Biodentify

biodentify was founded as a joint venture of tno and joa ventures in 2015. the company is headquartered in the university city delft, the netherlands. tno is a 4000+ dutch r&d; organization, hosting the largest microbiological research group in the netherlands. joa ventures is business incubator focus on innovative technologies in oil & gas, biotech and software, and manages its investment fund joa ventures seed capital i. the result of this cooperation is a patented technology, predicting sweet spots in shale oil and gas plays before drilling with > 70% accuracy. it indicates where to drill, and where not. recently the company has extended its methodology to also predict prospectivity for conventional prospects and fields. it enables raking of offshore prospects and de-risking of expensive offshore wells. biodentify uses dna analysis of surface (or seabed) soil samples, containing information of the mix of microbial species in the soil samples which is in its turn an indicator of the