Hygiena
Hygiena is a privately held diagnostics company that sells rapid ATP, PCR, and ELISA-based testing systems, consumables, and the SureTrend cloud software platform to food and beverage manufacturers, healthcare, pharmaceutical, and hospitality operators across 100+ countries.
- Company typePrivate
- Founded2001
- HeadquartersCamarillo, United States
- Headcount251–500
- GTM typeB2B
- OfferingHardware or Manufacturing
What Hygiena does
Hygiena is a privately held diagnostics company headquartered in Camarillo, California, that develops and sells rapid testing solutions for hygiene monitoring, food safety, and environmental contamination. The company is organized around three core technology pillars: ATP bioluminescence systems (anchored by the EnSURE Touch luminometer and UltraSnap surface swabs) for seconds-fast cleaning verification; real-time PCR-based molecular detection (the BAX System platform) for foodborne pathogens and spoilage organisms; and immunoassay-based tests (ELISA) for allergens and mycotoxins. The product portfolio is unified by the SureTrend cloud data management platform and the KLEANZ sanitation management module, which together provide compliance tracking, analytics, and digital workflow tools across multi-site food safety operations.
The company sells proprietary instruments alongside a deep consumables catalog of swabs, kits, DNA/RNA extraction reagents, and enrichment media, creating a razor-and-blade revenue model supplemented by subscription-based software revenue. Hygiena serves primary customers in the food and beverage industry (processors of meat, dairy, beverages, produce, and prepared foods) along with secondary verticals in healthcare/hospital hygiene, pharmaceutical sterility, hospitality, industrial manufacturing, and janitorial/sanitation services. Its methods hold validation from AOAC-OMA, AOAC-RI, MicroVal, NordVal, AFNOR, Health Canada, and USDA-FSIS, which serve as de facto regulatory acceptance in major markets.
Hygiena distributes through a combination of direct field sales for enterprise accounts, inside sales for mid-market customers, and self-serve e-commerce storefronts in the US and Australia. The company operates directly in 100+ countries with wholly-owned offices in 12 cities across the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia-Pacific, including regional headquarters in Shanghai, Guildford, and Alexandria (Sydney), and an R&D center in Potsdam, Germany. The company has been backed by Warburg Pincus since 2016 and has grown substantially in part through M&A, most recently acquiring Nexcor Food Safety Technologies in December 2024 and DuPont Nutrition & Biosciences' diagnostics business in December 2016.
Hygiena firmographics
Firmographics- Name
- Hygiena
- Legal name
- Hygiena LLC
- Website
- https://hygiena.com
- Company type
- Private
- Founded year
- 2001
- Operating status
- Operating
- Headcount range
- 251–500 employees
- Short description
- Hygiena is a privately held diagnostics company that sells rapid ATP, PCR, and ELISA-based testing systems, consumables, and the SureTrend cloud software platform to food and beverage manufacturers, healthcare, pharmaceutical, and hospitality operators across 100+ countries.
- Ownership category
- akta.pro rank
Hygiena industry classification
Industry- Product category
- Food Safety Diagnostics
- NAICS
- Analytical Laboratory Instrument Manufacturing (334516), In-Vitro Diagnostic Substance Manufacturing (325413)
- SIC
- Laboratory Analytical Instruments (3826), Services-Testing Laboratories (8734), In Vitro & In Vivo Diagnostic Substances (2835)
- akta.pro primary industry
- Food Testing Laboratories (Microbiological, Chemical, Allergen) (AFALAAAA)
- akta.pro secondary industries
- Equipment & Facility Hygienic Design Assessment (Harborage Identification, Remediation Verification) (AFALAEAM), Regulatory Compliance Testing (Microbiological, Chemical, Allergen) (AFALADAA), Allergen Cross-Contact Environmental Verification (Protein Swabs, ELISA Swabs) (AFALAEAH)
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Where Hygiena is headquartered
LocationHeadquarters
- HQ city
- Camarillo
- HQ country
- United States
- HQ region
- North America
Offices12 records
Markets served
Hygiena business model
Business model- GTM type
- B2B
- Offering type
- Hardware or Manufacturing
- Cost components
- Supply Chain, Technology or R&D, Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure
Revenue model
- Diagnostic Testing Products: Hygiena generates revenue through sale of diagnostic testing products including ATP monitoring swabs, pathogen detection kits, allergen tests, mycotoxin tests, and related reagents. These are consumable products used with proprietary instruments.
- Instruments and Equipment: Sale of proprietary instruments including EnSURE Touch luminometers, PCR systems, and monitoring equipment. Instruments are sold outright and may be bundled with consumable agreements.
- Software Subscriptions: SureTrend Cloud Food Safety Software provides real-time compliance tracking and data analytics. The platform enables digital transformation of food safety monitoring.
- Sample Collection and Preparation Products: DNA/RNA extraction kits, enrichment media, sample collection supplies, and reagents for laboratory testing workflows
Go-to-market motion1 record
Distribution channels4 records
Marketing channels6 records
Hygiena product offering
Product offeringCore offering
Hygiena develops, manufactures, and sells rapid diagnostic testing products, instruments, and software for food safety, hygiene monitoring, and contamination detection. The portfolio includes ATP luminometer systems (EnSURE Touch) with matching swabs, real-time PCR pathogen detection platforms (BAX System), ELISA-based allergen and mycotoxin test kits, sample preparation reagents, and the SureTrend cloud-based compliance and data analytics platform. Customers are food and beverage processors, healthcare facilities, hospitality operators, pharmaceutical manufacturers, and industrial producers across more than 100 countries.
Product overview
Hygiena offers a comprehensive portfolio of diagnostic solutions organized around three main pillars: ATP monitoring systems (EnSURE Touch luminometers with UltraSnap swabs), molecular PCR-based pathogen detection (BAX System platform), and immunoassay-based tests (AllerSnap allergen tests, ELISA mycotoxin tests). The product ecosystem includes the SureTrend Cloud software platform for data analytics and compliance tracking, supported by sample collection and preparation products including DNA/RNA extraction kits and enrichment media. The company serves food and beverage, healthcare, hospitality, pharmaceutical, and industrial manufacturing sectors with products spanning cleaning verification (ATP, protein residue), microbial testing (indicator organisms, spoilage organisms), allergen detection, pathogen detection, GMO screening, mycotoxin testing, and animal identification. The unified platform approach connects instruments and software to enable real-time monitoring and data-driven food safety decisions across the production chain.
Differentiator
Problem solved
Functional benefit
Brands
- SureTrend: Cloud-based data management and analytics platform for food safety compliance tracking and real-time monitoring.
- KLEANZ
Products and services
- EnSURE Touch Advanced ATP cleaning verification luminometer with a touchscreen interface for hygiene monitoring in food processing, healthcare, and hospitality facilities; provides quantitative cleanliness measurements in seconds.
- SureTrend Cloud Food Safety Software Cloud-based data analytics and management platform that collects and analyzes ATP monitoring data from instruments, providing real-time compliance tracking and reporting for food safety operations across multiple facilities.
- KLEANZ Sanitation Management Software Sanitation management software for coordinating cleaning schedules, tracking sanitation activities, and maintaining compliance records for food and beverage facilities.
- UltraSnap Surface ATP Test Surface ATP swab test for rapid cleaning verification, delivering quantitative cleanliness measurements within seconds to validate hygiene protocols on food contact and environmental surfaces.
- AllerSnap Allergen Detection Test ELISA-based allergen detection test for monitoring protein residue and allergen contamination on surfaces and in food samples, supporting allergen control programs.
- MicroSnap Rapid Microbiology Tests Rapid microbiology testing system for detection of indicator organisms including Total Viable Count, Coliform, E. coli, and Listeria in food and environmental samples, with AOAC-OMA and AOAC-RI validations.
- ZymoSnap Alkaline Phosphatase Test Alkaline phosphatase test for rapid verification of milk pasteurization efficiency, providing results in minutes rather than days required by traditional methods.
- ProClean Protein Residue Detection Swab Protein residue detection swab for verifying cleaning effectiveness on food contact surfaces.
- InSite Environmental Listeria Test Environmental Listeria testing swab with enrichment for rapid detection of Listeria species in food processing environments.
- BAX System Real-Time PCR Platform Real-time PCR-based molecular testing platform for automated detection of foodborne pathogens including Salmonella, Listeria, E. coli, and other microorganisms with high accuracy.
- DNA/RNA Extraction Kits Sample preparation kits including Standard, High-Throughput, High-Purity, and Automated extraction options for molecular testing workflows supporting PCR-based pathogen detection.
- Enrichment Media PCR detection enrichment media and other enrichment media for pre-enrichment of samples before molecular or cultural testing.
Quantifiable outcome
- Delivers quantitative cleanliness measurements within seconds vs. 24-72 hours for traditional microbiological testing
Companies that use Hygiena
Customer profileSegments7 records
Ideal customer profiles6 records
Hygiena technology and API
TechnologyTechnology focussed Yes
API detail
- Has API
- No
- API docs
- API detail
Core technology
AI maturity
App detail
Feature6 records
Hygiena partnerships and signals
Strategic signalScale indicators2 records
Recent moves6 records
Expansion highlights6 records
Hygiena competitors and assessment
Company assessmentBroad incumbents
- SGS SA: SGS provides global agricultural and food testing services, representing both a complementary partner opportunity and an indirect competitor to Hygiena when food manufacturers choose outsourced testing over in-house rapid diagnostics.
- Eurofins Scientific: Eurofins is the world's largest food testing services network; while primarily a contract laboratory, its in-house method development and instrumentation procurement decisions make it both a customer and an indirect competitor to Hygiena's diagnostic products.
- Mérieux NutriSciences: Mérieux NutriSciences provides food safety testing services and consulting across the supply chain, overlapping with Hygiena in food processor and retailer compliance support while also influencing in-house vs. outsourced testing decisions.
- bioMérieux (Industrial Microbiology): bioMérieux's Industrial Microbiology division offers the TEMPO and GENE-UP molecular testing platforms and BioBall reference standards that compete with Hygiena's indicator organism and pathogen detection kits in industrial food and beverage quality control.
- Thermo Fisher Scientific: Thermo Fisher competes broadly through its Oxoid food safety microbiology media, Remel pathogen detection reagents, and Applied Biosystems real-time PCR instruments, which overlap with Hygiena's enrichment media, DNA/RNA extraction kits, and BAX PCR systems.
Direct peers
- Bio-Rad Laboratories: Bio-Rad's iQ-Check PCR pathogen detection portfolio and immunoassay product lines directly compete with Hygiena's BAX System real-time PCR platform and ELISA-based allergen/mycotoxin kits in food safety laboratories.
- R-Biopharm: R-Biopharm offers ELISA and PCR test kits for mycotoxins, allergens, and pathogens, directly competing with Hygiena's AllerSnap allergen tests, mycotoxin ELISA kits, and PCR-based pathogen detection in food and feed testing laboratories.
- 3M Food Safety (now Neogen): Neogen (which combined with the former 3M Food Safety business) is a direct competitor in ATP luminometry, pathogen detection, and sanitation verification, offering overlapping products such as the AccuPoint Advanced ATP system and molecular pathogen tests for food processors globally.
Emerging players
- Charles River Laboratories: Charles River's microbial detection and molecular diagnostics products, including the Endosafe and Celsis rapid testing platforms, overlap with Hygiena's ATP and PCR-based offerings in industrial and pharmaceutical quality environments.
- bioLytical Laboratories: bioLytical is an emerging rapid diagnostics developer with food and environmental safety applications whose molecular platform development parallels Hygiena's PCR-based pathogen detection roadmap.
Market position
Strengths4 records
Weaknesses5 records
Competitive moat6 records
Key risks6 records
Key highlights6 records
Customer concentration
Hygiena social profiles
Digital presenceHygiena compliance and trust
Trust signalCompliance7 records
Hygiena financial estimates
Financial estimateRevenue estimate
Valuation estimate
Hygiena leadership team
Management profileNumber of profiles
Profiles4 records
Hygiena funding detail
Funding detailFunding overview
Funding rounds1 record
Investors1 record
Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →
Hygiena M&A and investment
M&A and investmentM&A2 records
Investments
M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →
Frequently asked questions about Hygiena
What does Hygiena do?
Hygiena develops, manufactures, and sells rapid diagnostic testing products, instruments, and software for food safety, hygiene monitoring, and contamination detection. The portfolio includes ATP luminometer systems (EnSURE Touch) with matching swabs, real-time PCR pathogen detection platforms (BAX System), ELISA-based allergen and mycotoxin test kits, sample preparation reagents, and the SureTrend cloud-based compliance and data analytics platform. Customers are food and beverage processors, healthcare facilities, hospitality operators, pharmaceutical manufacturers, and industrial producers across more than 100 countries.
Is Hygiena a public or private company?
Hygiena is a private company. It is classified as private equity controlled and is currently operating.
When was Hygiena founded?
Hygiena was founded in 2001. It employs 251 to 500 people.
Where is Hygiena based?
Hygiena is headquartered in Camarillo, United States, in the North America region.
How does Hygiena make money?
Four revenue lines are on record. Diagnostic Testing Products are the primary driver. The others are instruments and Equipment, software Subscriptions and sample Collection and Preparation Products.
Who are Hygiena's main competitors?
Broad incumbents on record are SGS SA, Eurofins Scientific, Mérieux NutriSciences, bioMérieux (Industrial Microbiology) and Thermo Fisher Scientific. Direct peers are Bio-Rad Laboratories, R-Biopharm and 3M Food Safety (now Neogen). Emerging players are Charles River Laboratories and bioLytical Laboratories.
Does Hygiena have an API?
No public API is recorded for Hygiena.
What industry is Hygiena in?
Hygiena's product category is Food Safety Diagnostics. Its primary akta.pro industry code is AFALAAAA, Food Testing Laboratories (Microbiological, Chemical, Allergen), with a secondary code of AFALAEAM, Equipment & Facility Hygienic Design Assessment (Harborage Identification, Remediation Verification). Its NAICS code is 334516 and its SIC code is 3826.