Zymergen, Inc. engages in the design, development, and commercialization of bio-based products. The company is headquartered in Emeryville, California and currently employs 507 full-time employees. The company went IPO on 2021-04-22. Its platform consists of three key capabilities: its collection of accessible biomolecules; its software and data science technology, and its data-driven microbe optimization processes. Its businesses include advanced materials, which seeks to employ bio-advantaged molecules or microbes to develop and deliver products and is focused on four markets: agriculture, water repellency, advanced polymers, and healthcare; drug discovery business leverages its differentiated access to natural products as a source of diverse chemical matter provided by its unified metagenomics database, and automation business, which offers automation technology to organizations involved in lab operations. Its software and data science platform informs, guides, and records its experiments forming the infrastructure for the learning cycle.