The Advanced Bioeconomy: New Fortunes 2019

Opportunity #1. Platform technologies. The genome editing market alone will reach $7.5B by 2024. It’s all happening in real time in this sector, right now, one of the very hottest investment sectors in Silicon Valley, and you see exotic amounts of capital pouring in right now. $400 million cap rounds and the like. Breeding, mutagenesis, polyploidy, DNA reading and writing, and genome editing might be the hottest of all as the impact of CRISPR is explored. Genetic transformation was at the heart of it when Frances Arnold picked up the Nobel Prize for chemistry last year.