
Ginkgo Bioworks is a leading horizontal platform for cell programming that provides flexible, end-to-end synthetic biology services across diverse markets including food, agriculture, pharmaceuticals, industrial, and specialty chemicals. The company leverages a $1 billion R&D platform combining highly automated labs, AI tools, and deep scientific expertise to accelerate research and development projects. Ginkgo offers custom R&D solutions, packaged services, and low-cost R&D tools to solve complex biological challenges, enabling partners to program cells like computers using DNA code. Their platform supports industries such as agriculture, biopharma, biosecurity, government, and industrial biotechnology, positioning Ginkgo as a key innovation partner in synthetic biology with broad market reach and advanced technological capabilities.

Ginkgo Bioworks is a leading horizontal platform for cell programming that provides flexible, end-to-end synthetic biology services across diverse markets including food, agriculture, pharmaceuticals, industrial, and specialty chemicals. The company leverages a $1 billion R&D platform combining highly automated labs, AI tools, and deep scientific expertise to accelerate research and development projects. Ginkgo offers custom R&D solutions, packaged services, and low-cost R&D tools to solve complex biological challenges, enabling partners to program cells like computers using DNA code. Their platform supports industries such as agriculture, biopharma, biosecurity, government, and industrial biotechnology, positioning Ginkgo as a key innovation partner in synthetic biology with broad market reach and advanced technological capabilities.
Headquarters: Boston, Massachusetts
Founded: 2016
Sector: Medtech / diagnostics
Outcome: Assets acquired by Ginkgo Bioworks (announced Jun 6, 2022)
Notable funding: NSF grant (May 6, 2020); investors include NSF and SOSV
Real-time physiological volume and metabolite monitoring to support clinical decision-making and biometric tracking.
2016
Medical devices / Diagnostics
Reported grant round (May 6, 2020)
“Included grant funding from the National Science Foundation and investors listed such as SOSV and HAX”