Biotech / PharmaGreater Boston

Ginkgo Bioworks

Biotech / Pharma · Boston, MA

Cell programming and synthetic biology platform. Boston MA. General Atlantic + Cascade. IPO 2021. NYSE: DNA. MIT spinout.

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About Greater Boston

Boston's venture ecosystem runs on its universities — MIT and Harvard across the Charles River from each other, Boston University down the bank in the Fenway/Kenmore area, all fueling a dense pipeline of biotech and deep tech spinouts. Kendall Square functions as a walkable biotech campus in its own right, but it's really one node in a wider river-and-campus geography — the region's life sciences density comes from several schools feeding the same square mile, not just one.

Region Stats

Total firms 300

VC / investors 36

Companies 246

Universities 18

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Life Sciences

Deep Tech

Venture Capital