Ginkgo Bioworks

YC S14 · Public · Our mission is to make biology easier to engineer.

Competitors

Companies closest to Ginkgo Bioworks
Company	Category	Status	Program
EpinomaShared: synthetic biology, engineerActiveOther	Other	Active	YCS21
Pando BioscienceShared: diagnostics, synthetic biology, multipleActiveAI	AI	Active	YCW23
TwentyTwoShared: synthetic biology, engineer, industrial bioActiveAI	AI	Active	YCS25
Culture BiosciencesShared: organism, develop, automationActiveOther	Other	Active	YCW18
LygosShared: synthetic biology, develop, industrial bioActiveOther	Other	Active	YCW16

Adjacent

Companies next to Ginkgo Bioworks
Company	Category	Status	Program
AminoAnalyticaShared: diagnostics, synthetic biology, designActiveAI	AI	Active	YCS24
ACXShared: synthetic biology, mission, scaleActiveOther	Other	Active	YCS24
Ligo BiosciencesShared: synthetic biology, develop, designActiveAI	AI	Active	YCS24
BiocartesianShared: diagnostics, biologyActiveOther	Other	Active	YCS24
MytosShared: automation, multiple, scaleActiveOther	Other	Active	YCS18

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About Ginkgo Bioworks

Ginkgo Bioworks is the organism company. We design custom organisms for customers across multiple markets. We build our foundries to scale the process of organism engineering using software and hardware automation. Organism engineers at Ginkgo learn from nature to develop new organisms that replace technology with biology.

YC batch: S14 · Summer 2014
Status, per YC: Public
Category: Other
Team size: 641
Location: Boston, MA, USA
Checked: 36m ago

YC tags: Synthetic Biology, Diagnostics, Automation

Ginkgo Bioworks in S14: 78 companies, 12% AI

Ginkgo Bioworks: questions

Which YC batch was Ginkgo Bioworks in?

Ginkgo Bioworks was in Y Combinator's Summer 2014 batch (S14).

Is Ginkgo Bioworks still active?

Y Combinator lists Ginkgo Bioworks as public.

Where is Ginkgo Bioworks based?

Ginkgo Bioworks lists Boston, MA, USA as its location on YC's directory.

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