Biologically Inspired Engineering, synbio, synthetic biology, crispr
The Emeryville, CA-based company will offer 7.4 million shares to raise $126 million at $16 to $18 per share, which translates into a fully diluted market value of $1.2 billion. Berkeley Lights is a leading digital cell biology company focused on enabling and accelerating the rapid development and commercialization of biotherapeutics and other cell-based products. … Read more
Global food security is a big concept for a small company. To achieve its lofty goals, Yield10 Bioscience, Inc. is focused on developing new technologies to achieve step-change improvements in crop yields. The company has an extensive track record of innovation based around optimizing the flow of carbon in living systems, and it is leveraging … Read more
Amyris, Inc is unique in many ways, but a synthetic biology company with a fifteen year history makes it a rare entity in a new, formative-stage industry. In 2005, Amyris partnered with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to engineer yeast to make artemisinic acid, a precursor of artemisinin, an effective anti-malarial drug. In 2008, … Read more
TWIST Bioscience Corp (symbol: TWST) is a leading and rapidly growing synthetic biology company that has developed a DNA synthesis platform to industrialize the engineering of biology. Twist is an “emerging growth company” as defined in Section 2(a) of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, as modified by the Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act … Read more