Ranking · Summer 2024 · Industrials

1849 bio

Engineering microbes for miners to unlock billions in trapped metal

6.0%

odds of being acquired in the next two years

0.9× the average (6.8%)

#2665 of 4,339 active YC companies · top 62%

Team of 3 · San Francisco, CA, USA

Raises the odds

↑ 1.5–3 years since YC

↑ team of 3–5

↑ based in United States of America

↑ based in America / Canada

Lowers the odds

↓ industry: Industrials

↓ tag: Biotech

↓ tag: Climate

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1849.bio YC profile

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