Amyris vs Capra Biosciences

Amyris was an Emeryville fermentation company that engineered yeast to make ingredients like squalane; it overspent building consumer-beauty brands, filed Chapter 11 in 2023, and sold off its brands and assets.

Capra Biosciences uses a modular biofilm-reactor platform to make specialty chemicals like retinol from low-cost waste feedstocks.