Dr. Chiara Guidi is CEO and Co-Founder of B-COS. She is a synthetic biologist and fermentation engineer with over ten years of expertise in strain engineering, bioprocess optimisation, and industrial scale-up. Chiara sits at the intersection of deep science and real-world agricultural impact. Her PhD was centred around the B-COS technology, contributing directly to its patent claims. She has led multiple R&D programmes in industrial biotechnology and represented B-COS at major European investor and agrifood forums. Chiara was named Gentrepreneur’s Entrepreneurial Researcher of the Year (2025) and received second place in the Nutreco Young Researcher Prize (2022).
B-COS – resilient plant production
B-COS is a Ghent-based spin-off company developing biological crop protection products using precision fermentation. Through engineered bacteria grown on simple sugar feedstocks, the company produces chitooligosaccharides with pharmaceutical-grade batch-to-batch consistency. The tightly controlled process ensures reliable product performance at a cost-effective price per hectare.
Their technology platform can be tuned to generate different chitooligosaccharide structures for different agronomic challenges, from drought resilience to nematode or fungal protection, providing B-COS a broad product roadmap built on a single core technology. B-COS has earned recognition across the food & ag space, including Hello Tomorrow Deep Tech Pioneer and multiple agritech awards.
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