Ginkgo Bioworks is a leading synthetic biology company that specializes in engineering biology to create products and solutions for a variety of industries. We use our proprietary technology platform to design and build custom organisms that can produce a wide range of materials, from fragrances and flavors to proteins
Ginkgo Bioworks Holdings, Inc. is an American biotech company founded in 2008 by five scientists from MIT. The company specializes in using genetic engineering to produce bacteria with industrial applications for other biotech companies, saving other companies the cost of reproducing the initial stages of design in synthetic biology. The self-proclaimed "Organism Company" was one of the world's largest privately held biotech companies, valued at $4.2 billion in 2019. It raised $290 million in September and $350 million in October of that year. Ginkgo Bioworks went public on the New York Stock Exchange via a SPAC merger on September 17, 2021.