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Zymergen researches, develops and manufactures microbes. It develops molecules for biomedical coatings and adhesives that can be used as surgical glues by first responders, such as firemen, paramedics, flight crews and others either inside the body or on the skin to close a wound or to protect against infection. The Company uses a technology platform to optimize strains in that improves economics, improves the existing production strains within existing manufacturing processes and improves the correlation between the lab and commercial manufacturing.
... Show more| Type | Private | |
| Founded | 2013 | |
| HQ | Emeryville, US | Map |
| Website | zymergen.com | |
| Employee Ratings | More |
Latest Updates
| Employees (est.) (Feb 2019) | 613 | (+6%) |
| Job Openings | 113 |
Key People/Management at Zymergen
Joshua Hoffman
CEO
Zach Serber
Chief Science Officer and VP of Development
Jed Dean
VP of Operations and Engineering
Aaron Kimball
CTO
Tom Stephenson
Chief Commercial Officer
Judy Gilbert
Chief People Officer
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Zymergen Office Locations
Zymergen has offices in Emeryville and Seattle
Emeryville, US (HQ)
5980 Horton St, Suite105
Seattle, US
2200 Alaskan Way
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Zymergen Financials and Metrics
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Founding Date | 2013 |
Zymergen total Funding | $574.1 m |
Zymergen latest funding size | $400 m |
Time since last funding | 2 months ago |
Zymergen investors | True Ventures, LLC, Data Collective, SoftBank Capital, AME Cloud Ventures, Innovation Endeavors, Draper Fisher Jurvetson (DFJ), Prelude Ventures, Two Sigma Ventures, Obvious Ventures, Two Sigma Investments, Hanwha Asset Management, SoftBank Vision Fund, Goldman Sachs, Iconiq Capital, Tao Capital Partners |
Zymergen's latest funding round in December 2018 was reported to be $400 m. In total, Zymergen has raised $574.1 m
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Zymergen Online and Social Media Presence
2.13k Twitter followers
Zymergen has 2.13k Twitter Followers. The number of followers has increased 5% month over month and increased 17.9% quarter over quarter
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Zymergen News and Updates
December 13, 2018
SoftBank Plows $400 Million Into Synthetic Bio Startup Zymergen
SoftBank Plows $400 Million Into Synthetic Bio Startup Zymergen
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Zymergen Blogs
January 04, 2019
Code Reviews at Zymergen
How to be the best dang code reviewers and reviewees possibleImage courtesy of Highlights for Children and used with permissionAt Zymergen, we take our dedication to code quality seriously, so it should be no surprise that code reviews are an important part of our process — every line of code we wri…
December 12, 2018
AI in the Enterprise: Challenges and Opportunities (Part II: Challenges)
At Zymergen, we apply AI or machine learning techniques to many aspects of our high-throughput microbial genome assembly and testing systems and practices. Aaron Kimball, our CTO, offers his thoughts on what lessons we’ve learned as a result of this AI journey, and how these can be generalized to a …
December 06, 2018
AI in the Enterprise: Challenges and Opportunities (Part I: Opportunities)
At Zymergen, we apply AI or machine learning techniques to many aspects of our high-throughput microbial genome assembly and testing systems and practices. Aaron Kimball, our CTO, offers his thoughts on what lessons we’ve learned as a result of this AI journey, and how these can be generalized to a …
August 28, 2018
The Power of Prioritization
How Zymergen’s Technology team uses quarterly planning and storytelling to keep everyone focused in a target-rich environmentThe Zymergen platform is an “engine” combining molecular biology, genetics, automation, and data science to reliably improve organisms for industrial applications. Building an…
July 24, 2018
Tips for Developing User-Facing Tools in Jupyter Notebooks
At Zymergen, we use Jupyter notebooks to quickly create user interfaces for rapidly developed tools. In this post, we share code samples for developing IPython custom extensions, ipywidgets, and pandas dataframes displays to create user interfaces for Jupyter notebooks.Solutions Engineers at Zymerge…
Zymergen Company Life and Culture
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Zymergen Frequently Asked Questions
When was Zymergen founded?
Zymergen was founded in 2013.
Who are Zymergen key executives?
Zymergen's key executives are Joshua Hoffman, Zach Serber and Jed Dean.
How many employees does Zymergen have?
Zymergen has 613 employees.
Who are Zymergen competitors?
Competitors of Zymergen include Centogene, Freenome and BeyondCore.
Where is Zymergen headquarters?
Zymergen headquarters is located at 5980 Horton St, Suite105, Emeryville.
Where are Zymergen offices?
Zymergen has offices in Emeryville and Seattle.
How many offices does Zymergen have?
Zymergen has 2 offices.