Tierra Biosciences is a synthetic biology company that accelerates the pace of discovery and enables the next generation of bio-based materials. Tierra’s first product, the Tierra Protein Platform, couples high-throughput protein manufacturing with the simplicity of e-commerce to make ordering custom proteins easier than ever before. By lowering the traditional protein synthesis barrier, Tierra serves scientists looking to change the world with novel proteins. Led by a team of protein experts, this fast-growing company is transforming the way people discover, screen, and develop proteins for future bio-based products. For more information, visit tierrabiosciences.com.
Location: United States, California, San Leandro
Employees: 11-50
Total raised: $11.4M
Founded date: 2015
Investors 6
| Date | Name | Website |
| - | KdT Ventur... | kdtvc.com |
| - | Fifty Year... | fiftyyears... |
| - | Humboldt | humboldtfu... |
| - | MBC BioLab... | mbcbiolabs... |
| - | Beresford ... | beresfordv... |
| - | Endless Fr... | endlessfro... |
Funding Rounds 1
| Date | Series | Amount | Investors |
| 13.03.2024 | Series A | $11.4M | - |
Mentions in press and media 13
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| 13.03.2024 | Tierra Biosciences Revolutionizes Protein Synthesis with AI Technology | Tierra Biosciences, a California-based startup, has secured an $11.4 million Series A funding round to expand its innovative platform for custom protein synthesis. Using AI-guided cell-free technology, Tierra is disrupting traditional prote... |
| 13.03.2024 | Tierra Biosciences Raises $11.4M in Series A Funding | Tierra Biosciences, a San Leandro, CA-based company providing a predictive AI-guided cell-free technology platform, raised $11.4M in Series A funding. The round was led by Material Impact with participation from new and existing investors i... |
| 12.03.2024 | Tierra Biosciences raises $11.4m series A to expand designer protein-to-order platform | Tierra Biosciences—a California-based startup developing AI-guided cell-free technology to enable high-throughput custom protein synthesis—has closed an $11.4m Series A round led by Material Impact. The round, which adds to the firm’s $6 mi... |
| 12.03.2024 | Tierra Biosciences nabs $11M to create new AI-guided proteins | Scientific breakthroughs have accelerated the pace at which new pharmaceuticals are being developed. Tierra Biosciences thinks that pace can go faster. The San Leandro-based company has developed a platform for AI-guided, custom protein syn... |
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| 02.02.2022 | BREAKING: Tierra Biosciences launches “proteins-on-demand” platform to speed up synbio engineering | Synthetic biology company Tierra Biosciences has officially launched its “proteins-on-demand” e-commerce portal where synbio scientists and researchers get custom proteins synthesized, validated, and shipped to them via a single interface. ... |
| 02.02.2022 | Designer proteins… made to order? Tierra Biosciences unlocks potential of cell-free protein synthesis with online ordering platform | The San Leandro-based startup – which was founded in 2015 by academics* at Caltech and Harvard in 2015, when it was known as Synvitrobio – is one of a new wave of synthetic biology companies expressing proteins using some of the bio-machine... |
| 26.08.2021 | Alternative protein brand raises $2.6 million | VANCOUVER — TMRW Foods, a Canadian producer of plant-based proteins, raised $2.6 million in seed funding. Investors for the round included Greg Blake, co-founder of Daiya Foods; Eric Patel, director at Fresh Prep; Richard Cooperstein, chief... |
| 23.08.2021 | Alternative Protein Company INSEACT Raises $1.3 Mn Funding | August 23, 2021 3 min read Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Singapore-based alternative protein company INSEACT, on Monday, announced that it has raised $1.3 million in an oversubscribed Seed funding round. Inv... |
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