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Top 25 Fermentation biotechnology companies based in Germany
RevenueBase identified 70 fermentation biotechnology companies headquartered in Germany as of September 2026 and tracks 5,942 professional contacts across them, including 2,943 with verified work emails. Berlin is the largest hub.
This list covers fermentation biotechnology companies headquartered in Germany, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 16, 2026.
Published by RevenueBase, a B2B data infrastructure company. This list was built with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search RevenueBase customers use to build their own targeted lists and unlock verified emails and direct dials at the companies on them. How these lists are built and judged.
The 25 largest fermentation biotechnology companies based in Germany
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 4,495 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “We are a leading player and one of the world’s most research-intensive chemical and biotechnology companies.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 291 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “AB Enzymes is an industrial biotech company specialized in enzymes and their applications.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 184 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Mit unseren innovativen Technologien gestalten wir den gesellschaftlichen und industriellen Wandel hin zu Klimaneutralität und ökologischer Produktion.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 159 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Ohly is one of the world's leading suppliers of yeast-based ingredients, fermentation nutrients, culinary powders and lipid powders for the global food, biotechnology, human, and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 78 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Leiber refines brewers’ yeast into innovative products for humans and animals.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 71 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “UNIFERM - Der Fermentationsspezialist Seit Jahrzehnten vereinen wir bei UNIFERM Tradition und Innovation, um die Backbranche zu inspirieren.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 70 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “c-LEcta is a global biotechnology company with over 20 years experience in the development, production and distribution of enzyme products.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 62 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “With sustainable, renewable products from biomass for a climate-friendly world - that is what we at CropEnergies stand for.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 61 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The BRAIN Biotech Group is a leading company in the research, development and production of specialist enzymes with a focus on the food and life science industries.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 52 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “MicroHarvest Delivers Better Protein: Sustainable.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 29 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “BIOWEG, founded in 2019 in Germany, is a purpose-driven organization powered by conscious ChemDesign.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 26 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We offer cost-competitive, nutritious, and delicious solutions for the food industry, allowing for a short and clean label.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 25 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The Cultivated B (TCB) is driving the transformation of food and food ingredient manufacturing towards a sustainable future.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 18 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “As a technology specialist for fermentation and bioprocesses, Frings is your partner for plant engineering and manufacturing from laboratory to industrial scale.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 17 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Picea Biosolutions is a biotechnology company focused on creating tailored and sustainable biosolutions to meet 21st-century challenges.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 13 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We research, analyze, develop and formulate enzymes for agricultural and industrial applications- We develop enzyme products to improve flowability, productivity and performance…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 12 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Kompetenz in Biogas Silierung Labordienstleistungen 🧫 Fermenterbiologie Stromvermarktung Wir leben Biogas!” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 10 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “m2p-labs is an internationally leading supplier of microbioreactor systems focusing on microreaction and automated solutions for screening and bioprocess development.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 9 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “In 2023 Biocatalysts Ltd successfully completed the acquisition of Breatec, WeissBioTech and Biosun from its parent company BRAIN Biotech AG, creating the Bioproducts division…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 9 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Cetotec was founded in 1996, and has established itself as a worldwide leader in Research and Development for the vinegar industry.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 8 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Nomad Bioscience GmbH is a biotechnology company based out of Weinbergweg, Halle (Saale), Saxony-Anhalt, Germany.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 8 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “As a leading specialist in ecosystemic fermentation, woresan is your partner for innovative and sustainable solutions in various industries.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 7 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “b.fab is specialized in the efficient conversion of CO2 and hydrogen (H2) from renewable energy into biotechnological value chains.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 5 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Schmeckt gut.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 4 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Twogee Biotech specializes in enzyme discovery and custom enzyme mixtures for efficient degradation of agricultural residues like wheat straw, corn stover, and bagasse.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search assesses information from a company’s LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website, and other publicly available sources. It uses that information to rate how closely the company relates to this list’s category: fermentation biotechnology companies. Every row carries its rating and the description the rating was read from, so each one can be checked rather than taken on trust.
- Strong evidence
- The company's own public description of its business names fermentation biotechnology companies.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of fermentation biotechnology companies, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name fermentation biotechnology companies. The match rests on the rest of the company's public profile rather than the one sentence quoted here, so this is the rating to check first.
RevenueBase Smart Search is how these lists are built: RevenueBase's data engine and AI assemble the companies that match a category defined in a user's own words, so a list can be about what companies actually do rather than about whichever industry code they were filed under.
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Fermentation biotechnology companies based in Germany at a glance
As of Sep 16, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for Germany, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for Germany, over 70 companies.
How this list was built
Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among fermentation biotechnology companies, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.
- Source
- The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
- What qualifies
- Companies headquartered in Germany whose own description of what they do matches “fermentation biotechnology companies”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
- RevenueBase Smart Search
- RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names fermentation biotechnology companies), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
- What we exclude
- Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among fermentation biotechnology companies, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside Germany are excluded even when they keep an office there.
- Match quality
- In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
- Ranking
- Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
- Verification
- Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 2,943 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
- Refresh
- This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 16, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
- Corrections
- Wrong category, wrong headquarters, or a company that has closed? Use “Report an issue” on any row. Reports go to the RevenueBase Data Team and feed back into the company graph.
Frequently asked
What is RevenueBase Smart Search?
RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names fermentation biotechnology companies, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.
How many fermentation biotechnology companies are there based in Germany?
RevenueBase identified 70 fermentation biotechnology companies headquartered in Germany as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.
What is the largest company on this list?
Wacker, headquartered in Munich, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most fermentation biotechnology companies?
Berlin leads with 5 headquartered companies, followed by Hamburg (4) and Leipzig (4).
How do I get contact information for these companies?
A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 2,943 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 70 companies.
How current is this list?
The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 16, 2026.
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