MicroByre

MicroByre was a Berkeley, California synthetic biology company founded in 2017 by CEO and co-founder Sarah Richardson to "domesticate" wild-type bacteria — building an automated characterization and genetic-tool pipeline that made naturally occurring, never-before-engineered microbes tractable so they could ferment unrefined waste biomass into commodity chemicals, enzymes, food ingredients and probiotics at costs petrochemical routes could not match. It raised roughly $20.5M, including backing from Prime Coalition's Prime Impact Fund, and went out of business; Prime Coalition lists it as "no longer active" and C&EN reported the shutdown. MicroByre was a wet-lab platform company, not a software vendor: it published no developer program, no API, and no machine-readable contract, and its own domain no longer resolves to a web server.

MicroByre is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Biotechnology, Synthetic Biology, Industrial Biotechnology, and Bioengineering.

📡 Source on GitHub
4.6/100 minimal ▬ flat Agent 0/100 human only Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-09-01 · rubric v0.18.0
0 APIs
CompanyBiotechnologySynthetic BiologyIndustrial BiotechnologyBioengineeringClimate TechChemicals

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scored 2026-09-01 · rubric v0.18.0
Composite quality — 4.6/100 · minimal
Contract Quality 0.0 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 0.0 / 20
Access Clarity 0.0 / 20
Operational Transparency 0.0 / 13
Contract Governance 0.0 / 12
Discoverability 4.6 / 10
Agent readiness — 0/100 · human only
Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10
Documented Reversibility 0 / 6
MCP Server 0 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10
Idempotency 0 / 9
Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8
Request/Response Examples 0 / 7
Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 7
Typed Event Surface 0 / 6
Agent Skills 0 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3
A2A Agent Card 0 / 8
Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4
Delegated User Identity 0 / 6
Protected Resource Metadata 0 / 5
Registration Without a Human 0 / 6
Agentic Commerce Surface 0 / 5
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Security Posture 1

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Microbyre Domain Security

no transport/DNS hardening detected

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Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: microbyre
name: MicroByre
description: 'MicroByre was a Berkeley, California synthetic biology company founded in 2017 by CEO and co-founder Sarah Richardson
  to "domesticate" wild-type bacteria — building an automated characterization and genetic-tool pipeline that made naturally
  occurring, never-before-engineered microbes tractable so they could ferment unrefined waste biomass into commodity chemicals,
  enzymes, food ingredients and probiotics at costs petrochemical routes could not match. It raised roughly $20.5M, including
  backing from Prime Coalition''s Prime Impact Fund, and went out of business; Prime Coalition lists it as "no longer active"
  and C&EN reported the shutdown. MicroByre was a wet-lab platform company, not a software vendor: it published no developer
  program, no API, and no machine-readable contract, and its own domain no longer resolves to a web server.'
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/microbyre/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: harvest:secondary-market
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: harvest
deliveryModel:
  model: unknown
  open_source: false
  commercial: false
  callable_host: false
  label: Delivery model not determined — needs a product licence on record
  confidence: low
  source:
  - none
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-08-25'
modified: '2026-08-25'
tags:
- Company
- Biotechnology
- Synthetic Biology
- Industrial Biotechnology
- Bioengineering
- Climate Tech
- Chemicals
apis: []
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/microbyre
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-08-25'
  status: minimal
  artifacts_added: 2
  pass: local-v1
x-coverage:
  state: none
  reason: defunct
  detail: MicroByre is out of business — microbyre.com publishes no A record and www.microbyre.com is a dangling CNAME to
    a deleted CloudFront distribution, so nothing of the company's own web surface can be fetched at all.
  evidence:
  - url: https://microbyre.com/
    status: 0
  - url: https://www.microbyre.com/
    status: 0
  - url: https://www.primecoalition.org/investee-library/microbyre
    status: 200
  checked: '2026-08-25'

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