TAXA Biotechnologies

http://www.taxa.com

Y Combinator // YC S14 starting 2014-06-01

Key notes: Genetic engineering of plants for the home

Office address: Suite 250, 665 3rd Street, San Francisco, California, United States

Description: TAXA Biotechnologies enable cheaper, faster, and better genetic engineering of plants. They offer our platform both as a service to other companies and use it internally to develop our own engineered plants. We make money from platform access service fees and from royalties on the sale of the final products. Our first product is a Glowing Plant, which was the first Kickstarter for a synthetic biology application earning us over $600k in pre-orders. We are also close to shipping a Fragrant Moss.

View details on Crunchbase:

http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/glowing-plant

$ 909,000 over 2 funding rounds.

Angellist Page:

https://angel.co/taxa-bio

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Funding Rounds

Date	Name	$ Invested	Crunchbase link
2013-06-08	product_crowdfunding	$ 484,000	Detailed data
2014-07-16	seed	$ 425,000	Detailed data

Investors

Round Date	Round Name	Investor	Crunchbase Link
2014-07-16	seed	Y Combinator	Investor Profile
2014-07-16	seed	Zillionize Angel	Investor Profile