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| Jun 3, 2025 | Top Startup and Tech Funding News – June 3, 2025 | It’s Tuesday, June 3, 2025, and we’re back with your daily funding snapshot of where venture capital is flowing and which startups are shaping the next wave of tech innovation.
Today’s lineup spans everything from brain-computer interfaces ... |
| Apr 21, 2025 | GridX Connects U.S. Biotech Investors with Latin America’s Untapped Innovation Potential | BUENOS AIRES–(BUSINESS WIRE)–April 21, 2025–
GridX, Latin America’s largest biotechnology investment fund and company builder, is set to begin its international Roadshow featuring 21 innovative startups across three strategic U.S. cities, b... |
| Nov 28, 2024 | The Week in AgriFoodTech: AI-powered protein, plant-based food dyes, and maggot robots | It’s Thanksgiving in the US, which usually means family, friends, and food waste: ReFED estimates that 316 million pounds of food will go to waste this holiday. However, the think tank also has some tips for how households can help curb thi... |
| May 21, 2024 | 🎥Hyfé looks to waste streams to power the next generation of sustainable feedstocks for biomanufacturing | If the bioeconomy is really going to take off, do we need to pay more attention to the feedstocks fueling this trend?
Right now, says Hyfé cofounder Michelle Ruiz, microbial fermentation typically runs on purified sugars such as corn dextro... |
| May 17, 2024 | 🎥 Wild Microbes CEO: ‘Today the bioeconomy runs on a handful of microorganisms; in future it will run on hundreds’ | Right now, a handful of microbial workhorses do the bulk of the work in biomanufacturing, which is billed as a more sustainable means of producing products currently derived from petrochemicals and industrialized animal agriculture. But do ... |
| May 14, 2024 | New Culture strikes strategic partnership with CJ CheilJedang to ‘unlock commodity pricing’ for dairy via precision fermentation | New Culture—a startup making casein proteins via precision fermentation to create ‘animal-free’ mozzarella—has announced a strategic partnership with Korean biomanufacturing giant CJ CheilJedang, giving it access to “some of the largest an... |
| May 13, 2024 | 🎥Hoxton Farms tackles fat, the final frontier for alt meat | [Disclosure: AgFunderNews’ parent company AgFunder is an investor in Hoxton Farms]
Founded by synthetic biologist Dr. Max Jamilly and mathematician and computer scientist Ed Steele in 2020, Hoxton Farms is one of a handful of startups devel... |
| Oct 4, 2023 | Aanika Biosciences woos growers by bundling its bio barcodes with insurance: ‘We’re putting our money where our mouth is’ | Tagging your produce with our edible ‘biological barcodes’ will cost money, Aanika Biosciences founder Vishaal Bhuyan used to tell potential customers. But product recalls and the associated hassle and PR nightmares will cost you a lot more... |
| Jul 13, 2023 | The Week in AgriFoodTech: Aphea.Bio scores $78m for biologicals, Do Good Foods files Ch. 11, Chipotle’s avocado robots | Good news this week arrived in the form of funding rounds for biologicals maker Aphea.Bio and infant formula startup Bobbie, amongst several others. Less sunny was news that upcycled chicken company Do Good Foods filed for Chapter 11 bankru... |
| Jul 7, 2023 | Meet the founder: Pow.bio’s Ouwei Wang on why a continuous process could radically change the economics of precision fermentation | Thanks to synthetic biology, engineered microbes can now make everything from carotenoids to human milk oligosaccharides. But the bioeconomy will only take off if the precision fermentation process can be made more efficient, says Berkeley-... |
| Jun 20, 2023 | This Startup Is Rewriting The Language Of Life To Make Smart Biologics | Pearl Bio co-founders: Michael Jewett, Amy Cayne Schwartz, and Farren Isaacs.Pearl Bio. |
| Jun 19, 2023 | 🎥 Precision fermentation: When does it make commercial sense? | Thanks to advances in synthetic biology, we can now engineer microbes to produce everything from enzymes to dairy proteins in fermentation tanks. But when does it make commercial sense?
AgFunder News (AFN) caught up with Dr. Casey Lippmeier... |
| Jun 12, 2023 | 🎥 Verb Biotics: Next gen ‘precision biotics’ will deliver ‘measurable effects that consumers can feel’ | Microbiome health startup Verb Biotics is gearing up to launch its first products in the first quarter of 2024, two and a half years after it was spun out of synthetic biology company Ginkgo Bioworks.
Launched in September 2021 with $30 mil... |
| Jun 9, 2023 | The Startup Bringing Home The $400B Bacon…Minus The Pig | Uncommon's burgerUncommon |
| Jun 7, 2023 | 🎥 Could fruit flies give microbes a run for their money? Future Fields thinks outside the fermentation tank | Microbes such as yeast and E. coli have been the workhorses of recombinant protein production for decades. But could the humble fruit fly give them a run for their money?
It’s early days, but given the upfront capex and high running costs a... |
| Jun 1, 2023 | Cultivated meat: Foodtech fantasy or the future of meat? ‘None of this stuff makes any commercial sense until everyone’s eating it’ | Two years ago, chemical engineer and engineering consultant Dr. Dave Humbird published a techno-economic analysis concluding that cultivated meat faced “intractable” challenges at food scale. While critics say technical advances in the fiel... |
| Jun 1, 2023 | 🎥SCiFi Foods on cultivated meat unit economics: ‘We can make a blended product commercially viable without needing crazy-scale bioreactors’ | Some commentators argue that cultivated meat faces intractable challenges at food scale, and that growing meat in bioreactors at scale is a food tech fantasy. So are they right? It all depends on your approach, says Joshua March, cofounder ... |
| May 31, 2023 | Algae’s second bloom? ‘Resiliency and productivity are key,’ say second generation startups | Between 2005-2012, venture capitalists poured millions of dollars into startups attempting to make fuel from microalgae, getting their fingers badly burned in the process. But could algae be gearing up for a second bloom?
“Having gone throu... |
| May 30, 2023 | 🎥 Meatable CEO: ‘We believe we have the fastest process in the field to make cultivated meat’ | Dutch startup Meatable has slashed production times for cultivated pork from three weeks to eight days in the past year by dramatically speeding up the process by which its stem cells differentiate into fat and muscle, transforming its unit... |
| May 23, 2023 | This Record Breaking Dutch Startup Just Made Cultivated Meat In 8 Days | Meatable cofounders with new pork product, dumplingsMeatable |
| May 22, 2023 | Vinod Khosla Backed Unicorn Launches New AI-Enabled Lab Robot | Jon Brennan-Badal with Opentrons Flex IIIOpentrons |
| May 13, 2023 | Why Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt Is Betting Big On The $1T US Bioeconomy | John Cumbers, George Church, and Eric Schmidt at the SynBioBeta conference.SynBioBeta |
| May 11, 2023 | Synthetic Biology Gets The Gucci Treatment | .LanzaTech |
| Apr 24, 2023 | Synthetic Biology Is Set To Explode, But Only Once This Huge Bottleneck Is Gone | Matt Hill, CEO and Founder of Elegen Bio.Elegen Bio |
| Apr 11, 2023 | This Desktop Machine Is About To Transform The Decades-Old DNA Synthesis Industry | Thomas Ybert, CEO of DNA Script.Thomas Ybert |
| Apr 4, 2023 | A New Raspberry Flavor For Your Tastebuds: Brought To You By Fermentation | Jens Kleins, co-founder and CEO of Insempra.Insempra |
| Apr 3, 2023 | Sensible Biotechnologies And Ginkgo Bioworks Announce Partnership To Make In Vivo RNA To Unlock The Promise Of RNA Therapeutics | Sensible Biotechnologies co-founders: Chief Scientific Officer Marian Kupculak (left) and Chief ... [+] Executive Officer Miroslav Gasparek (right) in the Sensible Biotechnologies lab space in Slovakia.Romana Halova |
| Apr 1, 2023 | Drug Development For Neglected Tropical Diseases Is Finally Getting A Tool That Can Get The Job Done | The Collaborative Drug Discovery community engages in an array of drug discovery and development ... [+] research across the globe.Collaborative Drug Discovery |
| Mar 28, 2023 | 10 Women Founders Taking The Synthetic Biology World By Storm | Synthetic Biology is one of the most exciting technologies of the decade that promises to reimagine entire industries and solve the economic, societal, and environmental problems of the twenty-first century. The recent signing of the Execut... |
| Mar 27, 2023 | Meet The Three Berkeley Dropouts Empowering Biotechs With Low-Code Cloud-Based Biocomputing | LatchBio founders: Alfredo Andere, Kenny Workman, and Kyle Giffin.LatchBio |
| Mar 23, 2023 | U.S. Government Sets Bold Goals For The U.S. Bioeconomy – Including A Target For 30% Of Bio-Based Chemicals | .Canva |
| Mar 1, 2023 | Meet The Company Bridging Synthetic Biology Innovation With The World Of Insurance To Ensure Safe Food Production | Aanika Biosciences CEO and co-founder Vishaal Bhuyan showcases his company’s spore tag product, ... [+] about to be applied to a field ready for harvest.Aanika Biosciences |
| Feb 28, 2023 | Absci Takes Its Generative AI Antibody Design Platform To Europe | Christine Lemke, SVP of Portfolio & Growth Strategy, Andreas Busch, Chief Innovation Officer, and ... [+] Christian Stegmann, SVP of Drug Creation at Absci.Absci |
| Feb 27, 2023 | Meet Form Bio, The Spinout From The Woolly Mammoth Company That Just Raised $150 Million | Form Bio team at their office in Austin, TX.Form Bio |
| Feb 22, 2023 | Thinking Outside The Tank: Why This Startup Thinks Fruit Flies Will Solve Synbio’s Scale-Up Problem | Future FieldsFuture Fields |
| Feb 9, 2023 | Microbial Immunotherapy Company Prokarium Raises $30M On Heels Of Ginkgo Bioworks Partnership | Prokarium CEO Kristen Albright.Prokarium |
| Jan 30, 2023 | Longevity Startup VitaDAO Raises $4.1m, Backed By Pfizer, Balaji Srinivasan | VitaDAO is developing drug assets as IP-NFTs VitaDAO, scientific illustration by Dani Bergey |
| Jan 25, 2023 | Brooklyn Evolution Startup Melonfrost Raises $7 Million To Make More Microbes | .Melonfrost |
| Jan 24, 2023 | Ginkgo Bioworks Fires Up Its Bio Foundry To Take On The Billion-Dollar Enzyme Market | Ginkgo Bioworks banner on the façade of the New York Stock Exchange building.Ginkgo Bioworks |
| Jan 11, 2023 | Biomanufacturing Startup Visolis Has Raised $8 Million To Make Carbon-Negative Materials | Visolis founder and CEO, Deepak Dugar, in the lab. Visolis |
| Jan 5, 2023 | Drug Manufacturing Has One Huge Flaw. This Synthetic Biology Startup Just Raised $200 Million To Fix It. | The four Asimov co-founders, from left to right: Doug Densmore, Alec Nielsen, Raja Srinivas and ... [+] Chris Voigt.Asimov. |
| Dec 22, 2022 | C16 Biosciences Has Built A Palm Oil Farm In Midtown Manhattan To Stop Global Deforestation | C16 Biosciences founders in the company’s office in Manhattan, NY.C16 Biosciences |
| Dec 13, 2022 | Biodiversity Makes Good Business: Basecamp Research Just Raised $20 Million To Build A Database Of All Life | Charlie Yeo and John Cumbers at the Sarawak Biodiversity CentreJohn Cumbers |
| Nov 20, 2022 | Democracies Must Empower a Biotech Future for All | Editor’s Note: Although the science of biotechnology is moving forward at breakneck speed, regulation, diplomatic agreements, and other forms of control remain limited at best. Stanford University’s Megan Palmer, Georgetown’s Andrew Imbrie ... |
| Nov 18, 2022 | This Biotech Company’s Goal Is To Have A Plant-Based American Flag Fly Over The White House | An American flag made out of corn.Stable Diffusion algorithm. |
| Nov 17, 2022 | Startup Cradle Lets You Design Custom Proteins By Just Typing In A Prompt | Cradle Team at their site in the Netherlands.Cradle |
| Nov 2, 2022 | Synthetic Biology: Twist Bioscience Revenue Growing From $2 To $200 Million As It Eyes The $186 Billion Antibody Market | Emily Leproust, Patrick Finn, Aaron Sato, and Tracey Mullen of Twist Bioscience. Twist Bioscience |
| Jan 25, 2022 | This Stem Cell Manufacturing Startup Just Raised An $80 Million War Chest To Revolutionize Medicine | Nabiha Saklayen, CEO and co-founder of Cellino Cellino |
| Jan 4, 2022 | 8 vegan and alt-meat food trends you won’t be able to escape this year | Food items from Chef Matthew Kenney’s Liora restaurant. Courtesy of Liora
As more people seek out vegan foods and alt-meat products, more are becoming available.
This year will be no different, as vegan options become easier to find and foo... |
| Jan 4, 2022 | 8 vegan and alt-meat food trends you won't be able to escape this year | Redeem now
As more people seek out vegan foods and alt-meat products, more are becoming available.
This year will be no different, as vegan options become easier to find and food tech ushers in novel proteins.
These are the trends to watch ... |
| Dec 6, 2021 | Cellular agriculture & emerging markets: Just because we can, does it mean we should? | Saron Berhane is an agrifoodtech entrepreneur based in Sydney, Australia.
The views expressed in this guest commentary are the author’s own and do not necessarily reflect those of AFN.
Alt-protein is taking the food world by storm. Plant-ba... |
| Oct 14, 2021 | How Culture Biosciences Is Meeting The Demand For Large-Scale Biomanufacturing | Culture Lab TeamCulture Biosciences |
| Sep 27, 2021 | What Drives Newly Minted Crispr Unicorn Mammoth Biosciences | Mammoth co-founders (from left) Trevor Martin, Janice Chen, and Lucas Harrington Mammoth Biosciences |
| Sep 17, 2021 | Record $15 Billion SPAC Merger Just Happened For A Technology You've Never Heard Of | Ginkgo Bioworks founders (from left) Jason Kelly, Barry Canton, Reshma Shetty, Austin Che, and Tom ... [+] Knight. Credit: John Cumbers John Cumbers |
| Aug 11, 2021 | Why Is Science Still On Spreadsheets? Meet The Company Moving Biology Into The Cloud | Digitized, cloud-based biology could significantly increase the reproducibility and speed of biology ... [+] innovation.Pixabay |
| Jul 29, 2021 | Bota Bio Raises $100 Million As Biology Disrupts The Chemical Industry With Sustainable Manufacturing | Sustainable biomanufacturing has the potential to eliminate the harmful environmental impact of the ... [+] product we use every day. Canva |
| Jul 19, 2021 | Computer-Designed Enzymes Brings Sustainability Home To Consumers | The new partnership between protein-design company, Arzeda, and global products manufacturer, ... [+] Unilever, could make products like these detergents significantly more sustainable.Unilever |
| Jun 23, 2021 | Collaborative Technology Is Making Drug Discovery Easier And Faster | Developing large, complex RNA molecules for novel therapeutics requires close collaboration between ... [+] biology and chemistry. Image: Flickr Stephen Curry |
| Jun 8, 2021 | Sustainable Tuna Becomes A Reality On World Ocean Day | To celebrate World Oceans Day, Finless Foods announced its new plant-based tuna product that offers ... [+] a way for consumers to support healthy oceans. Finless Foods |
| May 27, 2021 | Renowned ‘Drug Hunter’ Joins Team To Cure Challenging Brain Diseases | Sharath Hegde, the new Chief Scientific Officer of HerophilusHerophilus |
| May 26, 2021 | This Company Is Freeing Manufacturers From Petrochemicals With Biology | Jens Klein, founder and CEO of Origin.Bio.Origin.Bio |
| May 25, 2021 | Meet The Collaboration Solving Some Of Antibody Discovery’s Toughest Problems | Berkeley LightsBerkeley Lights |
| May 13, 2021 | How New Technology Is Making Plant-Based Foods Taste And Look Better | Motif’s prolamin technology in action via a plant-based cheese pull. Prolamin protein improves the ... [+] stretch and melting of plant-based cheese.Motif FoodWorks |
| Apr 7, 2021 | New Genome Test Shows A Child’s Risk Of Disease — Before They’re Born | CEO of Orchid, Noor SiddiquiOrchid |
| Mar 1, 2021 | The Meatless Mafia: Four Companies Revolutionizing The Future Of Food | Lisa Dyson, CEO of Air Protein (top left), Eben Bayer, CEO of Atlast Food (top right) Pat Brown, CEO ... [+] of Impossible Foo (bottom left), Ryan Bethencourt, CEO of Wild Earth (bottom right) Air Protein, Atlast Food Co., Impossible Foods,... |
| Feb 23, 2021 | Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Just Got An Automation Boost From IoT | CEO of Phizzle, Ben Davis. Phizzle |
| Feb 17, 2021 | America, Your Diet Is Killing You: Why The Glucose Crisis Will Be Worse Than The Opioid Crisis | |
| Feb 4, 2021 | Synthetic Biology Startup Acquires AI Platform To Disrupt The Drug Industry | Sean McClain, Co-Founder and CEO of AbSci.AbSci |
| Feb 2, 2021 | New Synthetic Biology Venture Fund Puts ‘Scientist Founders’ First | New biotech venture fund, NFX Bio, will be led by (from left): Dr. Omri Amirav Drory, Dr. Emily ... [+] Leproust, and James Currier. Not pictured: Gigi Levy-Weiss NFX, Twist, and SynBioBeta |
| Feb 1, 2021 | The Unexplored Power of Microbes | Thermus aquaticus, more commonly called Taq, is a critical microorganism in synthetic biology ... [+] research and disease diagnostics. Taq thrives in thermal pools such as this one in Yellowstone National Park.Photo by Dan Meyers on Unspla... |
| Jan 27, 2021 | Synthetic Biology Partners With AI To Delete Food Allergies | Millions of people globally suffer from food allergies or related diseases like celiac. But a new ... [+] method from Israeli startup Ukko aims to create hypoallergenic gluten and peanut proteins. These proteins could eventually create brea... |
| Jan 26, 2021 | More Bacon, Less Guilt - This Startup Is Taking On The American Classic | MyBacon on a plate. The product is the first whole-cut alternative meat offering from Atlast’s ... [+] consumer-facing company, MyEats. Atlast |
| Jan 11, 2021 | Could Crispr Eradicate Acne? | Eligo Bioscience's management team from left: CEO Xavier Duportet, PhD, Chief Business Officer, ... [+] Aurélie Grienenberger, PhD, and CSO David Bikard, PhDEligo Bioscience |
| Dec 10, 2020 | What If You Could Change Your Immune System By Wearing Earbuds? Meet The Startup That Could Make It Possible | Non-invasive, wearable tech could usher in a new generation of personalized therapeutics. Unveiled ... [+] today, startup Nēsos aims to treat rheumatoid arthritis by reinforcing the brain’s natural pathways. Nēsos |
| Dec 8, 2020 | Building Customer Awareness for the Next Biotech Startup: Lessons from Brands & Biology | Mycelium-based company Bolt Threads grew gifts for investors to show the power of their technology. ... [+] These organic structures don’t only tell the story of technology, they show the art and beauty of what’s possible with biology. SynB... |
| Dec 8, 2020 | The Stunning Pace Of Progress: One Year In, Covid-19 Treatments And Vaccines Are Close At Hand (INFOGRAPHIC) | Medical science is succeeding in the midst of a global health crisis. SynBioBeta |
| Nov 13, 2020 | Can We Recreate Every Human Cell Type In The Body? This UK Startup Thinks So. | Bit Bio, a UK synthetic biology startup backed by Silicon Valley investors, has partnered with the ... [+] London Institute for Mathematical Sciences, marking a milestone in the fusion of biology and mathematics for coding human cells.Bit B... |
| Nov 4, 2020 | Cell-Based Collagen Company Looks To Disrupt Traditional Supply Chains For A Better World | Stephanie Michelsen is the co-founder of Jellatech, the world’s first cell-based collagen and ... [+] gelatin ingredient company.Stephanie Michelsen |
| Oct 28, 2020 | Bill Gates-Backed Ginkgo Bioworks Has A New $40 Million Spinout Using Synthetic Biology To Clean Wastewater | Nicole Richards, CEO of Allonnia.Patty Connelly Photography |
| Sep 16, 2020 | Could A Chief Biology Officer Make Your Company More Profitable? | If you're like most companies, you probably don't have a Chief Biology Officer. But if you want to ... [+] stay competitive and drive innovation, you will.getty |
| Sep 11, 2020 | Bioeconomy Powerhouse Berkeley Lights Nearly Triples Since IPO, Now Valued At $3.9 Billion | How small groups of live cells can be plucked like needles from a haystack: An assay performed by ... [+] the University of Queensland on a Berkeley Lights' NanoPen™ for their COVID-19 treatment research. Berkeley Lights, Inc. |
| Sep 9, 2020 | Synthetic Biology Startups Raised $3 Billion In The First Half Of 2020 | (Getty Images/Luis Alvarez) |
| Sep 3, 2020 | Demetrix Is Scaling The Cannabinoid Industry | Demetrix CEO Jeff UbersaxGarrett Birkel |
| Sep 2, 2020 | The Drug Supply Chain Is Broken. A New Breakthrough Paves The Way For On-Demand Plant-Based Medicines | When Covid hit and hospitals started reporting drug shortages, it became clear that our drug supply ... [+] chain was broken. In a Nature paper, Christina Smolke reports a breakthrough in making plant-based medicines that lays the foundatio... |
| Aug 12, 2020 | 15 Rare Species In Danger From The Wakashio Vessel Oil Disaster In Mauritius | Wildlife sanctuary, Ile aux Aigrettes, at the center of the oil spill housed many of the rarest ... [+] species not found anywhere else in the world, such as Mauritius' Ornate Day Gecko seen hereMauritius Wildlife Foundation |
| May 23, 2020 | Mike Kamdar, The Future Of DNA Writing, And The Business Of Biology | With a new way to write DNA, Mike Kamdar and his team at Molecular Assemblies are poised to disrupt just about any industry you can imagine. |
| Mar 5, 2020 | NASA Is Quietly Funding This Project To Understand How Synthetic Biology Can Support Human Life In Space | Revolutionary food production and closed-loop biomanufacturing could transform human space travel and address the growing food crisis on Earth. |
| Nov 27, 2019 | Британский биотех-стартап с инвестициями H&M разработал технологию окрашивания тканей с помощью бактерий Статьи редакции | Colorifix уже готовится к испытаниям на производстве и планирует начать продажи красителя в 2020 году.
Британский биотех-стартап Colorifix разработал технологию окрашивания тканей с помощью бактерий. Метод компании исключает использование о... |
| Oct 16, 2019 | Amarna raises €10M to push gene therapy platform into clinic; Editas Medicine, AskBio join forces | → Amarna Therapeutics — developing an SV40-based gene delivery vector platform called SVac — has raised €10 million. The round was led by Swedish investment company Flerie Invest AB, along with contributions from the Net... |
| Sep 27, 2019 | How To Spot A Synthetic Biology Unicorn | Biotech is projected to reach $775 billion by 2024, but dozens of companies in the field of ... [+] synthetic biology are creating magical tools to go beyond that. Look here for the next unicorn. Jelena Trmčić for SynBioBeta |
| Aug 30, 2019 | WATCH: This Two-Minute Synthetic Biology Video Is A Far-Out Vision Of The Future | In this conception of bio meets space tech, a SpaceX capsule journeys through the cosmos. The outer ... [+] shield self-repairs while other parts of the ship convert waste carbon into useful materials.Vasil Hnatiuk |
| Jul 9, 2019 | Geltor, Creator of Pioneering Collagen From Human Cells, Seeking Partners | Biodesign company Geltor introduced its HumaColl21™ at the in-cosmetics Global trade show in Paris this March. Its groundbreaking beauty ingredient is a lab-grown version of human Type 21 collagen which, unlike other collagen products, invo... |
| Apr 16, 2019 | Daily funding roundup - April 16th, 2019 | Spur raised $8M; Flowspace secured $12M; Checkerspot landed $13M; Zencargo closed $19M
Skoove: Skoove is the easiest way to learn piano, with the world's first interactive online piano lessons. Skoove has raised €3 million from Caparuca, MG... |
| Mar 25, 2019 | Top 20 Innovative Food Startups in 2018 | Innovative Food is a category of agrifood tech startups encompassing novel food products and ingredients such as alternative meat – both plant-based and cell-culture-based — insect protein, alternative sugars, and flavor enhancers.
In 2018,... |
| Aug 13, 2018 | Using CRISPR for the ‘smaller wins,’ like making chemotherapy less toxic | Although the phrase “war on cancer” was first uttered in 1971, the breakthroughs in biomedical research that have emerged during this decade have supercharged the fight. The introduction of CRISPR-Cas9 — the molecular scissors that can edit... |
| Dec 14, 2017 | Ginkgo Bioworks secures $275 million in Series D, valuing the company at over $1 billion | Boston biotech startup Ginkgo Bioworks has announced the raise of $275 million in Series D funding to build out its Bioworks3 production facility.
The funding comes from previous investors Viking Global, Y Combinator’s Continuity Fund, Casc... |
| Dec 14, 2017 | Ginkgo Bioworks Raises $275M Series D from General Atlantic | Ginkgo Bioworks, the organism company, today announced the opening of Bioworks3 – Ginkgo's third foundry for prototyping and scaling engineered organisms. This expansion is supported by $275 million in a Series D round with participation fr... |
| Apr 4, 2017 | Data Collective and SynBioBeta founder John Cumbers launch a seed stage biotech fund | Dr. John Cumbers, founder of SynBioBeta
Data Collective (DCVC) is bringing Dr. John Cumbers, the founder of synthetic biology platform SynBioBeta and setting him up with his own biotech fund for pre-seed and seed stage startups, aptly calle... |
| Sep 28, 2015 | Synthetic Biology Is Not Just Good, It’s Good For You | Emily Leproust Contributor
Emily Leproust is CEO of Twist Bioscience.
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