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Ginkgo Bioworks

Wondering who provided funding to Ginkgo Bioworks? Illumina Ventures, General Atlantic and Viking Global Investors invested in this biopharmaceutical company.

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Ginkgo Bioworks is the organism company. We design custom microbes 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.

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Last Transaction

6/1/2020

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Management Team

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Chief Executive Officer

Jason Kelly

        

Founder

Barry Canton

        

Founder

Austin Che

        

Founder

Thomas Knight

        

Founder

Reshma Shetty

        

Company Investors

• Illumina Ventures
• General Atlantic (Michelle Dipp)
• Viking Global Investors
• Allen & Company
• Baillie Gifford
• Senator Investment Group
• Y Combinator (Sam Altman)
• Cascade Investment
• Private Investors (William Gates)
• Felicis Ventures (Aydin Senkut)
• OS Fund (Bryan Johnson)
• Data Collective
• Vast Ventures
• iGlobe Partners

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