Industrial Biotech
Bootcamp
Industrial biotech offers major potential for a sustainable future, but building successful startups in this field is complex and many struggle to reach the market. The Industrial Biotech Bootcamp, built by Biotech Booster and Planet B.io helps entrepreneurs navigate these challenges by giving them the tools, insights, and guidance to define their critical path to market.
This intensive program is exclusively designed for biotech startups: companies using enzymes and microorganisms to create biobased products from renewable raw materials or waste streams. The program supports ventures active in sectors such as chemicals, food and feed, detergents, paper and pulp, textiles, materials, and bioenergy. Through expert guidance, practical workshops, and a strong entrepreneurial network, participants strengthen their business strategy, validate market opportunities, and accelerate their path towards growth and investment.
Application status 2026: closed
8 intensive weeks
No program fee
4 expert modules
100% investor readiness
Interested?
Applications for the Industrial Biotech Bootcamp 2026 are closed. Email us to get notified when the next bootcamp opens.
About the program
The Industrial Biotech Bootcamp is an intensive 8-week programme structured around four intensive modules. You’ll work directly on your startup through hands-on and interactive in-person sessions, practical assignments, expert feedback, and peer learning. Each module concludes with a dinner alongside experienced industrial biotech entrepreneurs, creating valuable opportunities to expand your network through an informal setting.
Please note: This is not a passive program. Prepare for a high-intensity experience where you dedicate your time to actively translate your insights into real progress for your startup. Between sessions, you’ll complete homework, prepare assignments through pre-reading materials, and apply new insights to your business. Participants are expected to fully commit their time, energy, and focus throughout the 8-week program.
What you'll get
- Clear understanding of the critical path to market
- Learn directly from leading industrial biotech experts and industry insiders
- Get matched with a dedicated mentor for 8 weeks
- Access to curated network of deep tech specialists, entrepreneurs, and investors
- Join a cohort of fellow industrial biotech founders with shared experiences
- Connect with experienced entrepreneurs who have successfully scaled in industrial biotech
- Introductions to investors actively looking for early-stage industrial biotech opportunities
- Prepare for investor meetings with hands-on pitch coaching and real pitching opportunities
- Increase your visibility through the Biotech Booster and Planet B.io networks
- Financial support through the Kickstart Fund for lab and office facilities at Planet B.io
Application process
- Apply online: the application deadline has passed.
- Webinar & assignment: if shortlisted, you join a mandatory webinar and complete a short assignment.
- Pitch in Delft: finalists pitch in person on their startup and assignment.
Important dates:
This mandatory webinar on July 16 at 4 pm introduces the program in detail and explains the assignment that shortlisted startups will complete during the summer. Attendance and active participation are part of the selection process.
Details for the full application will be provided during the webinar.
The application process concludes with an in-person pitch in Delft on September 1st. Applicants will present a summary of their work and their assignment findings.
Projects will get the chance to pitch their innovations at Pitch Perfect, Europe’s leading bioeconomy pitching and matchmaking event, in front of investors, corporates, and other key stakeholders from across the bioeconomy innovation ecosystem.
Bootcamp timeline
Lay the foundation of your venture by sharpening your value proposition and defining the problem-solution fit.
Turn your vision into a focused strategy by identifying the key assumptions behind your business, technology, and market approach. Learn how to test critical risks early and make informed decisions that move your startup closer to market readiness.
Translate your innovation into a clear technology roadmap. With expert guidance on scale-up, IP, and regulatory requirements, you’ll define the critical steps to move from concept to implementation. At the same time, assess your team’s strengths and dynamics to ensure you have the right blend of skills to grow your industrial biotech startup.
Build a solid financial case to attract investors and partners. You’ll design your revenue model, develop realistic forecasts, and explore funding opportunities from public, private, and strategic investors.
Projects will get the chance to pitch their innovations at Pitch Perfect, Europe’s leading bioeconomy pitching and matchmaking event, in front of investors, corporates, and other key stakeholders from across the bioeconomy innovation ecosystem.
8 intensive weeks
No program fee
4 expert modules
100% investor readiness
Validate your business case
Transform your industrial biotech innovation into a robust, investor-ready business case through intensive validation and expert guidance.
Expert Network Access
Connect with top-tier experts, investors, and industry leaders who understand the unique challenges of industrial biotech ventures.
Proven Methodology
Learn from StartupFramework© and OKR methodologies, specifically adapted for industrial biotech early-stage companies.
Peer-to-Peer Learning
Join an inspiring cohort of like-minded industrial biotech entrepreneurs in an intensive, collaborative environment.
Practical information
Unfortunately, the application deadline has passed.
Committed co-founders with complementary skills, entrepreneurial mindset, and availability for the full 8-week intensive program.
Only candidates who pass the initial screening will be invited to attend the kick-off webinar. This screening is focused on scope of the startup, whether it is in the right phase (pre-seed, seed) and whether there is the commitment to attend the Industrial Biotech Bootcamp in person.
The selection process concludes with an in-person pitch in Delft on September 1st. Applicants will present a summary of their work and their assignment findings. This is the final step before participant selection.
Following the Delft pitches, the selected startups will be invited to join the Biotech Bootcamp. All applicants will be informed of the outcome by 4 September.
Program fee
The program is free to participate in once you have been selected.
Commitment
Attendance of the webinar, all the bootcamp days, coaching sessions and the Investor/demo day.
Get in touch with us via bootcamp@planet-b.io
Interested?
Applications for the Industrial Biotech Bootcamp 2026 are closed. Email us to get notified when the next bootcamp opens.
Industrial biotech isn’t forgiving. You need industry contacts, regulatory awareness, scale-up logic, and financial discipline before anything moves. We didn’t have most of that. The program addressed those gaps perfectly. Because it was designed by industrial biotechnologists for industrial biotechnologists. As a result, we are more confident in our go-to-market plan and investor communication for the first-of-its-kind flame retardant from bacterial biopolymers.
Ali Elahinik
BioFire B.V.
Organizing partners
About Biotech Booster
Biotech Booster is a national program funded by the Dutch National Growth Fund that supports the commercialisation of biotechnological discoveries in the Netherlands. Biotech Booster offers financial support, mentorship, and networking opportunities to guide scientists and entrepreneurs from the idea stage to an investable or commercially viable proposition. The aim is to ensure that the benefits of biotechnology achieve greater and faster impact on society.
About Planet B.io
Stichting Planet B.io fosters a unique and inspiring ecosystem at Biotech Campus Delft, attracting biotechnology companies eager to innovate and grow. By facilitating collaboration and providing access to essential knowledge and infrastructure, Planet B.io helps businesses accelerate their development. Beyond its local activities, Planet B.io connects companies with a vast network of public and private organizations that support the biotech sector.
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