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Ligo Biosciences

Y Combinator Summer 2024 · Microbiology & synthetic biology · North America

What it sells

Enzyme design models.

Business model breakdown

Workflow: what inputs become what output?

Train models on protein data to design enzymes, giving humans and AI agents a computational interface to chemistry and biology.

Funding history and coverage

Round dateStageAmountInvestorsSource
—Y Combinator Summer 2024—Y Combinatorycombinator.com

Profiles summarize public reporting and company websites. Business-model notes are MaxBC's reading of that material, not confirmed facts; unknowns are left blank rather than guessed. Updated 2026-10-12.

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