Manakin

Manakin Bio is a biotechnology startup developing real-time pathogen and antibiotic detection for the global food supply chain, with an initial focus on food safety and aquaculture. Its goal is to shift testing from delayed, laboratory-based checks toward proactive, on-site bio-defense. The company describes its platform as a “Bio-GPS”: a connected system combining compact, drop-and-read biosensors with cloud software to help operators monitor biological signals and respond to potential risks.

Manakin Bio’s workflow collects samples, concentrates target analytes, detects biological signals, verifies results, and digitizes findings with facility, batch, and timestamp context. Results can be sent to centralized quality-control dashboards to support alerts, batch holds, and mitigation decisions. The company says its tests take about 30 minutes for pathogens and antibiotics that do not require selective enrichment, and up to six hours for pathogens that do. The system is designed for on-site use without a trained scientist and requires less than five minutes of hands-on time.