News and Press Releases — Wild Microbes
Summary
The company is building the largest catalog of diverse, industrial microbes in the sector using their high-throughput engineering technology. "This financing round will allow us to begin the development of our microbial engine, and to identify the first specific use cases for our growing strain catalog. Tim and Ben first met as a part of Nucleates Activator program and in addition to support through Nucleate, this round also included support from the Activate Fellowship, Third Derivative, Alpine Social Ventures, and a small group of Angel investors.Wild Microbes is a synthetic biology company developing a catalog of new biomanufacturing hosts. The companys best-in-class genetic toolkit and innovative approach to engineering are set to change the fermentation industry. New microbial species will power a transition to better economics and allow the industry to deliver more bio-products to consumers.