# Zymergen

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/zymergen/  
**Website:** https://zymergen.com/  
**APIs profiled:** 0

Zymergen was a synthetic-biology and bio-manufacturing company founded in 2013 in Emeryville, California, that used machine learning and automation to engineer microbes and discover novel bio-based materials and molecules. It went public on NASDAQ in 2021 and was acquired by Ginkgo Bioworks in October 2022; the zymergen.com domain now 301-redirects to Ginkgo Bioworks. It was surfaced as a portfolio company of DCVC, Kindred Ventures, and Obvious Ventures and added to the API Evangelist network for enrichment. Enrichment found no public developer portal, API, documentation, or event surface — the company has no independent API footprint following the acquisition. This profile is retained as a portfolio/history record.

## Kin Score — 5.0 / 100 (minimal)

Scored 2026-08-21 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 5.0).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 50.0 |
| 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 |

## Access

Unknown — onboarding: unknown, pricing: unknown, trial: no (confidence: low).

## Security (1)

- **Zymergen Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · DNSSEC · DMARC

## Tags

Company, Synthetic Biology, Biotechnology, Biomanufacturing, Materials Science, Machine-Learning, Acquired

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