Austin Che — Founder, Ginkgo Bioworks

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Austin Che is the Founder of Ginkgo Bioworks. He is also a mentor at Creative Destruction Lab.

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a16z and Menlo rarely co-lead seed rounds. Their $13.5M bet on Phylo explains why.

Phylo raised a $13.5M seed round co-led by Andreessen Horowitz and Menlo Ventures through the Anthropic-linked Anthology fund. The company is building an Integrated Biology Environment — an AI-native workspace where LLM agents plan experiments, search literature, generate code, and dispatch jobs to

6/23/2026, 9:25 PM PDTBy Zero G TalentPhyloAI biologyseed funding

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