
Ginkgo Bioworks
IPOOur mission is to make biology easier to engineer.
Public · Boston, United States · Founded 2009 · $790.0M raised
- Headquarters
- Boston, Massachusetts
- 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
Sep 2021
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Funding: Seed through Extension Round. Amounts, valuations, and investors where available.
Investors
Viking Global
5 rounds
Y Combinator
4 rounds

General Atlantic
3 rounds

Felicis Ventures
2 rounds
Soaring Eagle Acquisition Corp
1 round
Cascade Investment
4 rounds
Baillie Gifford
3 rounds
Senator Investment Group
3 rounds
OS Fund
2 rounds
Putnam Investments
1 round

ArrowMark Partners
1 round
Bain Capital Public Equity
1 round
Berkshire Partners
1 round

Casdin Capital
1 round
ARK Invest
1 round
Franklin Templeton
1 round
Morgan Stanley
1 round
Illumina Ventures
1 round
T. Rowe Price
1 round
Allen & Company
1 round

DCVC (Data Collab)
1 round
iGlobe Partners
1 round

Vast Ventures
1 round

Azure Capital Partners
1 round
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