Ginkgo Bioworks to Begin Trading Today as NYSE: DNA with Ove… – MENAFN.COM

Ginkgo Bioworks to Begin Trading Today as NYSE: DNA with Ove… – MENAFN.COM

(MENAFN - PR Newswire) BOSTON, Sept. 17, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Ginkgo Bioworks, Inc. ("Ginkgo") and Soaring Eagle Acquisition Corp. (Nasdaq: SRNG ) ("Soaring Eagle"), a special purpose acquisition company, today announced the closing of their previously announced business combination. The combined company is named Ginkgo Bioworks Holdings, Inc., and the combined company's shares of Class A common stock and public warrants will begin trading today on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbols "DNA" and "DNA. WS" respectively. The business combination was approved at a special meeting of Soaring Eagle stockholders on September 14, 2021. Ginkgo launched in 2008 with the mission to make biology easier to engineer. Much like computer programming impacted every information-based industry through the ability to program the flow of data, cell programming has the potential to impact every physical goods industry through the ability to program the flow of atoms. Ginkgo's platform leverages advanced robotic automation, proprietary software, and data analytics to continuously improve the technology ("Foundry") as well as the knowledge and re-usable biological assets ("Codebase") required to engineer biology. Today, companies across industries use Ginkgo's cell programming platform to find more effective, environmentally friendly ways to create products including food ingredients,