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Ginkgo Bioworks
The world's first organism engineering foundry
What we do: Ginkgo Bioworks speeds up the process of genetically engineering and growing ingredients. We’ve built the first foundry for flexible industrialized organism engineering to develop a wide range of organisms for different markets. Integrating advanced software, robots and biology allow us to rapidly design, build, and test organisms until they meet our specifications.Why it's a big deal: Ginkgo led an $8M DOE project to engineer microbes that utilize single-carbon molecules. This technology is being used to capture natural gas being flared in North Dakota, and it could eventually lead to microbes converting these single-carbon compounds into fuel. Clearly, genetic engineering has immense potential to shape the future of this planet. Nature's biodiversity holds answers to challenges in health, energy, food, materials, and more. Ginkgo engineers develop new organisms that replace technology with biology, leading to 50% reductions in production costs for their clients. With contracts already signed for $10M in annual royalties, it's no wonder Ginkgo was able to pull in $9M from Series A financing. Ginkgo is expanding the role of biology in our world, uniting the creative aspects of biology and technology.
Barry Canton
Ginkgo Bioworks is on Wefunder Inc. They are not conducting a Regulation Crowdfunding campaign. You can follow them and get notified of their progress.
Why you may want to support us...
| 1 | Contracts signed for $10 million in annual royalties |
| 2 | Reduce production costs for customers by 50% |
| 3 | Grow ingredients in about 10 days |
| 4 | 15 PhD’s and two MIT professors on staff |
| 5 | Raised $9 Million in Series A Financing |
| 6 | First biotech startup to go through Y Combinator |
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Some of our investors
Y Combinator
Seed funded 1500+ startups (including AirBnB) with total valuation over $85 billion. 70 startups valued over $100m.
Jude Gomila
Founder Heyzap, YC/Cantab Alum. Portfolio: ZenPayroll, Transcriptic, inDinero, Bugsnag, AngelList, Videopixie, Zesty, Benchling, Ginkgo, MatterFab
Farzad Nazem
Founding CTO of Yahoo for the first 11 years. Angel investor and adviser.
In the news
Why organism engineering could be a foodie’s dream come true
By taking advantage of software-directed robots, the plan is to scale up the production of engineered organisms that could eventually be used to make anything from designer fragrances to cheap biofuels.
May 27, 2015
@ washingtonpost.com
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In the news
Why organism engineering could be a foodie’s dream come true
By taking advantage of software-directed robots, the plan is to scale up the production of engineered organisms that could eventually be used to make anything from designer fragrances to cheap biofuels.
May 27, 2015
@ washingtonpost.com
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