Заявка TAXA Biotechnologies в YC

Summer 2014Inactive

TAXA Biotechnologies прошел Y Combinator в потоке Summer 2014 как компания из сферы Healthcare. Ниже: чем занимается компания, кто ее основал, и ее заявка в YC, реконструированная вопрос за вопросом в реальной форме YC.

Поток YC: Summer 2014
Сфера: HealthcareConsumer Health and Wellness
Размер команды: 2
Статус: Inactive
Запущено: 2014

Фаундеры

Antony EvansFounder/CEO

Чем занимается TAXA Biotechnologies

The TAXA platform has been specifically designed to enable anyone to perform metabolic engineering of plants without stepping into a lab. We provide access to protein engineering, DNA assembly, transient experiments and stable transformation as a service. The best thing is that anything "Powered by TAXA" is designed to be free from expensive regulatory approval, meaning the products are available for sale or distribution to consumers in the United States immediately after they are developed. For a detailed list of the experiments which can be run on our platform please see the Services page. Our vision is a world where bio-engineering is as easy and commonplace as mobile application development is today. Game-changing technologies, like genetic engineering, should not be the exclusive preserve of large corporations and a wealthy elite. Democratizing the tools of creation enables anyone, anywhere, to genetically engineer plants and will unleash a wave of creativity to power an environment where ultimately what we create is limited only by our imagination. The TAXA platform is our next step in the realization of that dream We are also the team behind the first synthetic biology crowdfunding project, raising $484k on Kickstarter to make real glowing plants:

Заявка TAXA Biotechnologies в YC, реконструирована

Заявка Y Combinator

TAXA Biotechnologies, батч Summer 2014. Реальные вопросы из анкеты, ответы из публичных данных.

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Company

Company name

TAXA Biotechnologies

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Cheaper, faster, better genetic engineering of plants

What is your company going to make? Please describe your product and what it does or will do.

We built the TAXA platform to let anyone perform metabolic engineering on plants without needing a lab. It offers protein engineering, DNA assembly, transient experiments, and stable transformation as services. Our platform is unique because anything created with it is designed to be free from costly regulatory approval, so products can reach customers in the US immediately after development.

Where do you live now, and where would the company be based after YC?

We live in San Francisco, CA and plan for the company to remain based here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco is where we are based because it offers access to biotech talent and a strong startup ecosystem connected to healthcare and genetic engineering.

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Это реальная заявка TAXA Biotechnologies в YC?

Нет. Y Combinator держит поданные заявки в приватности. Это реконструкция: реальные вопросы формы YC, ответы на которые основаны на публичных данных TAXA Biotechnologies (заметки о запуске, бэкграунд фаундеров, описание продукта). Это показывает, как компания вроде TAXA Biotechnologies представила бы себя YC, а не текст, который они подали.