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The International Genetically Engineered Machine (iGEM) Foundation is an independent, non-profit organization dedicated to the advancement of synthetic biology, education and competition, and the development of an open community and collaboration.

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