Solazyme, Inc

Solazyme derives the root of its name from the Latin "solaris," meaning "of the sun," and the balance of its name from "enzyme," a protein that functions as a biological machine catalyzing biochemical reactions. Solazyme is a biotechnology company devoted to harnessing the energy-harvesting machinery of photosynthetic microbes to produce valuable products. Exploiting microbial photosynthesis, a biochemical system benefiting from 2.5 billion years of evolutionary optimization yet brought to genomic light very recently, the Company utilizes proprietary genetic engineering methods to develop commercially relevant, sunlight-driven biochemical pathways.