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Ginkgo Bioworks

Our mission is to make biology easier to engineer.

Y CombinatorSummer 2014PublicHealthcareIndustrial BioSynthetic BiologyDiagnosticsAutomation

What they do

Problem

Organizations struggle to reliably and cost-effectively engineer biological organisms for new products and processes across industries.

Solution

Ginkgo Bioworks provides a scalable organism-engineering platform and foundries that use software and automation to design and build custom organisms for customers.

Who it's for

Companies across multiple markets that need custom engineered microbes or organisms for R&D and commercial products.

Founders

Barry Canton
Founder
Austin Che
Founder
Jason Kelly
Founder
Tom Knight
Founder
Reshma Shetty
Founder

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