Planet B.io / Biotech Campus Delft

About Planet B.io / Biotech Campus Delft

Planet B.io is a not-for-profit innovation hub based at the Biotech Campus Delft in the Netherlands. It focuses on industrial biotechnology and food biotechnology, supporting startups, scale-ups, and more established companies that are developing biotech solutions for a more sustainable, biobased, and circular economy.

The organization does more than provide lab or office space: it builds an ecosystem around companies through facilities, services, networking, and access to expertise. Planet B.io positions itself as a connector within the triple-helix model, bringing together science, education, government, investors, and industry to help companies translate research into viable businesses and grow on campus or through its wider membership network.

Core Values

• Sustainability: Planet B.io’s mission is to accelerate the transition to a sustainable, biobased, and circular society. Its messaging consistently emphasizes solutions that reduce reliance on fossil resources and support more planet-friendly production.
• Collaboration: The organization is built around open innovation and the triple-helix model, encouraging interaction among startups, corporates, knowledge institutions, investors, and public bodies.
• Growth and entrepreneurship: Planet B.io aims to remove barriers for biotech entrepreneurs and help them move from research to commercial scale through tailored facilities and ecosystem support.
• Innovation: The hub promotes industrial and food biotechnology as enabling technologies for new products, processes, and business models across food, chemicals, materials, and other sectors.

Unique Aspects

• Biotech Campus Delft ecosystem: Planet B.io operates within a campus environment that combines startups, scale-ups, corporates, and knowledge institutions in one location, creating a concentrated biotech community in Delft.
• Campus-scale infrastructure: It offers a progression of facilities for companies at different stages, from shared benches and labs to multi-tenant buildings and space for future office or production development.
• Strong partner network: Planet B.io is connected to a broad network of principal partners and collaborators, including TU Delft, the Municipality of Delft, the Province of South Holland, InnovationQuarter, dsm-firmenich, and a.s.r. Dutch Science Park Fund.
• Program partnerships beyond Delft: Its partnership with StartLife extends support between the Delft and Wageningen ecosystems, linking agrifoodtech startups with complementary networks, mentors, and facilities.
• Sector-specific focus: Unlike a general incubator, Planet B.io is explicitly centered on industrial biotechnology and food biotechnology, with services and facilities tailored to scale-up needs in those domains.