CEO Brian Thomas and COO Jian Irish (center) at the ribbon cutting for Metagenomi's new manufacturing facility (courtesy Metagenomi)

Af­ter rop­ing in $175M+ at the be­gin­ning of the year, Metageno­mi opens the doors to a new man­u­fac­tur­ing site

The gene edit­ing biotech Metageno­mi has been on a roll for the past few years. Com­ing out of the gate in 2020, it had $65 mil­lion in cash from Bay­er’s in­vest­ment arm, and just this year it brought in a $175 mil­lion Se­ries B. Now it has tak­en the next step and opened a GMP man­u­fac­tur­ing fa­cil­i­ty on its 50,000 square-foot cam­pus in Emeryville, CA.

The fa­cil­i­ty, which will have two clean rooms and a mod­u­lar de­sign, will aim to pro­duce the biotech’s gene edit­ing tools as well as scale up the pro­duc­tion of nu­cle­as­es for ei­ther part­nered or in-house ther­a­peu­tic pro­grams.

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