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Ginkgo Bioworks

Biotech & Life Sciences · Boston, United States · Founded 2008 · Public via SPAC 2021

Automated cell programming and biological engineering platform.

Valuation $566M
Revenue $106M
Power Law Unicorn$1–10B valuation tier Thoroughbred$100M+ revenue
Knowledge graph
News Terra Genomics raises $3.3M seed to engineer microbes for farm biologicals Sep 1, 2026 News Transfyr launches with $25M seed to close science's physical-to-digital gap Aug 27, 2026 Market map US Advanced Materials Startups Jun 25, 2026 News Ayana Bio and Brevel net $1.25M BIRD grant to test illuminated fermentation for plant cell culture Jun 4, 2026 Market map Molecular farming

Talent graph

Ginkgo Bioworks's talent

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Employees mapped 520 incl. 22 AI specialists
Founders Hidden — book a demo/100 quality score
Key operators 13 quality Hidden — book a demo/100
Potential founders Hidden — book a demo likely future founders
Startup mafia 5 alumni-founded startups
Talent movements Hidden — book a demo in · Hidden — book a demo out past 12 months

Source: Dealroom Talent Intelligence.

Investors

25 investors on Ginkgo Bioworks's cap table

Sourced from Dealroom's funding history. Investor profile links are shown where available.

Seed 4 investors entered at this stage
Y Combinator
Farzad (Zod) Nazem
TSVC
Hari Raghavan
Series A 7 investors entered at this stage
Ian McNish
Felicis
Justin Kan
Vast Ventures
OS Fund
David Beyer
iGlobe Partners
Series B+ 14 investors entered at this stage
Allen & Company
Starling Ventures
General Atlantic
11.2 Capital
Baillie Gifford
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cascade Investment
Illumina
DARPA
Viking Global Investors
T. Rowe Price
MicroVentures
Bill Gates
Senator Investment Group

Ginkgo Bioworks mafia

Startups founded by Ginkgo Bioworks alumni

Former Ginkgo Bioworks employees who went on to start their own companies. Sorted by Dealroom signal score.

Ayana BioEst. 2021
Effendi LeonardUnited States
Signal score78
Joyn BioEst. 2018
Brynne StantonUnited States
Signal score77
Ayble HealthEst. 2020
SJSam JactelUnited States
Signal score74
Octant BioEst. 2017
Sri KosuriUnited States
Signal score68
Cypher AIEst. 2025
YYYaoyu YangUnited States
Signal score46

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Global footprint

Where Ginkgo Bioworks has talent and traffic

Workforce by country
🇺🇸 United States · Boston HQ
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Web traffic by country
5.7K monthly visits
across markets
🇺🇸 United States80.7%
🇯🇵 Japan10.5%
🇮🇳 India5.3%
🇩🇪 Germany3.5%
🇮🇹 Italy1.8%
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Patent intelligence

$349M patent portfolio · 252 active families

Estimated portfolio value
$349M
61.6% of market cap · 3242.7× larger than top peer Colossal ($108k)
252 active patent families
Where Ginkgo Bioworks innovates Biological organismBiotechnologyMicrobiologyMicroorganismMolecular biology

Where Ginkgo Bioworks concentrates vs peers

Each axis is a top-10 topic across Ginkgo Bioworks and its closest peers. #1 = 100, #10 = 10, absent = 0.

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Source: Dealroom Patent Intelligence · Patsnap. Request a demo for the full per-sub-category breakdown, individual records, and quality-score history.

Capital deployed

Ginkgo Bioworks's 19 investments and acquisitions.

Every disclosed deal where Ginkgo Bioworks appeared as a backer or acquirer, 2017–2024. Toggle between venture rounds, M&A, or both. The map below is grouped by the target company's sector — the colored pill on each chip is the round type.

Portfolio analysis

19 deals across Ginkgo Bioworks's capital deployment.

Where the deals concentrate by sector, stage, and decade.

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        01 · Deployment strategy vs peers

        Where Ginkgo Bioworks deploys vs peers

        Each axis is a Dealroom topic tag — picked from the cluster's most-tagged themes. Values are normalized per axis: the peer with the highest tag-coverage on that axis sits at the edge, others scale relative to them. Toggle between M&A, venture, or both.

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        02 · Portfolio market map

        Ginkgo Bioworks's portfolio, mapped.

        Each chip is one company. Pill colour shows round type — green for Seed, blue for Series A, purple for B/C+, pink for late-stage, amber for M&A. Bigger sectors keep their full list behind “+ N more”.

        Stage
        Period
        19 of 19 deals

        Market sentiment

        What the market is saying about Ginkgo Bioworks

        An AI-synthesized read of the highest-engagement posts about Ginkgo Bioworks on X over the past 7 days. We rank by likes & retweets, ignore corporate channels, and surface the themes that broke out from real people.

        Reading the room on X — pulling top posts and synthesizing themes…

        Source: X recent search ranked by engagement (likes + retweets) · Synthesis by Claude · Cached for 1 hour

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