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October 10, 2020
With $300 Million in New Funding, Zymergen Aims to Sustainably Transform the $3 Trillion Chemical and Materials Industry
Forbes
“By making better, greener alternatives to petrochemistry, Zymergen sees a huge economic and environmental opportunity”
September 9, 2020
Zymergen Raised $300 Million Because Synthetic Biology Is So Hot Right Now
TechCrunch
“The investment total, announced yesterday, includes Series D funding led by Baillie Gifford, and joined by Baron Capital Group and one of the world’s largest sovereign wealth funds, as well as additional growth financing from Perceptive Advisors”
September 8, 2020
Synthetic Biology Startup Raises $300 Million to Build a Better Microbe
Bloomberg
“Synthetic biology startup Zymergen Inc. has raised $300 million in a new funding round—a signal of investors’ confidence that biological science can be harnessed in novel ways to manufacture products”
August 20, 2020
Can Technology Make More Natural Pesticides? Zymergen-FMC Partnership Offers a Peek Into the Future of Crop Protection
Forbes
“What we’re doing with Zymergen gives us a whole other world to explore“
August 6, 2020
A Unicorn Rivalry Shaping the Future
of the Synbio Industry
Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News
“Zymergen has announced three products so far that are all reported to be completely novel, never-used-before molecules”
July 6, 2020
Is Clarity Coming for Biobased Chemicals?
Chemical & Engineering News
“We can create a novel molecule from a microbe and assess its performance in three months“
June 5, 2020
If Software Is Eating The World, Biology Is Going to Rebuild It: Zymergen CEO Josh Hoffman on the Coming Bioeconomy
Forbes
“Biology lets you solve problems we couldn’t even imagine solving with conventional chemistry. It’s the most powerful manufacturing platform on the planet.”
April 12, 2020
Inspired By Nature, Zymergen Brews
High-Performance Bio-Electronics
Forbes
“Unlike traditional computer chips that use silicon and petroleum-based products, Hyaline is bio-manufactured using fermentation”
April 6, 2020
Super Clear, Super Thin, Super Durable:
Zymergen Bends It Like Beckham, Electronics-Wise
BioFuels Digest
“Move over, Impossible Whopper. Zymergen has made an impossible material… ”
Biological Manufacturing Is Ready to Transform How Industry Makes Everything from Airplanes to Air Jordans
Forbes
“Zymergen has ‘cracked the code’ in combining the best research practices with state-of-the-art automation and machine learning”
March 19, 2020
Zymergen Announces Acquisition of enEvolv
BusinessWire
“Speeds our delivery of high performance and sustainable products to customers and further cements our leadership position in the bio-manufacturing space”
Jay Flatley, Chairman of the Board for Illumina, and Sandra E. Peterson, Former Group Worldwide Chairman for Johnson & Johnson, Appointed to Zymergen’s Board of Directors
Zymergen
“Adding two board members of Jay’s and Sandi’s caliber is a privilege and validation of our vision and approach”
Sumitomo Chemical and Zymergen Announce Partnership to Develop Renewable Specialty Materials
BusinessWire
“An opportunity to drive real innovation in the consumer electronics space”
April 4, 2019
The Engineering of Living Organisms Could Soon Start Changing Everything
The Economist
“Synthetic biology has only just begun”
March 8, 2019
The AgTech Industry May Be Growing Up, AgFunder Reports
Forbes
“Zymergen among high investment earners”
February 14, 2019
Facial Recognition, Robotic Process Automation Companies Among Most-Funded AI Startups
The Wall Street Journal
“Zymergen one of the most promising AI startups”
January 14, 2019
This Year We Will Start Discovering More New Biological Molecules
Wired
“We’re leaving behind hydrocarbons and entering the biological age”
December 20, 2018
Your Next Smartphone Might Be Built with Living Cells
Fast Company
“The possibility of a radical transformation in human welfare”
December 13, 2018
Zymergen Announces Series C Funding
BusinessWire
“Enabling real-world product outcomes for Fortune 1000 customers”
December 5, 2018
The Promise of Molecular Technology
Zymergen Whitepaper
“Cheaper, better, and faster”
November 29, 2017
Technology Firm Zymergen Developing New Materials Using Microbes
Plastics News
“It’s not about replacing commodity plastics or metals”
July 5, 2017
A New Breed of Scientist, with Brains of Silicon
Science Mag
“This isn’t a replica of how I would do pipetting with my hand…it’s an entirely different way of doing it”
June 14, 2017
World Economic Forum Recognizes Zymergen as a Technology Pioneer
Zymergen
“The world’s biggest challenges are poised to find their solutions in biology”
April 12, 2017
How One Tech Start-Up Ditched Its Brogrammers
Vanity Fair
“Eliminating whiteboard interviews and amplifying culture”
October 11, 2016
Zymergen Raises $130 Million in New Round of Financing
The New York Times
“Zymergen’s approach amplifies the work of industrial scientists and frees them to work outside traditional approaches”
October 11, 2016
SoftBank Makes $130m US Biotech Bet
Financial Times
“Investors are noticing the power of bio-manufacturing”
October 11, 2016
Why SoftBank Just Led A $130 Million Mega Round Into Zymergen’s Microbe-Creating Robots
Forbes
“Biology is the key to making better products: investors are lining up”
June 16, 2015
This Startup Wants to Farm Microbes to Create Household Products
Fortune
“Zymergen reprograms the genetic DNA of these microbes in large quantities to use them as microscopic ‘bio factories’ that churn out valuable raw materials”
June 16, 2015
Robots And Microbes: Zymergen Raises $44 Million From Big VCs
Forbes
“If a custom-designed microbe saved a large industrial company or similar client millions off its manufacturing process in chemicals, agriculture or food, Zymergen would get a cut”