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Legal name
OGI BIO LTD
Region
Scotland
Registered address
FLOOR 3, 1-4
ATHOLL CRESCENT
EDINBURGH
SCOTLAND
EH3 8HA
Insolvency history
No

Latest accounts

Financial period: 1 Apr 2024 to 31 Mar 2025

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Turnover
Unknown
Profit / Loss
Unknown
Employees
12

Company events

Reference milestones and recent Companies House filing stream events.

15 events
30 Sep
2027

Accounts due

Accounts Due

Next accounts due date

25 Feb
2027

Confirmation statement due

Confirmation Due

Next confirmation statement due date

17 Jun
2026

Resolution

Resolution

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10 Jun
2026

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Incorporation

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2026

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09 Jun
2026

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Officers

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11 Feb
2026

Confirmation statement filed

Confirmation

Last confirmation statement made up date

31 Dec
2025

Accounts filed

Accounts

Last accounts made up date

20 Feb
2025

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Confirmation-statement

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2025

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2025

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13 Nov
2024

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13 Nov
2024

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2024

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12 Feb
2020

Incorporated

Inception

Company registered at Companies House

Spinout profile

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Company description

OGI Bio develops a device designed to automate microbial culturing.

Company is focused on innovation in microbioreactor market. Focusing 1st on affordable microbioreactors and continuing to innovate in the sector, by for example developing in situ bioreactor imaging capabilities. Company is expected to start employing people on 1st October 2020.

Project impact

The company received 250K from Innovate UK and won the Edge competition in 2020.

The company has been awarded an initial £250k Innovate UK grant for one year to ready its market position. Since then, it secured an additional £1.5M investor funding, grew to 10 employees, and is selling its affordable and retrofittable micro bioreactors (expected to reach cash-positive status within the next 4-6 months).

The company is currently in beta testing phase of its first product.

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Public funding

2 awards
First funded
2020
Funded years
2020, 2021
Age at first award
0 years

Projects

2021 Collaborative R&D Lead participant

OGI Bio Follow on Fund - COVID Resilience Fund

1 Dec 2021 to 31 Jan 2022

Awarded
£36,517
Total cost £36,517

In the microbiology sector, early stage R&D involves large amounts of manually culturing microbial samples. This is inefficient for companies, who would like to automate, but existing automation is expensive and tailored for mammalian cultures. Furthermore, the current method for estimating microbial growth doesn't provide sufficient information for indus...

2020 Study Lead participant

OGI - Follow on fund application

1 Nov 2020 to 31 Jan 2022

Awarded
£174,835
Total cost £249,763

In the microbiology sector, early stage R&D involves large amounts of manually culturing microbial samples. This is inefficient for companies, who would like to automate, but existing automation is expensive and tailored for mammalian cultures. Furthermore, the current method for estimating microbial growth doesn't provide sufficient information for indus...

Product types

Collaborative R&D Study