Our Smart Labs

Discover the Labs we've built and the story behind them.

air up
For air up's new Headquarter in Munich, we planned a Flavor Lab and Makerspace, allowing them to further refine flavors and rapidly prototype their scent-based bottle system.
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Farmless
Within less than 2 months (and completely remote), we got Farmless' new bioprocessing lab in the Netherlands operational, planning the layout and equipping it with everything from machinery to consumables.
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Formo
Formo Bio is a food biotech company on the mission to bring the next generation of sustainable, healthy, and equitable dairy products to consumers.
We teamed up with Formo to build a new R&D Lab & ambitious Bioreactor pilot plant in Frankfurt, fully planned and executed in less than 6 months.
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Planet A Foods
Planet A Foods produces cocoa-free chocolate - they call it Nocoa - based on precision fermentation of local, natural ingredients.
In under 6 months, we built a new headquarter for Planet A Foods in Munich.
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Vly Foods Vision
Within the iconic historical building of Alte Post in Berlin Neukölln, we designed a vision for the new vly headquarters, including a prototyping lab and public Future Food Café where everyone could experience the latest innovations in food-tech.
Although we didn't get to build this lab, we are excited to share our design for this extraordinary space.
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Insempra
Insempra is a synbio startup enabling businesses to make better, more sustainable products.
Using precision fermentation, the company is developing a range of products for various applications in the food & nutrition, beauty and personal care as well as fibers & materials markets.
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Connectivity Space Berlin
We designed this Lab in Berlin to connect Startups, Innovators and Lab Tech Systems.
With 7 amazing companies on site, we deployed the latest prototypes and products into the Lab in a one-week Sprint in June 2021.
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The Netflix Labs
In 2019, we joined Netflix's "Biohackers" crew on their quest to create a breathtaking, scientifically accurate and inspiring series.
We designed the Lab sets with the goal to build the most futuristic, automated and "sexy" laboratories imaginable.
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Biokitchen
We planned, financed and constructed Germany’s first open S1 Biotech Lab to serve early-stage deep-tech startups at the intersection of AI, Robotics and Synthetic Biology.
The Biokitchen was built with a team of 20 people within a week and opened to the public in May 2018.
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[X] Lab of the Future
The very first Lab we created at the UnternehmerTUM was built up for the TECHFEST 2016 hackathon to host the AstraZeneca "Lab of the Future" Challenge.
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Formo Bio
Formo Bio is a food biotech company on the mission to bring the next generation of sustainable, healthy, and equitable dairy products to consumers.

At the end of 2021 Formo teamed up with the Smart Lab Architects to build a new Lab supporting their ambitious growth plans.
- The massive 950m² Biotech Lab features a full R&D lab as well as a Bioreactor pilot plant,in which Formo will create animal-free milk proteins
  
  The whole facility was planned, equipped, and even "spontaneously" merged with its predecessor in a project of under 6 months.
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Planet A Foods
Planet A Foods produces cocoa-free, sustainable chocolate called Nocoa with natural ingredients.

The Smart Lab Architects built an amazing Chocolate Factory and office space in Munich - planned and executed in just a matter of months.
- The Planet A Foods Lab is designed to accommodate for both constant product development and analytics, as well as small scale production of their cocoa-free chocolate.
  
  We've built this Lab and the neighboring office in a one-week sprint together with the Planet A Foods team in April 2022.
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Connectivity Space Berlin
We designed this lab in Berlin to connect startups, innovators and all our systems amongst each other.
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From an empty room to a Smart Lab in just 5 days!
- The Connectivity Space Berlin is home to the latest connected lab tech. With 7 amazing companies we deployed their latest prototypes and products into the lab in a one-week sprint in June 2021.
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The Netflix Labs
In 2019 we joined the Netflix's "Biohackers" crew on their quest to create a breathtaking, scientifically accurate and inspiring series.

A medical student enters a top German university on a secret mission to uncover a conspiracy linking a family tragedy to a visionary biology professor...
- We helped making Biohackers' story as technologically accurate as possible and connected the directors with lab industry experts to create the modern labs and DIY biohacker space featured in the 2019 Netflix series.
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  "Professor's" Private Lab
  In the Netflix series Biohackers, a biotech professor is operating a secret private lab in her basement. We designed this lab with the goal to build the most futuristic, automated and sexy laboratory one could imagine.
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  Jasper's Biohackspace
  Another protagonist of the Netflix series Biohackers, Jasper, has also built a private lab with only modest resources. We reached out to our friends from the biohacking community and got them involved in creating this "Biohackspace", a place filled with simple, cheap and nonetheless effective DIY lab equipment.
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[X] Biokitchen
We planned, financed and constructed Germany’s first open S1 Biotech Lab to serve early-stage startups.
During our sprint at TU Munich, we invented and patented 6 lab appliances.
- [X] Biokitchen
  UnternehmerTUM [x] was founded in late 2016 with the goal to combine AI, Robotics and Synthetic Biology and create deep tech startups at those intersections.
  To provide these startups with a lab to begin their research in, we opened Germany's first open biolab - the [x] Biokitchen.
  
  The Biokitchen was planned in early 2018, built with a team of 20 people within a week in April and opened to the public in May 2018.
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- [X] Lab of the future
  The very first lab we created at the UnternehmerTUM was built up for the TECHFEST 2016 to host the AstraZeneca "Lab of the Future" Challenge.
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On the drawing board!

Take a sneak peak at our ongoing projects

Invitris Phage Lab
We are currently planning a new Lab for Invitris in Munich, who are developing a cell-free production system for phages to combat multi-resistant bacteria - a health crisis that will soon be more dangerous and deadly than cancer.
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Planqc & TUM Quantum Lab
For Planqc, we transform a 40 year old hardware store into a high-end Laser Lab. Here, Planqc will shrink their room-scale Quantum Computer into a regular server rack.
The TUM Venture Labs will also move in, creating Munich’s Quantum Startup Hub.
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BioM
We did a feasibility study for the MAxL (Munich Accelerator Life Sciences & Medicine) incubator project led by BioM.
This Bavarian infrastructure project for pre-seed projects and early-stage start-ups has consequently been funded with 8.5 million euros and is now being realized.
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Carbon Atlantis
We are currently planning and building a new lab, office and makerspace for Carbon Atlantis in Munich to support them on their mission to develop new ways of capturing carbon from the air.
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Nosh Biofoods
Nosh Biofoods support healthy, non-GMO protein to get the alt-protein industry off the ground. And we support Nosh to scale into a new lab space in Berlin Adlershof, asap.
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McPhy Hydrogen Testlab
We've partnered up with McPhy to build a testing facility for their sustainable low-carbon hydrogen production systems, inside a beautiful hall in Berlin.
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You?
The next futuristic Smart Lab could be yours - Contact us and let's find out!
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