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Twist Bioscience Funding Round

Twist Bioscience closed a $27 million funding round on 6/15/2017. Investors included Bay City Capital, Biomatics Capital Partners and Reinet Investments.

Transaction Overview

Company Name
Announced On
6/15/2017
Transaction Type
Venture Equity
Amount
$27,000,000
Round
Undisclosed
Proceeds Purpose
Twist Bioscience expects to use the funding to facilitate increased growth in the company's core business of gene synthesis and increased investment into two vertical market segments of drug discovery and DNA digital data storage.

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.
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Management Team

Title
Name
Email & Social
Chief Executive Officer
Emily Leproust
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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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