YC Industrial Bio startups
34 Y Combinator companies in Industrial Bio, 2 of them from the last four batches. Its share of recent batches is 0.3%, up from 0.2% in the four batches before. About 30% are AI companies by YC’s tags.
- Signal
- Open
- Since 2025
- 3 vs 3 in 2023–24
- Acquired or public
- n/a
- Listed as inactive
- n/a
Share of each batch
Industrial Bio companies as a share of each YC batch since 2015.
Newest entrants
Too few Industrial Bio companies are five or more years old to show outcomes.
- Halmos Labs F26 · Maximum information per experiment, minimum experiments per conclusion
- Infera X26 · Control lab instruments with natural language.
- TwentyTwo S25 · AI infrastructure for biosecurity
Building in Industrial Bio?
Open problems and funding on Questd for longevity.
- Y Combinator · Requests for Startups
- Andreessen Horowitz · Big Ideas 2026
- New Enterprise Associates · Investment Focus 2026
- GV · Investment Focus 2026
Industrial Bio companies, newest first
34 companies
- Halmos LabsAI
Maximum information per experiment, minimum experiments per conclusion
Fall 2026Industrial Bio3Lund, Skåne County, Sweden - InferaAI
Control lab instruments with natural language.
Spring 2026Industrial Bio2San Francisco, CA, USA - TwentyTwoAI
AI infrastructure for biosecurity
Summer 2025Industrial Bio3New York City, NY, USA - ACX
Next-generation biocides for sustainable agriculture at scale
Summer 2024Industrial Bio4New York City, NY, USA - Ligo BiosciencesAI
Enzyme design models.
Summer 2024Industrial Bio4San Francisco, CA, USA - Pando BioscienceAI
Gen-AI Designed Enzymes for Pharmaceutical Innovation
Winter 2023Industrial Bio5Boston, MA, USA - Brown Foods
Making 'REAL' Cow and Human Milk!
Winter 2022Industrial Bio5Boston, MA, USA - InvertAI
Data analytics software for biomanufacturing.
Winter 2022Industrial Bio25San Francisco, CA, USA - BLUUMBIO
We make bacteria and plants that clean up pollution.
Summer 2021Industrial Bio4San Francisco, CA, USA - Reshape Biotech
Robots that automate the everyday tasks of microbiologists.
Winter 2021Industrial Bio40Copenhagen, Denmark - Trestle Biotherapeutics
Bioengineered kidneys for patients with kidney failure
Winter 2021Industrial Bio2San Diego, CA, USA - Current Foods
Impossible foods of seafood.
Summer 2020Industrial Bio18San Francisco, CA, USAAcquired - Future Fields
We make unmakeable proteins with radical advanced biomanufacturing.
Summer 2020Industrial Bio34Edmonton, AB, Canada - Kingdom
Clinically-validated ingredients from natural microbes
Summer 2020Industrial Bio21New York City, NY, USA - Rarebird
Elevating mental health to be a part of your daily coffee ritual.
Summer 2020Industrial Bio5San Francisco, CA, USA - Ansa Biotechnologies
Next-generation DNA synthesis using enzymes
Winter 2020Industrial Bio72San Francisco, CA, USA - Volumetric
Volumetric builds living multicellular tissues with a focus on the…
Winter 2020Industrial Bio5Houston, TX, USAAcquired - Kern Systems
Using DNA to store data.
Summer 2019Industrial Bio3Boston, MA, USA - ShiruAI
Shiru leverages ML to create proteins to feed the world sustainably.
Summer 2019Industrial Bio4San Francisco, CA, USA - Shiok Meats
Shiok Meats is a cell-based clean shrimp company, the first of its…
Winter 2019Industrial Bio9Singapore, SingaporeAcquired - Volta Labs, Inc.
Unlocking the utility of genomics for the world.
Winter 2019Industrial Bio50Boston, MA, USA - 64x BioAI
Enabling next generation medicines. A comprehensive platform and…
Summer 2018Industrial Bio25San Francisco, CA, USA - C16 Biosciences
Next-gen ingredients to decarbonize consumer products, starting w/…
Summer 2018Industrial Bio35New York City, NY, USA - CB Therapeutics
Fermentation-derived natural products to solve health problems
Summer 2018Industrial Bio18San Diego, CA, USA
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