Diligence memo · auto-generated · as of July 2, 2026
Zymergen Inc.
Zymergen Inc. looks fair against its niche peers and is dormant on financing cadence.
Businessfiled
Zymergen Inc. operates in Other Technology, based in EMERYVILLE.
No verified homepage on file yet — operating evidence is limited to the public record.
Capital & rounds (filed)filed
Zymergen Inc. has raised $580M in disclosed capital across 3 recorded rounds, aggregated from public filings. Its latest round is modeled as Growth/Late (a round over $400M).
Largest single filing: $406M on 2018-11-30.
Most recent recorded round closed around 2018-11-30.
Valuation (modeled)modeled
Provath models Zymergen Inc. at approximately $13.2B (range $3.1B–$23.8B). This is an algorithmic estimate from round sizes and same-niche peers — not a quoted or reported figure.
Read: Fair. Modeled value is 0.81× the median modeled value of Growth/Late Other Technology companies in 2016–2018 (13 peers) — value vs value, same stage and era. Within the normal band (81% of peer median) for its niche.
Financing rhythm & timingmixed
Historic cadence: a new round about every 21 months.
Last raise 7.6 yr ago; this sector typically re-raises about every 13 months.
Silent for over 3× the sector's normal cadence.
The last round stepped up 3.1× from the prior — scaling.
Comparablesmixed
Capital scale ranks ahead of 100% of Other Technology peers (21302 compared).
Modeled value ranks above 100% of those peers.
Closest niche peers: Severin Topco, LLC, Decade Holding Company, Inc., IRI Parent, L.P., Spotify Technology S.A., TON Issuer Inc.
Peoplefiled
17 named people on file across officers, directors and signatories.
Risks & flagsmixed
Financing has been silent well beyond sector cadence — possibly defunct, acquired, or paused.
No clearly named CEO/founder/principal in the surfaced records — key-person evidence is thin.