Lygos engineers microbes to convert sugars into high-value, industrial chemicals.
Location: United States, California, Berkeley
Employees: 11-50
Total raised: $50.5M
Founded date: 2011
Investors 7
Funding Rounds 6
| Date | Series | Amount | Investors |
| 29.09.2019 | Series B | $5M | - |
| 03.06.2019 | Grant | $2M | - |
| 23.01.2019 | Series B | $5M | LG Technol... |
| 19.07.2018 | Series B | $15.5M | - |
| 14.12.2016 | Series A | $13M | OS Fund |
| 18.05.2016 | Grant | $10M | - |
Mentions in press and media 20
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| 30.03.2023 | Funding to Biomaterials startups bucks global decline increasing 14% to $2.2bn as industry looks for non-synthetic alternatives | Data Snapshot is a regular AFN feature analyzing agrifoodtech market investment data provided by our parent company, AgFunder. Click here for more research from AgFunder and sign up to our newsletters to receive alerts about new research re... |
| 25.01.2023 | With $3bn in deals, top 10 climate x agrifoodtech startups prove themselves a vital part of climate tech ecosystem | Climate tech investment landed in the spotlight in 2022. While other sectors (e.g., eGrocery, food delivery) saw valuations nosedive and VC dollars dwindle, climate tech investment “hovered at historic highs,” according to PWC’s State of Cl... |
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| 21.01.2021 | Forsaking funding at a $1 billion valuation, Solugen preps a new green chemical product and a big 2021 | Late last year, Solugen, a startup using synthetic biology to take hydrocarbons out of the chemicals industry, decided against pursuing a new round of funding that would have valued the company at over $1 billion, TechCrunch has learned. In... |
| 03.06.2019 | Lygos Awarded $2 Million Grant to Develop Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Technologies to Revive U.S. Biomanufacturing | Partnership with U.S. Department of Energy and Agile BioFoundry to accelerate microbial engineering for cost-competitive production of new biochemicals June 03, 2019 08:00 AM Eastern Daylight Time BERKELEY, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Lygos, I... |
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| 23.01.2019 | Lygos Snares $5M in Series B | BERKELEY, CA, Biotechnology-based producer of specialty chemicals announced that LG Technology Ventures has made a $5 million investment. >> Click here for more funding data on Lygos >> To export Lygos funding data to PDF an... |
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