Insempra
Insempra is a synbio startup using precision fermentation to create sustainable, high-performance ingredients and fibers for the food, beauty and clothing industry.
Founded by Jens Klein, who previously founded AMSilk, the team and him raised €15M in seed funding to scale production and bring bio-based lipids, fibers, and functional ingredients to market.
Area
500m²
Location
Munich, DE
Status
Completed
Project highlights
SLA provides an end-to-end service for projects, starting with understanding the workflow of our clients to handing over an operational facility.
Discover
From August 2021 on we were doing workshops with the Insempra team to discover and specify their ambitious lab plans.
Discovery Workshop
In the discovery workshops we identify and understand the requirement of our clients’ teams today and in the next few years. From this lab vision and the requirement analysis, we can develop an ideal, scalable work environment.
Feasibility and Planning
We evaluated 4 locations, visited them, made 360° Tours, floor layouts, and finally estimated the costs of construction and furnishing them.
Building labs from scratch is both expensive and can take up to 9-12 months, but you can only have an informed decision after having created a detailed plan – even if it might never be realized.
IZB Munich
Our mission is to find the fastest way to get a lab operational. By chance, a perfectly suited lab became available at IZB and all previous construction planning could be skipped.
Now we focused on simply defining an ideal zoning and machine layout. After a few iterations, we had the perfect setup and the team of Insempra took care of moving in in January 2022.