At Amino Labs, our goal is to make genetic engineering accessible to everyone. This will enable the next industrial revolution of personalized manufacturing using biology and help solve the world's biggest problem from fuel to food to medicine. At the moment, genetic engineering affects more than a billion people every day as a core part of our society, yet, only a minuscule fraction of the population understand it.
Driven by ground-breaking technology and UX started as a research thesis at MIT, our easy-to-use kits are giving rise to the next 99 million bioengineers, from the ages of 12 & up.
Amino Labs Inc. was co-founded by designer Julie Legault, based on her thesis research at the MIT Media Lab, 2015. After experiencing the difficulties of learning synthetic biology, bioengineering, from textbooks and online material, Julie created a mini-lab, the Amino One, to help other people get familiar with the science through doing. As a designer, Julie focussed her efforts on application-based learning; from Fragrances to pigments, the Amino One is made to inspire new enthusiasts.
After graduation, she and her co-founder, scientist Dr.Justin Pahara, (who had mentored her throughout her thesis research) found friends and colleagues from Montreal, Toronto, and Boston to form an amazing, dedicated and excited team... without which Amino One would still only be a prototype. Find out more about our story from academia to startup. At its very beginning, last fall 2015, the company got a kickstart by participating in MIT's E14 Fund and in SF's Indie Bio accelerator. We took that time to refine the Amino One and test it out with actual people! Great Support came from an early crowdfunding campaign for the Amino One which is shipping as of summer 2016.
MADE IN CANADA
All Amino Labs products, from the hardware to the DNA, are developed, designed, manufactured and packaged by us from our laboratory and workshop in Canada.
Location: Canada, Alberta, Lethbridge
Employees: 1-10
Founded date: 2015
Investors 3
Date | Name | Website |
- | E14 Fund M... | e14fund.co... |
- | E14 Fund | e14.vc |
- | GrowthX | growthx.co... |