Gingko BioWorks, Reverdia and Calysta lead in early voting for the Hot 40

In Florida, Gingko BioWorks, Reverdia and Calysta have taken the lead in early voting in the 40 Hottest Emerging Companies in the Advanced Bioeconomy ballot. The Digest released the early-voting totals from Subscriber Voting — which do not yet include Social Votes or Invited International Selector votes.

The Rise of Fresh Faces

Companies such as AltAir Fuels, Impossible Foods, Caribou Biosciences, Ripple Foods, Clara Foods, Hampton Creek, Industrial Microbes, Zymergen, Bolt Threads, Gen9, Arzeda, Sustainability Consult and Beyond Meat were making strong runs in early subscriber voting as attention shifted among Digest readers to microbe development platforms and advanced nutrition.

In all, more than 60% of the companies currently in the preliminary rankings in the balloting have not previously appeared in the Hot 40.

View the leaders so far

The complete preliminary leaders can be seen here.

Voting Closes October 15th

On October 15th, voting closes. At that point, Social Votes and Invited International Selector Ballots will be combined with the Subscriber votes to generate the Hot 40.

Social Voting

This year, Social Voting has been expanded to permit voting via Facebook and Instagram — with substantial bonuses for creative photo voting. More about that here.

Rankings announced November 3rd

The Hot 40 will be officially announced at the Hot Party at ABLC Next, 6pm, PT, November 3rd, 2016 at the Hotel Nikko in San Francisco.