Startups
Startups
The iGEM competition is unlike any other experience available to undergraduates. Teams work extremely hard over the duration of the competition to achieve things that are great, not only for undergraduates, but for research in general. There have been many examples of team projects creating advancements in their fields. iGEM teams also have an opportunity to take their ideas and develop them outside of the academic space. More and more, we see that teams go on to start companies based on their ideas, or start companies with their teammates. Below are some of the startups founded by iGEMers. Are you an iGEMer that has started a company? Get in touch with us so we can add you to the list and get you involved in After iGEM.
Ambercycle
Team: UC Davis Entrepreneurship 2013
Asimov
Team: Washington 2008
Amplino
Team: Amplino Entrepreneurship 2012 (Erasmus University, Rotterdam)
Benchling
Team: MIT-Entrepreneurship 2012
Bento Lab
(Formerly Darwin Toolbox)Team: University College London Entrepreneurship 2013
BioBots
Team: Penn 2013
BioBright
Team: Imerial College London 2009
Bluepha
iGEMers and iGEM teams involved:
- LI Teng, team leader of Tsinghua 2010
- YIN Jin, instructor of Tsinghua 2010
- ZHANG Haoqian, team leader of Peking 2010
- WANG Xuan, team leader of BNU-China 2014
- JIANG Hao, team leader of USTC 2009
- ZHANG Yihao, team leader of Peking 2015
- LIU Yang, team leader of OUC-China 2012
- GAO Rencheng, team leader of Peking 2009
Colorifix
Team: Cambridge 2009
News: Colorifix and Stella McCartney partner on the Victoria & Albert Museum’s ‘Fashioned from Nature’ exhibition in London
CustoMem
Team: Imperial 2014
Eligo Bioscience
Team: Liliane Bettencourt 2010
Experiment.com (formerly Microryza)
Teams: Washington 2010 and Washington 2011
FGen
Team: ETH Zurich 2008
FredSense
Teams: Calgary 2012 and and Calgary Entrepreneurship 2013
Gene Adviser
Team: Edinburgh 2006, Jelena Aleksic
Ginkgo Bioworks
Team: MIT 2004 (first year of the competition)
Team: MIT 2006
Heroes of X
Team: Paris Bettencourt 2015
Hyasynth Bio
Members of Hyasynth were on the iGEM 2012 Queens Canada team
LabGenius
Team: Imperial College London 2011
Labgenius on SynBioBeta
Labster
Team: DTU Denmark 2009
LabSpace
Team: iGEM BGU 2015
La Paillasse
Team: Paris 2007
Team: Evry 2012
Morph Bioinformatics
Team: University College London entrepreneurship 2012
Opentrons
Team: Genspace 2014
PILI
Team: Paris 2007
Team: Evry 2012
PVP Biologics
Team: Washington 2011
News Link: pvpbio.com/2016/12/20
$35 M USD fundraising round press release with Takeda Pharmaceuticals
Sea6 Energy
Team: IIT Madras 2009
SynBioBeta
Team: Brown 2006
Synbiota
(Genomikon, a former iGEM team company from team Alberta 2010, merged with Synbiota)
Unibiome
Team: Paris Bettencourt 2015
Upcycled Aromatics
Team: Alberta Entrepreneurship 2012
XENO CI
Team: Czech Republic 2015