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YC Industrial Bio Companies

42 Y Combinator industrial bio startups with verified founder contacts, batch info, and company data.

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Company	Batch	Description	Status	Location	Team	Founders	Reveal
Infera	X26	Control lab instruments with natural language.	Active	San Francisco, CA, USA	2	Troy Zhang, Chloe Sow	Reveal
Pando Bioscience	W23	Gen-AI Designed Enzymes for Pharmaceutical Innovation	Active	Boston, MA, USA	5	Will Cao	Reveal
Brown Foods	W22	Making 'REAL' Cow and Human Milk!	Active	Boston, MA, USA	5	Sohail Gupta, Avhijeet Kapoor, Bhavna Tandon	Reveal
Invert	W22	Data analytics software for biomanufacturing.	Active	San Francisco, CA, USA; Remote	25	Martin T. Permin, Holger Thorup	Reveal
Invert	W22	Data analytics software for biomanufacturing.	Active	San Francisco, CA, USA	25	Martin T. Permin, Holger Thorup	Reveal
Reshape Biotech	W21	Robots that automate the everyday tasks of microbiologists.	Active	Copenhagen, Denmark	40	Carl-Emil Grøn Fuglesang, Magnus Nyborg Madsen, Daniel Storgaard, Carl-Emil Grn	Reveal
Trestle Biotherapeutics	W21	Bioengineered kidneys for patients with kidney failure	Active	San Diego, CA, USA	2	Ben Shepherd, Alice Chen	Reveal
Trestle Biotherapeutics	W21	Bioengineered kidneys for patients with kidney failure	Active	San Diego, CA, USA	2	Ben Shepherd, Alice Chen	Reveal
Ansa Biotechnologies	W20	Next-generation DNA synthesis using enzymes	Active	San Francisco, CA, USA; Emeryville, CA, USA	72	Dan Lin-Arlow, Sebastian Palluk, Daniel Arlow	Reveal
Volumetric	W20	Volumetric builds living multicellular tissues with a focus on the…	Acquired	Houston, TX, USA	5	Jordan Miller, Bagrat Grigoryan	Reveal
Shiok Meats	W19	Shiok Meats is a cell-based clean shrimp company, the first of its…	Acquired	Singapore, Singapore	9	Ling Ka Yi, Sandhya Sriram, Ka Yi Ling	Reveal
Volta Labs, Inc.	W19	Unlocking the utility of genomics for the world.	Active	Boston, MA, USA; Cambridge, MA, USA	50	Udayan Umapathi	Reveal
Culture Biosciences	W18	We grow cells for biotech companies.	Active	San Francisco, CA, USA; South San Francisco, CA, USA	40	Will Patrick, Matt Ball	Reveal
Solugen	W17	Decarbonizing the chemicals industry.	Active	Houston, TX, USA	200	Sean Hunt, Gaurab Chakrabarti	Reveal
Lygos	W16	Lygos engineers yeast to convert sugar into high-value industrial…	Active	San Francisco, CA, USA	55	Eric Steen	Reveal
Industrial Microbes	W15	We design and build microbes to make chemicals greener at lower cost.	Active	San Francisco, CA, USA; Alameda, CA, USA	12	Derek Greenfield, Liz Clarke, Noah Helman	Reveal
ACX	S24	Next-generation biocides for sustainable agriculture at scale	Active	New York, NY, USA	4	Emmanouela Petsolari, Melina Petsolari	Reveal
ACX	S24	Next-generation biocides for sustainable agriculture at scale	Active	New York City, NY, USA	4	Emmanouela Petsolari, Melina Petsolari	Reveal
AminoAnalytica	S24	The AI-Native Operating System for Protein Engineering	Active	San Francisco, CA, USA	2	Abhi Rajendran, Adam Wu	Reveal
Ligo Biosciences	S24	Enzyme design models.	Active	San Francisco, CA, USA	4	Edward Harris, Emily Egerton-Warburton, Arda Goreci	Reveal
Ligo Biosciences	S24	Enzyme design models.	Active	San Francisco, CA, USA	4	Edward Harris, Emily Egerton-Warburton, Arda Goreci	Reveal
Current Foods	S20	Impossible foods of seafood.	Acquired	San Francisco, CA, USA	18	Jacek Prus	Reveal
Future Fields	S20	We make unmakeable proteins with radical advanced biomanufacturing.	Active	Edmonton, AB, Canada	34	Matt Anderson-Baron, Jalene Anderson-Baron	Reveal
Future Fields	S20	We make unmakeable proteins with radical advanced biomanufacturing.	Active	Edmonton, AB, Canada	34	Matt Anderson-Baron, Jalene Anderson-Baron	Reveal
Kingdom	S20	Clinically-validated ingredients from natural microbes	Active	New York City, NY, USA	21	Kendall Dabaghi, Ravi Sheth	Reveal
Rarebird	S20	Elevating mental health to be a part of your daily coffee ritual.	Active	San Francisco, CA, USA; San Leandro, CA, USA	5	Jeffrey Dietrich	Reveal
Rarebird	S20	Elevating mental health to be a part of your daily coffee ritual.	Active	San Leandro, CA, USA	5	Jeffrey Dietrich	Reveal
Kern Systems	S19	Using DNA to store data.	Active	Boston, MA, USA	3	Henry Lee	Reveal
Shiru	S19	Shiru leverages ML to create proteins to feed the world sustainably.	Active	Emeryville, CA, USA	4	Jasmin Hume	Reveal
Shiru	S19	Shiru leverages ML to create proteins to feed the world sustainably.	Active	San Francisco, CA, USA; Emeryville, CA, USA	4	Jasmin Hume	Reveal
64x Bio	S18	Enabling next generation medicines. A comprehensive platform and…	Active	San Francisco, CA, USA	25	Lexi Rovner, David Thompson	Reveal
64x Bio	S18	Enabling next generation medicines. A comprehensive platform and…	Active	San Francisco, CA, USA	25	Lexi Rovner	Reveal
C16 Biosciences	S18	Next-gen ingredients to decarbonize consumer products, starting w/…	Active	New York City, NY, USA; New York, NY, USA	35	Shara Ticku, David Heller, Harry McNamara	Reveal
C16 Biosciences	S18	Next-gen ingredients to decarbonize consumer products, starting w/…	Active	New York, NY, USA	35	Shara Ticku, David Heller, Harry McNamara	Reveal
CB Therapeutics	S18	Fermentation-derived natural products to solve health problems	Active	San Diego, CA, USA	18	Sher Butt, Jacob Vogan	Reveal
CB Therapeutics	S18	Fermentation-derived natural products to solve health problems	Active	San Diego, CA, USA	18	Sher Butt, Jacob Vogan	Reveal
Mytos	S18	Robotic human cell manufacturing	Active	London, UK	26	Ali Afshar, Ignacio Willats	Reveal
Mytos	S18	Robotic human cell manufacturing	Active	London, England, United Kingdom	26	Ali Afshar, Ignacio Willats	Reveal
Rebellyous Foods	S18	Rebellyous Foods is a food manufacturing technology and production…	Active	Seattle, WA, USA	12	Christie Lagally	Reveal
Spero Foods	S18	dairy reinvented from plants	Inactive	Oakland, CA, USA	—	Phaedra Randolph	Reveal
Synvivia	S16	Synvivia applies chemical control over cell behavior	Active	San Francisco, CA, USA; Berkeley, CA, USA	4	Gabriel Lopez	Reveal
Ginkgo Bioworks	S14	Our mission is to make biology easier to engineer.	Public	Boston, MA, USA	641	Barry Canton, Austin Che, Jason Kelly, Tom Knight, Reshma Shetty	Reveal

Batch Distribution

XX261 WW231 WW223 WW213 WW202 WW192

Status Breakdown

Active37 Acquired3 Inactive1 Public1

Top Locations

San Francisco16 Boston5 San Diego4 New York City3 New York2 Houston2

About YC Industrial Bio Companies

Y Combinator has funded 42 industrial bio companies since its founding in 2005. These startups span from early-stage pre-launch to publicly traded companies, making YC one of the most prolific backers of industrial bio innovation globally.

37 of these companies are currently active. 3 have been acquired. 1 have gone public. VCBacked tracks verified founder contact information, team sizes, and company status for every YC industrial bio startup.

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