# MicroByre

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/microbyre/  
**APIs profiled:** 0

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including backing from Prime Coalition's Prime Impact Fund, and went out of business; Prime Coalition lists it as "no longer active" and C&EN reported the shutdown.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.

## Kin Score — 4.6 / 100 (minimal)

Scored 2026-09-01 under rubric 0.18.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 4.6).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 46.3 |
| Contract Quality | 0.0 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 0.0 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 0.0 |
| Commercial Clarity | 0.0 |
| Access Clarity | 0.0 |

## Agent readiness — 0.0 (human-only)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | no |
| Agentic Access | no |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | no |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | no |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |
| Delegated Identity | no |
| Protected Resource Metadata | no |
| Dynamic Client Registration | no |
| Agentic Commerce | no |

## Security (1)

- **Microbyre Domain Security** — no transport/DNS hardening detected

## Tags

Company, Biotechnology, Synthetic Biology, Industrial Biotechnology, Bioengineering, Climate Tech, Chemicals

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/microbyre/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.