6 March 20252 March 2025 Arsenale Bioyards Raises $10M to Cut Biomanufacturing Costs by 90% with First-of-its-Kind end-to-end Platform Arsenale’s proprietary and first-of-its-kind end-to-end platform aims at drastically reducing costs and time - by up to 90% - and accelerating the adoption of sustainable bio-based alternatives
24 August 202216 August 2022 Ginkgo to Acquire Zymergen Acquisition is expected to accelerate the development of Ginkgo's innovative horizontal synthetic biology platform
24 June 202122 June 2021 Rising Commercialisation of Specialty High-Temperature Bio-based Polymers Zymergen launched in December last year its Hyaline family of polyimide films and the fermentation-based version is expected to roll out next year for electronics application
16 June 202116 June 2021 Wall Street wins signal the start of a synthetic biology revolution Last month, Ginkgo Bioworks landed a blank-check deal that valued the company at $15 billion, more than triple what it was worth last year
7 May 202118 June 2021 Zymergen Announces Launch of Initial Public Offering Zymergen has applied to list its common stock on the Nasdaq Global Select Market under the symbol "ZY"
15 April 20208 April 2020 Super clear, super thin, super durable: Zymergen bends it like Beckham, electronics-wise New great company's product is incredibly more thin, coupled with opacity and cost parity
13 December 201910 December 2019 The Coming of Age of European Synthetic Biology Within a few years, there has been a change from purely healthcare-focused applications to solving problems in industry and consumer products
23 October 201918 October 2019 About those biobased amines we might one day dream up at Ptixar Amination This review presenting both fundamental and applied research on the synthesis of biobased primary and secondary amines with current available biobased resources
6 May 201930 April 2019 Sumitomo Chemical and Zymergen partner on development renewable specialty materials Companies aim to discover novel and improved molecules to bring to market competitive, high-performance, specialty materials
29 April 201928 April 2019 Sumitomo Chemical and Zymergen Announce Partnership to Develop Renewable Specialty Materials This collaboration between the two companies will enable the development of new materials to meet consumer trends in high-tech industries
30 October 201724 October 2017 Ginkgo BioWorks, Impossible Foods, Calysta, Bolt Threads, Zymergen take top slots in The 40 Hottest Emerging Companies in the Advanced Bioeconomy 2016-17 It is the first time for Ginkgo at the top of the list, and the first time each of the others reached the top five
25 January 201723 January 2017 Bioplastics: disruptive shift to come Biobased materials show a stable growth world-wide, according to nova-Institute and European Bioplastics
24 January 201720 January 2017 VCs Invest $5.8 Billion in Bio-based Chemicals, as Focus Shifts to Disruptive Synthetic Biology This year, synthetic biology startups have raised 53% of all VC funding in bio-based materials and chemicals, says Lux Research
14 November 20169 November 2016 Reverdia, Gingko BioWorks, Rennovia, Leaf Resources, Mango Materials take top slots in The 40 Hottest Emerging Companies in the Advanced Bioeconomy 2016-17 The rankings recognize biotechnology innovation and achievement in fuels, biobased chemicals, nutrition, health, genetics and materials
18 October 201617 October 2016 Ginkgo BioWorks, Reverdia and Calysta lead in early voting for the Hot 40 The Digest released the early-voting totals from Subscriber Voting — which do not yet include Social Votes or Invited International Selector votes
11 October 201610 October 2016 The Rise of Organic Manufacturing: Ginkgo, Amyris, ’s circle of innovation is a trend to watch Out with the old inorganic feedstocks like coal, oil and gas – in with the new feedstocks like woods, grasses, fibers and sugars
8 December 20157 December 2015 Commercializing Synthetic Biology Innovation to Tackle Climate Change and Feed a Growing Population
