Zymergen ^{Priced, Nasdaq: ZY}

We partner with Nature to design, develop, and commercialize bio-based breakthrough products that deliver extraordinary value to customers in a broad range of industries. Our first innovations include films designed for electronics companies to use in new categories of smart devices, including rollable tablets and naturally derived UV protection. We create new products with a proprietary platform that unlocks the design and manufacturing efficiency of biological processes with technology’s ability to rapidly iterate and control diverse functions. We call our process biofacturing and it creates better products faster, cheaper and more sustainably than traditional chemistry by engineering microbes to make novel biomolecules that are the key ingredients in those products. Our goal is to launch our products in about half the time and 1/10th of the cost of what traditional chemicals and materials companies can deliver, which would allow us to address a wide array of commercial applications. Based on our experience and expectations with our first four products which are electronic films and insect repellent products, and subject to any regulatory requirements, which could lead to longer timelines and increased cost, we estimate the timelines and costs of launching our products to be roughly five years and $50 million.