Zymergen Stock
Biotechnology Company
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About Zymergen Stock
Zymergen researches, develops, and manufactures microbes for companies. It develops molecules for agriculture, chemicals, materials, pharmaceuticals, electronics, personal care, and more applications. Zymergen’s platform integrates automation, machine learning, and genomics to navigate the genomic search space. It uses a technology platform to optimize microbial strains that aims to improve economics of in-market products, existing production strains within existing manufacturing processes, and the correlation between the lab and commercial manufacturing. Moreover, Zymergen offers new product development, such as engineering any molecules from any microbes that improves the power of biology to develop novel products.
Jed Dean, Joshua J. Hoffman, and Zachary Serber founded the company in 2013, with headquarters in Emeryville in California and an additional office in Seattle in Washington.
Investors
Goldman Sachs
WeWork, Alibaba, Spotify, Compass, Pinterest, Bloom Energy, Oscar Health, Circle, Ramp, Automation Anywhere
Iconiq Capital
Flipkart, Chime, Relativity Space, Articulate, Netskope, DocuSign, Fivetran, Zymergen, ServiceTitan, Procore Technologies
Prelude Ventures, LLC
AME Cloud Ventures
Lacework, Wish, Eat Just, Zymergen, Illumio, Recursion Pharmaceuticals, Freenome, Astranis, FiscalNote, Planet
Funding History
June 2015 | $36.6M |
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June 2015 | $6.6M |
October 2016 | $142M |
November 2018 | $435M |
July 2020 | $350M |
Management
Chief Executive Officer
Joshua Hoffman
Chief Technology Officer
Aaron Kimball
Press
nanalyze - Oct, 1 2020
Solving the World’s Problems With BiomanufacturingTechCrunch - Sep, 9 2020
Zymergen raised $300 million because synthetic biology is so hot right nowgoo - Sep, 8 2020
Zymergen Raises $300M in Fundingfinance - Sep, 8 2020
Zymergen Takes Aim at $3 Trillion Chemical & Materials Industry With $300 Million in New Fundinggenomeweb - Aug, 20 2020
Zymergen, FMC Form Crop Protection Technology Alliance