Ginkgo Bioworks

Ginkgo Bioworks is a biotechnology platform company focused on building and enabling autonomous labs that accelerate R&D across the life sciences. With a mission rooted in the belief that biology can be programmed like software, Ginkgo serves over 130 customers ranging from pharmaceutical and materials science organizations to a broad spectrum of biotech innovators seeking to move faster from hypothesis to insight.

At the core of Ginkgo's vision is the recognition that manual benchwork remains the primary bottleneck slowing progress in biotechnology — from the development of novel materials to the creation of lifesaving medicines. Autonomous labs replace traditional bench-based workflows by enabling scientists to direct experimental work through robotic systems simply by requesting it in human language, freeing researchers to focus on creativity, judgment, and scientific insight rather than repetitive manual tasks.

Autonomous Lab Solutions

• Build Your Own Autonomous Lab: Ginkgo offers the infrastructure and expertise to help organizations construct their own autonomous laboratory environments. Having pioneered this approach at their Boston headquarters, Ginkgo now enables other organizations to replicate and deploy similar capabilities within their own facilities.
• Cloud Lab Access (Try Before You Buy): Organizations can run experiments virtually on Ginkgo's own autonomous lab in Boston without committing to building their own infrastructure, providing a low-barrier entry point for teams exploring automation.

Core Service Offerings

• Ginkgo Solutions: A service team that works closely with customers on open-ended or defined R&D projects, helping to understand project goals and design experiments that directly address specific scientific challenges.
• Ginkgo Datapoints: A complementary offering focused on generating targeted experimental data, working alongside customers to structure and execute data-generating workflows aligned with their research objectives.
• Catalyst Agent: Ginkgo's AI-powered tool described as the most important scientific instrument since the pipette — an autonomous system that understands human language, lifts the burden of bench operations, and empowers scientists to focus on the questions only they can answer.

Platform Capabilities and Key Differentiators

• Autonomous lab systems that replace manual benchwork with robotic, software-driven experimental execution.
• A human-language interface that allows scientists to order and direct experimental work without specialized programming knowledge.
• Flexible deployment options including cloud-based lab access and on-premises autonomous lab builds.
• Trusted by over 130 customers across the biotechnology and life sciences sectors.
• Headquartered in Boston, with a fully operational autonomous lab serving as both a proof of concept and a customer-accessible cloud resource.

Ginkgo Bioworks positions itself as a foundational platform for the future of biological research — one where scientists are empowered by autonomous systems to pursue discovery at a pace and scale previously unattainable through traditional laboratory methods.