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Ginkgo Bioworks Funding & Investors

Boston, MA

Ginkgo Bioworks is a biotech company from the United States founded in 2009 by scientists from MIT and headed by Tom Knight. The company specializes in using genetic engineering to produce bacteria with industrial applications. Ginkgo Bioworks is an analytics company that designs organisms for customers in a range of industries. It is the self-proclaimed "Organism Company" and is one of the world's largest privately held biotech companies. As of 2019, it was valued at $4.2 billion.

https://www.ginkgobioworks.com/

Total Amount Raised: $1,575,403,008

Ginkgo Bioworks Funding Rounds

  • IPO

    Unknown

  • Post Ipo Equity

    $775,000,000

    Post Ipo Equity Investors

    Counterpoint Global
    ARK Investment Management
    T. Rowe Price
    ArrowMark Partners
    Casdin Capital
    Franklin Advisors
    Putnam Investments
    Viking Global Investors
    Cascade Investment
    Bain Capital Public Equity
    Baillie Gifford & Co
  • Series F

    $70,000,000

    Series F Investors

    General Atlantic
    Illumina
    Viking Global Investors
  • Series E

    $290,000,000

    Series E Investors

    Viking Global Investors
    Cascade Investment
    General Atlantic
    T. Rowe Price
  • Series D

    $275,000,000

    Series D Investors

    Bill Gates
    Cascade Investment
    Viking Global Investors
    Y Combinator
    General Atlantic
    bpd partners
  • Series C

    $100,000,000

    Series C Investors

    Senator Investment Group
    Cascade Investment
    Baillie Gifford & Co
    Viking Global Investors
    Allen & Company
    Y Combinator
  • Series B

    $53,328,100

    Series B Investors

    Viking Global Investors
    OS Fund
    Felicis Ventures
    11.2 Capital
    Vast Ventures
    Ken Arnold
    iD Ventures America
    MassVentures
    DCVC
    iGlobe Partners
    Y Combinator
  • Series A

    $9,000,000

    Series A Investors

    Felicis Ventures
    OS Fund
    DCVC
    iGlobe Partners
    Vast Ventures
  • Grant

    $179,999

    Grant Investors

    National Science Foundation (NSF)
  • Seed

    $1,000,000

    Seed Investors

    Y Combinator
    TSVC
    Farzad Nazem
    David Spector
    11.2 Capital
    Todd Corenson
    Ken Cheng
    Ken Arnold
    Arda Kutsal
    Louis Beryl
    Jonathan Downey
    Vast Ventures
    Azure Capital Partners
  • Grant

    $400,000

    Grant Investors

    MassVentures
  • Grant

    $1,314,964

    Grant Investors

    National Science Foundation (NSF)
  • Grant

    $180,000

    Grant Investors

    National Science Foundation (NSF)
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