Ginkgo Bioworks
Formerly: Soaring Eagle Acquisition Corp · Spinning Eagle Acquisition Corp
Ginkgo Bioworks builds the tools that make biology easier to engineer for everyone. We offer autonomous laboratories that replace manual laboratory work with robotics in the lab, greatly improving the productivity of scientists. Ginkgo's in-house autonomous lab is also available as a "cloud lab" through our Datapoints and Solutions contract research services.
Profile
- Industry
- Cosmetics, Industrial chemistry, Biofoundries, Bio-Platforms & Cell Design
- Topics
- Synthetic biology platforms & biomanufacturing
- Role
- Producer — “…of biological products and processes. - The content highlights the vision of enabling scalable, automated biot…”
- Why it is bioeconomy
- Ginkgo Bioworks operates a synthetic biology platform for cell engineering and biosecurity services across various industries.
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What they offer
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Status
- 2026-04 Latest status: The company completed the divestiture of its Biosecurity business to Perimeter Systems, Inc. on April 3, 2026. ↗ ↗ ↗
Recent news 5
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- 2026-09-29 Next-Generation Enzyme Engineering at Ginkgo - Ginkgo Bioworks ginkgo.bioGinkgo Bioworks reports a decade-long flagship enzyme-engineering platform that blends AI with physics-based design and large-scale automated labs (Nebula RACs) to accelerate discovery, design, and optimization, delivering higher success rates, substantial activity improvements, …
- 2026-09-16 Ginkgo Bioworks Starts Selling the Robotic Labs Behind Its Fermentation Work - Cultivated X cultivated-x.comGinkgo Bioworks is expanding from services to selling hardware and software for autonomous labs, striking a key deal with Novo Nordisk to provide its RAC robotic labs and Catalyst software—demonstrating its move into turnkey lab infrastructure and ongoing AI-guided, automated …
- 2026-09-15 Ginkgo Bioworks To Build Autonomous Lab At Novo's New U.S. R&D Site In Waltham pulse2.comGinkgo Bioworks is expanding its role from a contract research partner to an internal infrastructure provider, delivering its autonomous RAC-based lab technology directly into Novo’s U.S. R&D operations in Waltham, MA. This deepens collaboration, enabling Novo scientists to use …
- 2026-08-05 Ginkgo Bioworks Expands Autonomous Lab Network To Caltech, MIT, Maryland And Northwestern pulse2.comGinkgo Bioworks is expanding its autonomous-lab network by partnering with Caltech, MIT, Maryland, and Northwestern to provide cloud-accessible, remotely programmable laboratories using its RAC robotic hardware and Catalyst software, backed by NSF and Massachusetts Life Sciences …
- 2026-03-13 OpenAI and Ginkgo Bioworks show how AI can accelerate scientific discovery | Scientific American scientificamerican.comGinkgo Bioworks partners with OpenAI to run an autonomous, AI-powered lab that designs and executes biology experiments at high speed, significantly reducing costs and enabling scalable, cloud-accessible experimentation.
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- SynBioBeta
- Years
- 2023–2025
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Network: owners, partners, peers
Ownership & investors 8
| investor | Motif FoodWorks, Inc |
| investor | Allonnia |
| investor | Arcaea, LLC |
| investor | Verb Biotics, LLC |
| investor | BiomEdit, LLC |
| investor | Ayana Bio, LLC |
| investor | Geno |
| investor | Synlogic, Inc |
Partners & deals 2
| counterparty | Perimeter Systems …The company completed the divestiture of its Biosecurity business to Perimeter Systems, Inc. on April 3, 2026.… |
| counterparty | Inc …The company completed the divestiture of its Biosecurity business to Perimeter Systems, Inc. on April 3, 2026.… |
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Company facts
Registry identifiers
- IRS Employer Identification No.: 87-2652913
Funding
- Latest round: Grant · 2024-04-01
- Total raised: US$ 3.3 B
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