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For the past year, we've been quietly working with McKinsey & Company and industrial biotech leaders like L'Oréal, Evonik, and Lallemand on a report that takes an honest look at the state and future of the industrial biotech industry. Today, we’re releasing that report. The report takes a hard look at the opportunities and challenges ahead for industrial biotech, and lays out a path for how we can all win together. The opportunities ahead include solutions to the most important challenges of our time: climate, food security, animal health, and many others. Scale, funding, and basic research are primary challenges. Governments are funding biotechnology aggressively –? but an actual, sustainable solution will require more participation from private industry and much greater scale. Read this report and share it with others. We appreciate all the wonderful folks in our industry who are working toward a better future.

We’re looking forward to “LinkedIn for the Biotech Job Search”, a webinar hosted by Benjamin McLeod and Christian Rados ??, this Wednesday at 12PM ET! Our sponsored event reached capacity quickly, and we’d love to gauge interest for another. Like this post if you’d like more sessions like this one, or leave a comment about other webinar topics you’d like to see! We’re excited to see Ben and Christian share their expertise, and can’t wait to see you there ??

“I’m sure the data’s in the cloud somewhere.” Data storage isn’t the same as data visibility. Think about the data you have distributed across instruments, software, research teams, and sites. What can you access at any given time? How up-to-date is that information? Would it be easy to make sense of? Invert doesn’t just store your data—it follows it throughout your workflow. New data is captured instantly, allowing you to view progress in real time. Integrations with all your software and hardware keep track of development, connecting upstream and downstream processes. Each and every run remains fully traceable, even as you scale production. Real-time data visibility: that’s why Invert's the clear solution on an end-to-end operating system for bioprocess. Check out our website to book a demo today! (image credit: Frank Schulenburg?/?CC BY-SA 3.0)

Did you get your free pizza yet? Here's our favorite feedback so far on invert.pizza. ?? "I was wondering if it was real or not... I told my team, 'there's a chance we'll get some free pizza.'" ?? "I think it’s refreshing that you don’t have to do a demo." ?? "We're already talking about Invert internally thanks to the pizza." ?? If you haven't yet, go ahead and sign up to get some free pizza. It is 100% free, no demos, no marketing emails, just free pizza!

Do you know Benjamin McLeod? Because Invert is partnering with Ben to help you get your next job in biotech! ?? ?? We’re sponsoring “Linkedin for the Biotech Job Search” next week! It’s a free webinar for jobseekers in biotech, hosted by Benjamin McLeod and Christian Rados ??. It’ll cover how to: 1?? Stand out to recruiters 2?? Nail the essentials of a great LinkedIn Profile 3?? Post strategically on LinkedIn 4?? All the right (and wrong!) ways to apply for a job This webinar is nearly at capacity, but we’d love to gauge interest for another session, too. Like this post if you’d like us to sponsor more sessions like this one, or leave a comment about other different webinar topics you’d like to see! And a big thanks to Ben and Christian for all the work they've put into this session. We're excited to see a lot of you there!

Bioprocess isn’t rocket science… but they may be more similar than you think. Last week, Invert's Masaki Yamada and Michael McCutchen went to the 2025 Digital CMC Summit in Austin TX, where they attended the welcome keynote by NASA astronaut, engineer, and Marine Corps pilot Doug Hurley. Some of the most valuable takeaways? ?? Know what “good” looks like: You can’t build a rocket without a blueprint. If you don’t know how to best structure your data, you can’t build from it effectively. Without structure, there is no form. Make that proactive commitment to quality and save time in the long run. ??? Return to first principles: Start from understanding the fundamentals of a problem to map the shortest solution. Simply returning to “what worked the last time” without that understanding will never truly resolve problems. Invert might not be launching ourselves into space, but we think the same principles propel bioprocess forward. If you agree, we think that we should be in your orbit—visit our website to book a demo today! It’s not rocket science (but maybe it is, in spirit ?? ).

TL;DR: Do you work in bioprocess? We’ll buy your entire team pizza (and you won’t need to sit through a sales call). Go to invert.pizza and get some. And yes, that’s a screenshot of our actual site. Why? Because Invert is the world’s best bioprocess software, and we want more people to know about it. What’s the catch, you ask? Free pizza helps spread the word about what we do. But unlike every other “free lunch”, you won’t have to sit through a demo. Or listen to a sales pitch over lunch. Or get added to a mailing list. When you sign up, we'll reach out to coordinate pizza delivery, and we’ll follow up once (and only once) to ask how your lunch went. Zero obligation to do anything?– except enjoy a pizza with your team, on us. All we need is your LinkedIn profile (to make sure you work in bioprocess) and your email (to coordinate pizza delivery). ??We’ll buy your team up to $200 in pizza. Go to invert.pizza to get some pizza! ??

10-17 years: that’s an average estimate for how long it takes to translate biomedical discoveries into clinical practice. Why does it take that long? ?? Different research teams need to collaborate and share data ?? Approval for clinical trials requires extensive documentation ?? Processes to develop new molecules undergo rigorous optimization At Invert, we think your therapeutics should reach the people who need them as quickly as possible. That’s why our software tackles all these bottlenecks head on. If you’d like to find out how, book a demo on our website! (Image credit: James Mutter, Wikimedia Commons, CC-BY-4.0)

Meet Salvador Mireles! Sal is a former fermentation engineer and is a software engineer at Invert. ?? Why did you join Invert? At previous workplaces, my day in lab was spent playing whack-a-mole. You’d fix one thing and something else popped up—data problems, not having the right tools, and always, always dealing with messy spreadsheets. It’s a big headache, but that’s the problem Invert solves. I was interested in that focus on making that day-to-day work easier. ?? What’s a popular misconception about day-to-day work in the bioprocess industry? That you can reliably get robots to do things for you. I'm sure it’s improved, but at a previous company we had an robot who we named Sawyer. He was meant to automate repetitive tasks, but he wasn’t the greatest at helping with lab duties. While it was cool to see him in action, he moved in an un-humanlike zigzag motion, and he’d often do something wrong in between, like drop what he was holding. I also have horror stories of trying to automate centrifugation. It seems easy—grab a sample, throw it in the centrifuge, press go. But robotic arms have little claws which aren’t designed for pressing buttons. Somehow, our best solution was attaching a random rubber ball to the robotic arm, and having that press a button on the centrifuge instead. ??? Give us a bioprocessing hot take Control systems are?fragile because they execute the exact inputs they receive. A single incorrect value could trigger unintended actions, and send hundreds of work hours and thousands of dollars down the drain. But many companies still use spreadsheets to transfer critical control parameters, which opens them up to these vulnerabilities. There's also how processes are transferred from one lab to another. There’s so much trial and error to figure out why something isn’t behaving the same. I love the idea of scientists from one lab going to babysit someone doing the exact same thing, and I wish we encouraged it at least for an initial interval of time or set of experiments. -- If you agree that bioprocess shouldn't be a game of whack-a-mole, like this post and follow Invert for more bioprocess hot takes!

If you knew your house might collapse at any moment, you’d probably spend all your time making sure it didn’t. But if you asked us at Invert, we’d just build you a better house. In-house software development can be lengthy and risky. As purpose-built bioprocess software, Invert allows you to redirect that time and energy to milestones you actually care about. We handle data standardization, instrument and software integration, metadata collection, and more — in short, let us build a floor so you can focus on growing your ceiling. A foundation for your data, ready from Day 1: that’s one of the reasons why Invert is a solid choice for an end-to-end operating system for bioprocessing.