New Dawn Bio

Wageningen startup growing wood from tree stem cells in bioreactors, shaped into near-final products without felling trees.

Planting & silvicultureWageningen, Netherlands

New Dawn Bio grows wood from tree stem cells in bioreactors instead of harvesting standing trees. The cells are multiplied and guided to form wood tissue in the shape of the desired product, which the company says reduces sawing and machining waste. It is based on the Wageningen Campus in the Netherlands and closed a pre-seed round of about EUR 2.1 million in June 2026, led by CapitalT.

What Boreal Tech Brief reported

  1. #04916 Jun 2026 · News

    New Dawn Bio bets on lab-grown wood to replace felling

    The Wageningen startup wants to grow real wood in bioreactors instead of cutting down trees, multiplying tree stem cells and steering them to harden into the finished shape, with no sawing or logging. It has raised a €2.1M pre-seed led by CapitalT, with Norrsken Evolve joining. The pitch is premium timber grown to spec, with far less waste than cutting rectangular boards from round logs. Samples are postage-stamp sized today; tabletop scale is the stated next milestone, and structural use is still years out.