Ginkgo Bioworks

IPO

Our mission is to make biology easier to engineer.

Public · Boston, United States · Founded 2009 · $790.0M raised

Employees
501–1000
Founded
2009
Business Model
B2B
Website
ginkgo.bio
Total Funding
$790.0M
Last Round
$70.0M Extension RoundMay 2020
Rounds
7
Type
Public

Totals include recorded grants and other qualifying funding, not just equity. What counts toward funding.

About

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.

Summary

Ginkgo Bioworks is an Automation company based in Boston, United States, founded in 2009. It has raised $790.0M in total across 7 rounds, most recently a $70.0M Extension Round in May 2020. Investors include Viking Global, Y Combinator and General Atlantic.

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Funding & Exit History

SPAC MergerSPAC Merger with Soaring Eagle Acquisition CorpSep 2021
$1.6B

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Funding: Seed through Extension Round. Amounts, valuations, and investors where available.

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