Built by the people who lived the problem
Fermentile was built by an MSAT engineer who had assembled three deviation investigation packages manually before concluding that the workflow was structurally broken.
Carmen Aguilar spent two years as an MSAT engineer at a San Diego CDMO, then joined a late-stage biopharma manufacturer as a process development lead. After her third manually-assembled lot deviation package — each requiring 2–3 days of data correlation across DeltaV exports, LIMS sample results, and handwritten batch records — she concluded that the investigation workflow was structurally broken, not just inefficient.
The data needed to classify and investigate a bioreactor deviation exists in the site’s DCS, LIMS, and batch records within the first hour of the excursion. The problem was that no system presented it as a coherent investigation view. Every MSAT team was independently building the same Excel pivot tables to do the same root-cause correlation that should have been automated years ago.
She built an internal Python pipeline at her then-employer to pull DeltaV exports and LIMS results into a single comparison view, validated it against 50 historical batches, and cut her own investigation time significantly. When colleagues at other sites started asking for access, the commercial case was clear.
Fermentile launched in late 2024 and is working with MSAT and process development teams at biopharma manufacturers and CDMOs in the San Diego biotech corridor, backed by $1.2M angel funding received in November 2025.
Give every MSAT team the same investigation capability as their most experienced engineer — available on any batch, any time.
What guides our product decisions
- Built for the manufacturing floor, not the boardroom
- Support what regulators actually require — not marketing claims
- MSAT engineers as primary user, not QA managers
- Data that already exists should do more work
Built where biopharma manufacturing happens
San Diego is home to one of the highest concentrations of biopharmaceutical manufacturers and CDMOs outside of the Boston-Cambridge corridor. The Sorrento Valley, Torrey Pines, and Kearny Mesa areas host manufacturing operations for biologics, cell therapies, and small-molecule APIs at pilot through commercial scale.
Fermentile is headquartered at 4275 Executive Square, Suite 600, San Diego, CA 92037 — in the heart of the UCSD research and biotech corridor. Our proximity to pilot partners in the San Diego manufacturing community is part of how we validate and improve the platform.
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