Amyris vs Cauldron

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.

Cauldron is an Australian precision-fermentation company whose continuous 'hyper-fermentation' platform aims to boost yields and cut biomanufacturing costs.