ZBiotics (Founding)
Funding Details
Awarder
YCombinator
Date Award
November 17, 2017
Vertical
Healthcare,Consumer Health and Wellness
Company Info
Founding Year
2017
Market
Healthcare
Location
San Francisco, CA, USA
Coinvestors
YCombinator
Company Description

ZBiotics is a synthetic biology company founded in 2016 and headquartered in San Francisco, California. The company bioengineers probiotic bacteria for nutraceutical and other applications. They launched the world's first genetically engineered probiotic in 2019 – a probiotic that breaks down a toxic byproduct of alcohol. They are currently developing a pipeline of additional engineered probiotics for other consumer health applications.