COMPANY PROFILE · UPDATED 18 NOV 2025

Twist Bioscience

Twist Bioscience is a public company based in South San Francisco that manufactures synthetic DNA and DNA products for customers in a wide range of industries. Twist was founded in 2013 by Emily Leproust, Bill Banyai, and Bill Peck.

San Francisco, CA · Portland, OR · South San Francisco, CA

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Founded: 2013
Headcount: 775
Open roles: 48
Last raised: Post Ipo Equity

LOCATIONS

Where they work

Twist Bioscience offices

Portland, OR
San Francisco, CA
South San Francisco, CA

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FUNDING

Capital raised

Total raised

$553,110,720

Investors

Funding rounds

Post Ipo Equity
Capital World Investors
$250MFeb 8, 2022
Post Ipo Equity
$50MJan 26, 2020
Series Unknown
E Squared Capital Management
$50MApr 1, 2018
IPO
UndisclosedJan 1, 2018
Series Unknown
Biomatics Capital Partners, Reinet Investments S.C.A., Fidelity National Information Services, NFT Investment, Kangmei Pharmaceutical Co., 3W Partners, Ditch Plains Capital Management, Bay City Capital
$27MJun 13, 2017
Series Unknown
Asset Management Ventures, Dentsu Ventures
$33MMar 26, 2017
Series D
Merieux Equity Partners, Cormorant Asset Management, Fidelity Investments, Foresite Capital, Arch Venture Partners, WuXi Healthcare Ventures, Paladin Capital Group, Boris Nikolic, ARCH Overage Fund, +ND Capital, Asset Management Ventures, Illumina Ventures, GoldenArc Capital
$61MJan 18, 2016
Series C
Illumina, Fidelity Investments, Foresite Capital, Arch Venture Partners, Paladin Capital Group, Joby Pritzker, +ND Capital, Asset Management Ventures, Tao Venture Partners
$37MJun 8, 2015
Debt Financing
First Citizens Bank
$10MSep 29, 2014
Series B
Tao Venture Partners, Arch Venture Partners, Paladin Capital Group, Asset Management Ventures, +ND Capital
$26MMay 26, 2014
Series A
Arch Venture Partners, Asset Management Ventures, Paladin Capital Group
$9.1MFeb 9, 2014

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TECH STACK

How Twist Bioscience builds

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CRM & Sales Tools

Salesforce×12 Marketo

Collaboration & Productivity

Jira×4 Atlassian×3 Confluence×3 Google Workspace

Other Software & Platforms

Microsoft Office×4 NetSuite×2 Google Sheets Greenhouse

Analytics & BI

Microsoft Excel×2 Sigma×2 Tableau×2 Microsoft Power BI

Programming Languages

Databases

Design Tools

Cloud Platforms

DevOps & Infrastructure

Linux

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OPEN ROLES

Hiring at Twist Bioscience

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LEADERSHIP

Founders & key people

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