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Zymergen

Zymergen was a biopharmaceutical venture, based in Emeryville. Zymergen was bought by Ginkgo Bioworks.

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At Zymergen, we make improvements to microbes used in industrial fermentation. With advanced automation and computation, we build enhanced strains for real world applications.

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Last Transaction

7/25/2022

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Management Team

Title

Name

Email & Social

Chief Executive Officer

Joshua Hoffman

        

Chief Marketing Officer

Jack Gold

        

Chief Scientific Officer

Zach Serber

        

Chief Technical Officer

Aaron Kimball

        

VP - Finance

Enakshi Singh

        

VP - Human Resources

Judy Gilbert

        

VP - Human Resources

Mina Kim

        

VP - Operations

Jed Dean

        

VP - Product Management

Richard Pieters

        

Company Investors

• Baillie Gifford (Peter Singlehurst)
• Perceptive Advisors
• Baron Capital
• Hanwha Investment
• Data Collective (Matthew Ocko)
• Innovation Endeavors
• SoftBank Vision Fund (Deep Nishar)
• Threshold Ventures
• True Ventures
• Two Sigma Ventures
• Goldman Sachs
• SoftBank Group (Steven Chu)
• Obvious Ventures
• Prelude Ventures
• Tao Capital Partners
• AME Cloud Ventures (Jerry Yang)
• ICONIQ Capital
• HVF
• Private Investors (Jenny Rooke)

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