#114 – BEIJING GENOMICS INSTITUTE

Overview

Acquisitions: 1 Acquisition
Total Equity Funding: $323.55M in 1 Round from 2 Investors

Headquarters: Shenzhen, Guangdong
Description: BGI is the world’s largest genomic sequencing company
Categories: Health Care, Genetics, Bioinformatics
Website: http://www.genomics.cn/index

Company Details

Founded: November, 1999
Founders: Yang Huanming, Wang Jian, Yu Jun and Liu Siqi
Key people: Mu Feng (rotating CEO), Yang Huanming (Chairman), Wang Jian (President), Yang Shuang (COO)
Aliases: Beijing Genomics Institute
Contact: 86 755 2527 3620
Employees: 1k – 5k | None found in Crunchbase

BGI is a genomic sequencing company that provide biological research and application services for researchers, diagnosticians, and individuals. It offers its services in China, Asia Pacific, America, and Europe. It offers a sequencing, mass spectrometry, and computing platform.

BGI facilitates organizations, including BGI Research, BGI Tech, BGI College, BGI Diagnosis, BGI Agro, BGI Mfg, CNGB, CG, and GigaScience. The company was acquired by Complete Genomics in September 2012.

BGI was founded in 1999.