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Custom Microbes Design

Ginkgo Bioworks is a biotech company that designs custom microbes. The company creates custom microbes for three main areas: cultured ingredients, strain improvement, and enzymes. For cultured ingredients, Ginkgo Bioworks creates engineered yeasts to produce ingredients via fermentation for perfumes, foods, cosmetics, etc. For strain improvement, Ginkgo Bioworks engineers in-use organisms to improve efficiency and sustainability. For enzymes, Ginkgo Bioworks aims to discover "better" enzymes for various applications, such as cheesemaking and pharmaceuticals. Ginkgo Bioworks' platform consists of its Foundries and Codebase. Foundries are Ginkgo Bioworks way to automate organism design and Codebase is Ginkgo Bioworks' library of cell, enzyme and genetic programs that help jumpstart new programs and discoveries. Ginkgo Bioworks was founded in 2009. The company is based in Boston, Massachusetts.

About Ginkgo Bioworks Stock

Founded

2008

Headquarters

Boston, MA, US

Total Funding

1.1B

Industries

Science and Engineering, Health Care, Biotechnology

Ginkgo Bioworks is a biotech company that designs custom microbes. The company creates custom microbes for three main areas: cultured ingredients, strain improvement, and enzymes. For cultured ingredients, Ginkgo Bioworks creates engineered yeasts to produce ingredients via fermentation for perfumes, foods, cosmetics, etc. For strain improvement, Ginkgo Bioworks engineers in-use organisms to improve efficiency and sustainability. For enzymes, Ginkgo Bioworks aims to discover "better" enzymes for various applications, such as cheesemaking and pharmaceuticals.

Ginkgo Bioworks' platform consists of its Foundries and Codebase. Foundries are Ginkgo Bioworks way to automate organism design and Codebase is Ginkgo Bioworks' library of cell, enzyme and genetic programs that help jumpstart new programs and discoveries.

Ginkgo Bioworks was founded in 2009. The company is based in Boston, Massachusetts.

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Ginkgo Bioworks Management

Leadership team at Ginkgo Bioworks

Chief Executive Officer

Jason Kelly

Co-Founder

Barry Canton

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