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Ginkgo Bioworks

Founders Austin Che Barry Canton Jason Kelly Reshma Shetty Tom Knight

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Total investments 7
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$61M
Portfolio companies 6
Rounds per year 0.50
Lead investments 1
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.14
Exits 1
Key employees Soon

Areas of investment

  • Biotechnology
  • Health Care
  • Renewable Energy
  • Agriculture
  • Environmental Consulting
Summary

In 2009 was created Ginkgo Bioworks, which is appeared as Corporate Investor. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States. The leading representative office of defined Corporate Investor is situated in the Boston.

Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Chemical Engineering, Health Care. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Synlogic For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund.

The real fund results show that this Corporate Investor is 5 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. The fund is generally included in less than 2 deals every year. The high activity for fund was in 2018. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. Comparing to the other companies, this Ginkgo Bioworks performs on 4 percentage points less the average number of lead investments. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 50 - 100 millions dollars. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2015.

This organization was formed by Austin Che, Barry Canton, Jason Kelly, Reshma Shetty, Tom Knight.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 2-3 participants. Despite the Ginkgo Bioworks, startups are often financed by OrbiMed, Mohr Davidow Ventures, DFJ. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Viking Global Investors, Bayer, Casdin Capital. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Viking Global Investors, Bayer.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Phytolon

Biotechnology
Food and Beverage
Organic
$14M06 Jul 2022 Israel, North District, Israel

Cambium Biomaterials

Energy
Fuel
Renewable Energy
$8M14 Sep 2021 Berkeley, California, United States

Biotechnology
Environmental Engineering
Waste Management
$40M22 Oct 2020 Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Joyn Bio

Agriculture
Biotechnology
Environmental Consulting
Health Care
$100M20 Mar 2018 Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Joyn Bio

Agriculture
Biotechnology
Environmental Consulting
Health Care
$100M14 Sep 2017 Boston, Massachusetts, United States

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Total investments 7
Average round size 61M
Rounds per year 0.50
Peak activity year 2018
Lead investments 1
Follow on index 0.14
Exits 1
Group Appearance index 0.86

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Phytolon

Biotechnology
Food and Beverage
Organic
$14M06 Jul 2022 Israel, North District, Israel

Cambium Biomaterials

Energy
Fuel
Renewable Energy
$8M14 Sep 2021 Berkeley, California, United States

Biotechnology
Environmental Engineering
Waste Management
$40M22 Oct 2020 Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Joyn Bio

Agriculture
Biotechnology
Environmental Consulting
Health Care
$100M20 Mar 2018 Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Joyn Bio

Agriculture
Biotechnology
Environmental Consulting
Health Care
$100M14 Sep 2017 Boston, Massachusetts, United States
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