YCS14· OtherGinkgo Bioworks
Our mission is to make biology easier to engineer.
Founders
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Competitors
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Adjacent
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TwentyTwoS25AI infrastructure for biosecurityShared: synthetic biologyActive
TagsafeW23Shared: automationActive
LygosW16Lygos (W16) built and commercialized sustainable, high-performance…Shared: synthetic biologyActive
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About Ginkgo Bioworks
Ginkgo Bioworks is the organism company. We design custom organisms for customers across multiple markets. We build our foundries to scale the process of organism engineering using software and hardware automation. Organism engineers at Ginkgo learn from nature to develop new organisms that replace technology with biology.
Boston, MA, USA
Ginkgo Bioworks: questions
Which YC batch was Ginkgo Bioworks in?
Ginkgo Bioworks was in Y Combinator's Summer 2014 batch (S14).
Is Ginkgo Bioworks still active?
Y Combinator lists Ginkgo Bioworks as public.
Where is Ginkgo Bioworks based?
Ginkgo Bioworks lists Boston, MA, USA as its location on YC's directory.
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