Bringing new high performance sustainable materials to the world with breakthrough molecular biology, chemistry, and fabrication
Location: United States, California, Berkeley
Employees: 11-50
Total raised: $109M
Founded date: 2016
Investors 8
Funding Rounds 4
| Date | Series | Amount | Investors |
| 14.02.2023 | Series C | $55M | ArrowMark ... |
| 19.08.2020 | Series B | $36M | - |
| 16.04.2019 | Series A | $13M | - |
| 25.06.2018 | Seed | $5M | - |
Mentions in press and media 14
| Date | Title | Description | Source |
| 25.03.2024 | Checkerspot and AAK to Produce Novel, Climate Change-Resiste... | California’s Checkerspot and the Swedish company AAK have announced a partnership to develop, scale,... | vegconomis... |
| 22.03.2024 | AAK, Checkerspot form partnership | ALAMEDA, CALIF. — AAK and Checkerspot are partnering together to develop, scale, and commercially pr... | foodbusine... |
| 06.03.2024 | Cultivated Biosciences raises $5m seed round to expand ‘yeas... | Swiss startup Cultivated Biosciences has raised a $5 million seed round to scale up a yeast fermenta... | agfunderne... |
| 31.01.2024 | Checkerspot Unveils “Breakthrough” for Baby Formula: Human M... | California’s Checkerspot, a biotechnology firm that produces renewable oils by fermentation of micro... | vegconomis... |
| 14.02.2023 | Checkerspot Closes $55M Series C Funding | Checkerspot, an Alameda, CA and Salt Lake City, UT-based biotechnology company, raised $55M in Serie... | finsmes.co... |
| 09.12.2021 | Breakout Ventures has a new, $112.5 million fund, backed by ... | Breakout Ventures, a San Francisco-based seed- and Series A-stage venture firm that funds what it ca... | techcrunch... |
| 02.06.2021 | Reimagining Materials: Proving Biobased Performance In The O... | Checkerspot, a high-performance materials company created the consumer-facing outdoor brand WNDR ...... | forbes.com... |
| 19.08.2020 | Checkerspot Closes $36M Series B Funding Round | Checkerspot, Inc., a Berkeley, CA and Salt Lake CIty-based materials innovation company, closed its ... | finsmes.co... |
| 17.04.2019 | Term Sheet — Wednesday, April 17 | AIRBNB’S GRAND PLAN While no one was looking, Airbnb has quietly turned into a powerful investor in ... | fortune.co... |
| 16.04.2019 | Top tech startup news for today, Tuesday, April 16, 2019 | Below are some of the top tech startup news stories for today, Tuesday, April 16. Peer to peer (P2P... | techstartu... |
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