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Joyn Bio is a joint venture between Ginkgo Bioworks and Leaps by Bayer, founded to bring synthetic biology to the challenges facing sustainability in agriculture. Our first project is to engineer microbes that can provide plants with biological nitrogen fertilizer, decreasing the environmental impact of agriculture.
Overview
Location
United States, Massachusetts, Boston
Employees
51-200
Founded date
2017
Mentions in press and media 16
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| May 13, 2026 | US Senate fertilizer hearing: Farmers ‘can’t take much more’ as prices surge | Soaring fertilizer prices are pushing farmers to a “breaking point” but the Iran conflict is only part of the story, witnesses told lawmakers at a hearing of the Senate Agriculture, Nutrition & Forestry committee this week. Experts call... |
| May 9, 2022 | Synthetic biology and the future of food. In conversation with ‘biology by design’ co Ginkgo Bioworks | Right now, we’re just scratching the surface when it comes to the potential applications of synthetic biology in the food industry, says Boyle (twitter tagline: ‘I was a synthetic biologist before it was cool’) who joined Ginkgo in 2012, a... |
| Apr 13, 2022 | Brief: Ginkgo Bioworks and Elanco launch animal health company BiomEdit | US synthetic biology company Ginkgo Bioworks and Elanco Animal Health Incorporated are launching a “microbiome innovation” company that will develop microbiome-based products and services for improved animal health. The new company, called ... |
| Jul 19, 2021 | Pivot Bio scores $430m in DCVC, Temasek-led Series D round | Pivot Bio has raised $430 million in funding after seeing its revenue increase threefold since the start of this year, it announced today. The Berkeley, California-based ag inputs startup is also releasing its latest nitrogen-fixation produ... |
| Jul 19, 2021 | BREAKING: Pivot Bio scores $430m in DCVC, Temasek-led Series D round | Pivot Bio has raised $430 million in funding after seeing its revenue increase threefold since the start of this year, it announced today. The Berkeley, California-based ag inputs startup is also releasing its latest nitrogen-fixation produ... |
| Jun 7, 2021 | Ginkgo Bioworks partners Asian chemicals giant Sumitomo | US synthetic biology startup Ginkgo Bioworks has signed an R&D collaboration agreement with Japan’s Sumitomo Chemical, one of the world’s largest producers of agrochemicals. In a statement announcing their partnership, the pair said tha... |
| May 21, 2021 | To help solve climate change, look to the biosciences | President Biden’s pledge to cut U.S. greenhouse gas emissions in half by 2030 is an admirable and ambitious undertaking. It’s nearly double the goal set by President Obama in 2015. And it establishes the United States as a world leader in b... |
| Apr 30, 2020 | With fresh support from its billionaire backers Pivot Bio is ushering in a farming revolution | In the first decade of the twentieth century two German chemists, Fritz Haber and Carl Bosch, invented fertilizer — the nitrogen compound which ushered in modern agriculture and saved the world from potential starvation. Now, over a century... |
| Sep 19, 2019 | Ginkgo Bioworks’ dev shop for genetic programming is now worth $4 billion | Ginkgo Bioworks is now worth $4 billion after a $290 million capital infusion that will give the company the cash to dramatically expand its developer shop for genetic programming. The Boston-based company is one of a handful of U.S.-based ... |
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FAQ about Joyn Bio
When was Joyn Bio founded?
Joyn Bio was founded in 2017.
What has the press written about Joyn Bio?
Parsers VC has collected 16 articles mentioning Joyn Bio, among them “US Senate fertilizer hearing: Farmers ‘can’t take much more’ as prices surge” (May 13, 2026) and “Synthetic biology and the future of food. In conversation with ‘biology by design’ co Ginkgo Bioworks” (May 9, 2022).
Is Joyn Bio still active?
Yes, Joyn Bio is active; its latest activity on Parsers VC dates from Oct 13, 2026.