The hybrid model  ·  U.S. ↔ Israel

Fermentation scale-up that never sleeps

Built for U.S. companies scaling a fermentation process. Develop your strain or bioprocess stateside with zero timezone friction, then scale it in our industrial fermentation plant in Israel so work keeps moving while your team sleeps.

Durham, NC · now
Handoff window
~7 hours
worked every business day
Israel · now

How the bridge works

A seven-hour head start, every day

You brief the day from the U.S. Our Israel team runs the fermentation overnight. You review a completed shift the next morning - and decide the next move before lunch.

Daily handoff cycle ≈ 7 hours worked while the U.S. sleeps
Global connection between Durham, North Carolina and Israel. Durham, NC, U.S.A Israel
1U.S. morning

Align on targets

A quick call sets the day's fermentation goals with your U.S. team, live, before the shift begins.

2U.S. night

Israel runs the shift

While your U.S. office is dark, our Israel team executes and monitors the run at industrial scale.

3Next morning

Results waiting

A finished run and clean data are waiting the moment your team logs on.

Bioprocess piloting hardware at the YDLabs U.S. lab in Durham, North Carolina

On the ground in the U.S.

Durham, North Carolina

Our U.S. base sits in North Carolina's Research Triangle, one of the country's fastest-growing science and innovation hubs, so you get a partner in your timezone, close to teams moving from lab bench to pilot and field.

  • U.S. point of contact - support and updates in your timezone, no overnight lag.
  • 750L rapid piloting - coming soon to Durham.
  • Near your teams - in a national research and industry hub.
Visitors touring the YDLabs facility in Nof HaGalil, Israel

Industrial capacity

Scale seamlessly in Israel

Israel is where your lab-proven biology becomes field-trial-ready material, backed by a full downstream suite: centrifuges, filtration, homogenizers, dryers and analytics.

80-1,000L
Fermenter train, today
1,000L
Active fermentation site
15,000L
Demo plantQ4 2026

Why the gap works for you

A scheduling problem, turned into a speed advantage

1

Overnight progress

Every run advances while your U.S. team is offline. No idle overnight hours.

2

Always monitored

Our Israel team watches every batch through the night, live.

3

Faster iteration

Decide today, test tonight, review by morning. Cycles compress from weeks to days.

The time difference is your fastest team member.

Our business model

Hand us the science. We'll scale it up.

We work as your Contract Development & Manufacturing Organization (CDMO): a fee-per-service partner with no claim on your company or your IP.

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The model
Fee-per-service

You pay only for the work we deliver - development, fermentation, downstream. No retainers, no long-term lock-in.

No strings attached
No equity taken
Your cap table stays entirely yours.
No shared IP
Everything you develop stays your IP.
No royalties
One clear fee, never a cut of your revenue.

You don't need a factory of your own - you just need us.

Ready to put the clock on your side?

Leave your details or book a scale-up assessment. We'll tell you what's ready, what isn't, and how fast we can get you to first pilot batches.