Lygos (Founding)
Funding Details
Awarder
YCombinator
Date Award
January 4, 2016
Vertical
Healthcare,Industrial Bio
Company Info
Founding Year
2016
Market
Healthcare
Location
San Francisco, CA, USA
Coinvestors
YCombinator
Company Description

Founded in 2010, Lygos is providing biotechnology solutions for today’s renewable chemical challenges. They engineer microbes to convert sugars into high-value, industrial chemicals, targeting compounds where biological production is cost-advantaged over petrochemical production.