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Twist Bioscience Funding Round

Tao Capital Partners, Arch Venture Partners and private investors participated in a $26 million Series B venture round for Twist Bioscience. The round was announced on 5/27/2014.

Transaction Overview

Company Name
Announced On
5/27/2014
Transaction Type
Venture Equity
Amount
$26,000,000
Round
Series B
Investors

Tao Capital Partners (Lead Investor)

Arch Venture Partners (Keith Crandell)

private investors (Yuri Milner)

Paladin Capital Group (Paul Conley)

Proceeds Purpose
Twist Bioscience plans to hire 80 employees in the fields of informatics, hardware and software engineering, chemistry, biochemistry, sales and marketing, and operations over the course of the next 18 months.

Company Information

Company Status
Publicly-held
Industry
Biopharmaceutical
Mailing Address
455 Mission Bay Blvd South
San Francisco, CA 94158
USA
Phone
Undisclosed
Email Address
Overview
At Twist Bioscience (Nasdaq: TWST), our expertise is accelerating science and innovation by leveraging the power of scale. We have developed a proprietary semiconductor-based synthetic DNA manufacturing process featuring a 10,000-well silicon platform capable of producing synthetic biology tools, including genes, oligonucleotide pools and variant libraries.
Profile
Twist Bioscience LinkedIn Company Profile
Social Media
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Company News
Twist Bioscience News
Facebook
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YouTube
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Management Team

Title
Name
Email & Social
Chief Executive Officer
Emily Leproust
  Emily Leproust LinkedIn Profile  Emily Leproust Twitter Account  Emily Leproust News  Emily Leproust on Facebook
Chief Financial Officer
Solange Glaize
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Chief Operating Officer
Bill Banyai
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Chief Technical Officer
Bill Peck
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VP - Operations
Patrick Weiss
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VP - Sales
Patrick Finn
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