Twist Bioscience vs Plenty

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Twist Bioscience

GrowthLife Sciences & BioTech

Synthetic Biology & DNA Synthesis

Synthetic DNA manufacturing platform on silicon chips; $376M FY2025 revenue (+20% YoY). Supplies synthetic genes to 3,000+ customers across biotech, pharma, and AgBio.

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Twist Bioscience was founded in 2013 in San Francisco by Emily Leproust, Bill Banyai, and Bill Peck, pioneering a silicon-based DNA synthesis platform that writes synthetic DNA at a fraction of the cost and error rate of conventional methods. By printing DNA on silicon wafers using a semiconductor-like process, Twist dramatically reduced the cost of synthetic genes from hundreds to single-digit dollars per gene, democratizing access to DNA writing for the life sciences.\n\nTwist serves over 3,000 customers across biopharmaceuticals, academic research, agriculture, and industrial biotechnology, offering synthetic genes, variant libraries, DNA data storage oligos, and antibody libraries for drug discovery. The company reported $376.6 million in FY2025 revenue, up 20% from $313 million in FY2024, driven by strong growth in its biopharma and drug discovery segments. Twist also operates a growing antibody drug discovery business, providing synthetic antibody libraries that power next-generation therapeutic discovery programs.\n\nTwist has a supply agreement with Ginkgo Bioworks for synthetic DNA to fuel Ginkgo's cell engineering platform, revised in 2025. The company is executing toward profitability, with improving gross margins as manufacturing scale increases. Its silicon-based DNA synthesis platform positions it as critical infrastructure for the emerging bioeconomy, synthetic biology, and DNA data storage industries.

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Plenty

LeaderAgTech & Precision Agriculture Technology

Indoor Vertical Farming

Indoor vertical farming company using AI-optimized growing systems. San Francisco, CA. Raised $940M+ including $400M from SoftBank. Partners with Walmart for US farms.

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Plenty is a San Francisco-based indoor vertical farming company that uses AI, machine learning, and robotics to grow leafy greens and other produce in controlled indoor environments. The company has raised over $940 million from investors including SoftBank Vision Fund, which invested $200 million in 2017, and has positioned itself as the technology leader in data-driven indoor agriculture.\n\nPlenty's farms use precisely controlled light, temperature, humidity, and nutrient conditions to grow crops that are free from pesticides, use 99% less land, and consume significantly less water than conventional field agriculture. The company's AI systems continuously optimize growing conditions based on sensor data, learning to improve yields and quality across crops and growing cycles.\n\nIn 2022, Plenty announced a landmark partnership with Walmart to supply leafy greens from a new large-scale facility in Compton, California. This partnership provided both a major commercial anchor and significant additional funding from Walmart, validating Plenty's technology and business model at scale. The company also operates a dedicated strawberry R&D partnership with Driscoll's, the world's largest berry company, demonstrating the platform's potential beyond leafy greens.

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