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Ginkgo Bioworks
Biotech & Life Sciences · Boston, United States · Founded 2008 Unicorn
Uses the most advanced technology on the planet – biology – to grow products instead of manufacturing them
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.
Brynne StantonUnited States
Uri LasersonUnited States
Sri KosuriUnited States
Effendi LeonardUnited StatesGlobal footprint
Where Ginkgo Bioworks has talent and traffic
(22 of 578 staff)
across markets
Patent intelligence
$325M patent portfolio · 229 active families
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.
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.
19 deals across Ginkgo Bioworks's capital deployment.
Where the deals concentrate by sector, stage, and decade.
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”.
Sentiment on X
What X 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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