Helping Alabama's biomanufacturing startups grow from the lab to the market.
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Empowering Alabama's
Biomanufacturing Future
The Alabama Biomanufacturing Program supports and accelerates the growth of biomanufacturing startups by providing technical, entrepreneurial, and infrastructure support. Our goal is to expand biomanufacturing across Alabama, particularly in underserved regions, fostering commercialization, partnerships, and economic growth.
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Key Ecosystems
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Companies Supported
Tuskegee
Dothan
Auburn-Opelika
What We Do
We back the people building Alabama's bio economy. Whether you are spinning a discovery out of a university lab or scaling your first production run, here is how we help you grow.
Technical and Regulatory Guidance
Biomanufacturing lives or dies on process. We work alongside founders on scale up, quality systems, and the FDA and regulatory path so your science holds up outside the lab.
Startup Support
From incorporating the company to closing the first round, we help Alabama founders raise capital, sharpen the story, and build a real plan to get a product to market.
Lab Space and Infrastructure
Biology needs benches, not just slide decks. We help startups find lab and pilot space across Alabama and reach the facilities and equipment that early production demands.
Our Partners
Alabama Biomanufacturing Labs was established through a competitive award from Innovate Alabama's tax credit program. The $1.2m program will drive innovation and economic growth in the state through the work from three core partners.
Arrowpoint Labs brings established expertise in biotech venture capital, facility design, industry partnerships, and business development. Previous successes include establishing Birmingham as a Tech Hub and founding a biotech incubator in Birmingham.
Measured Capital principals have served as Entrepreneurs-in-Residence for Alabama research institute spinouts, advised growth-stage startups, and created entrepreneurship programs, including launching the Prosper Health Tech Accelerator.
Opportunity Alabama (OPAL) brings communities, investors, and projects together to preserve and improve quality of place statewide through catalytic development. OPAL has supported 40 Alabama communities, developed over 1.5 million square feet of real estate, and generated more than $600 million in new investment across the state.
Meet the 2026 Biomanufacturing Cohort
BioCraft Lubricants is commercializing a patented catalytic platform that converts vegetable oils and waste cooking oil into high performance, biobased lubricants. Its Friedel Crafts technology produces lubricant base oils and blendstocks with strong lubricity, low volatility, good thermal stability, and compatibility with conventional formulations.
Hypogenica produces precipitated calcium carbonate for use in paints and coatings, via a process that captures and sequesters atmospheric CO2. Hypogenica's foundational technology was developed while studying bacterial adaptations to extreme environments such as limestone caves.
At MicroMGx we work with the best chemists in the world, microbes, to solve some of the world's toughest problems. Our latest is a new anti-parasite that beats resistance.
Valor Scientific is setting a new standard for human recombinant growth factors used for stem cell research, wound healing, regenerative medicine, and skincare. Manufactured in Alabama, our platform preserves proteins in their native, hydrated state to maintain structural integrity and bioactivity. The result is greater consistency and reproducibility that researchers can trust.
Explore our diverse group of innovative companies working across health, sustainability, and technology.
Past Cohorts
In the News
Recent press coverage of our portfolio companies
Contact Us
Reach out to Alabama Biomanufacturing Labs for support in biomanufacturing innovation and startup development.
