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Ginkgo Bioworks

Our mission is to make biology easier to engineer.

y-combinatorSummer 2014Synthetic BiologyDiagnosticsAutomation🇺🇸 Boston641 peoplehiring
Public
Austin Che
Barry Canton
Jason Kelly
Reshma Shetty
Tom Knight

Austin Che, Barry Canton +3 · 5 co-founders

2026Public
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641
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Co-founders
5
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Public
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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.

5 founders