Synthetic biology startup launchpad announced by Singularity University

March 28, 2012

Singularity University (SU) is partnering with Triple Ring Technologies to launch a pilot program whose mission is to “help great synthetic biology ideas turn into startup companies.”

“Promising entrepreneurs with great ideas will be intensively mentored over a 4-month period to develop exciting products and services,” according to the SU announcement. The program will run from May to August 2012 in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Program benefits include:

  • Stipend for 4 months (May — August)
  • Lab services and consumables expenses
  • Intensive scientific and technical mentorship
  • Introduction to exponential technologies
  • Business mentorship and support for incorporation into a commercial entity
  • Access to a professional biology lab
  • Access to DIYbio and maker facilities
  • Speaker programs featuring leading thinkers
  • High-access networking in the Silicon Valley entrepreneurial community
  • Peer-to-peer support and inspiration

Triple Ring Technologies is a technology and product development company serving the medtech and life science, cleantech and industrial automation, and security and defense industries.

Interested entrepreneurs are invited to complete a short online application at singularityu.org/synbio/synbioapp/. Applications will be accepted through April 1, 2012 and accepted teams will be notified by April 15, 2012.