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Industrial Microbes

At iMicrobes, we believe there are opportunities for biology to solve our biggest problems. Our mission is to work with the world’s largest companies to use new raw materials and recycle waste for chemical production, polymers, agriculture, and space exploration.

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Y Combinator
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last updated
2026-07-15
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Why this company exists here

Y Combinator

yc-company-directory #3519

At iMicrobes, we believe there are opportunities for biology to solve our biggest problems. Our mission is to work with the world’s largest companies to use new raw materials and recycle waste for chemical production, polymers, agriculture, and space exploration.

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High Signal interpretation

Industrial Microbes is classified as Other from source descriptions and fund-directory context. Similar companies below are ranked from offline product facets and meaningful description overlap; category and source affiliation can only strengthen an existing product match. For lookup-created rows, the profile starts as pending enrichment until deeper source collection runs.

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Product facets
agriculturespace explorationbiologychemical productionpolymersnew raw materialsworld’s largest companies
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Local clusters rerank extracted product concepts and description terms. The generated graph remains the fallback for sparse descriptions: offline reciprocal product-similarity graph: extracted concepts + description terms + bounded category/affiliation boosts. Minimum fallback score: 0; max competitors: 6.

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Other · 6 peers

A deterministic local cluster built from offline product facets and meaningful description terms. Category and selected-institution affiliation provide bounded tie-breaks. Open any peer to continue exploring its cluster.

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match 41

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shared product terms: mission, believe, biology, biggest; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

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match 37

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shared extracted concept terms: agriculture, production; shared product terms: production, agriculture; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

Lygos

match 37

Founded in 2010, Lygos is providing biotechnology solutions for today’s renewable chemical challenges. They engineer microbes to convert sugars into high-value, industrial chemicals, targeting compounds where biological production is cost-advantaged over petrochemical production.

shared extracted concept terms: chemical, production; shared product terms: chemical, production; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

Duranium

match 35

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shared extracted concept terms: production; shared product terms: production, problem, waste; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

Mobius

match 32

We're creating a world where There's Wonder in Waste. We envision a future where waste streams are upcycled into chemicals and materials.

shared product terms: there, waste, chemical, material

Westwood Aerogel

match 24

Westwood Aerogel is a manufacturer of chemical raw materials.

shared product terms: chemical, raw, material