Bioeconomy Capital

Building the Bioeconomy

Bioeconomy Fund 2

Bioeconomy Fund 2 launched with an initial close on 1 November, 2019.

Investing in early-stage companies that are building the Bioeconomy.

Bioeconomy Fund 2 follows on the thesis of Fund 1 and is primarily investing in industrial biotechnology, which includes materials, chemicals, and enzymes. It also encompasses the tools and technologies that enable the Bioeconomy. We are placing capital with companies that are building critical infrastructure for the 21st century global economy.

The rapid market maturation of the Bioeconomy is an enormous investment opportunity. We estimate that U.S. revenues from engineered biological systems were the equivalent of more than 2% of GDP in 2012, or greater than $324 billion, summed across biologics (drugs), crops, and industrial biotech (Nature Biotechnology, Mar 2016, for updates, see the Bioeconomy Dashboard). The industrial portion of these revenues we estimate to be more than $104 billion and has grown at 10-20% annually for the last decade. From 2010 to 2012 total biotech revenue growth accounted for 6% of total U.S. GDP growth.

Our investment approach: Biology is widely proclaimed as the key technology of the 21st century. We expect advances in biology to profoundly improve the human condition and contribute to the global economy. Bioeconomy Fund 1 is investing primarily in: (i) technologies that enable biological engineering and production; and (ii) companies that use those technologies to produce goods and services. We pay particular attention to opportunities to improve biological engineering and to build novel biological systems. The bioengineering market was estimated to be about $2 billion in 2015, and is forecast to grow 10-fold by 2020 with a CAGR of 45% (Sources: BCC Market Research, Transparency Market Research).

Yet biological engineering is currently very immature when compared to a well-developed discipline such as electrical or aeronautical engineering. What these established fields depend upon, and what is presently lacking in biology, is a quantitative design and build infrastructure composed of predictive simulation, sophisticated test and measurement equipment, and automated assembly and process monitoring. As a comparison, the first product produced by Hewlett Packard was a frequency standard used to calibrate electronics, and the first product shipped by Microsoft was BASIC, a tool to produce software; these seemingly prosaic engineering tools led to the creation of trillions of dollars of new wealth. Fund 2 is investing in companies that fill this same role of building valuable enabling technologies and processes for the bioeconomy. As bioengineering is applied to the production of additional goods and services, our portfolio companies will generate further enormous value. In summary, Bioeconomy Fund 2 is investing in companies that are laying the foundation for the rapidly expanding bioeconomy.

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