
Ginkgo Bioworks
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Our mission is to make biology easier to engineer.
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HQ: Boston, MA, United States
This list has 65 startups and was last updated on Oct 15, 2026. 6 of them are hiring right now. Largest teams: Ginkgo Bioworks, TetraScience, and Cloudant. Latest round: Flexxbotics raised $1.8M (Oct 8, 2026).

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Our mission is to make biology easier to engineer.
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HQ: Boston, MA, United States

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$187M · Equity · May 2026
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$13.2M · Equity · Apr 2026
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$11.3M · Equity · Jan 2026
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There are 65 startups on this list, last updated on Oct 15, 2026.
6 of them are hiring right now, including Ginkgo Bioworks, Kodex, and Alpha Vantage.
By team size: Ginkgo Bioworks (641 employees), TetraScience (100 employees), and Cloudant (51 employees).
Latest rounds: Flexxbotics — $1.8M Equity (Oct 2026), SkyNexus AI — $100K SAFE (Oct 2026), and Acumino — $11.7M Equity (Jun 2026).