What’s Zymergen? As they put it, “We believe in harnessing the power of biology to make transformative products that are good for business, people and the environment. By applying the latest in automation, data architecture and machine learning, we’re making better microbes for use in industrial fermentation. Bottom line, they engineer strains for partners, helping improve existing products and developing new ones, working across microbes, products, and traits.

The claim? An integrated approach that dramatically accelerates strain optimization and brings unprecedented scale, reliability and performance to an otherwise uncertain process.