Andreas Hougaard Laustsen

Bactolife A/S is a Danish industrial biotech company that specializes in developing biological solutions to strengthen the gut microbiome and combat antimicrobial resistance. Bactolife is based in Kongens Lyngby, Denmark and was founded in 2017 by Andreas Hougaard Laustsen, Per Falholt, Mads Laustsen, David Kauffmann, and Sandra Wingaard Thrane. The company has approximately 40 employees and uses its proprietary binding protein technology to select and produce binding proteins that act on toxins without targeting growth or killing bacteria directly. Bactolife is developing and marketing ingredients for various groups, including mothers and children, the elderly, immunodeficient individuals, travelers, deployed individuals, and animal health. The company has proof of concept for its technology, including its most advanced animal health product, ablacto+, which stabilizes the gut of piglets and reduces the severity of post-weaning diarrhea. Mads Laustsen has been the CEO since 2017.

VenomAid Diagnostics ApS provides diagnostic test services for snake bites. The company is based in Kongens Lyngby, Denmark. The Danish company was founded by Cecilie Knudsen, Søren H. Dam, Jonas A. Jürgensen, Andreas Hougaard Laustsen. Jonas A. Jürgensen has been the CEO since incorporation.

Biosyntia ApS provides services in synthetic biology and metabolic engineering fields. It offers biocatalysts for fermentation of fine chemicals. The company was founded by Andreas Hougaard Laustsen, Morten Otto Alexander Sommer, and Hans Jasper Genee in 2012 and is headquartered in Copenhagen, Denmark.