SEC Form S-8 filed by Ginkgo Bioworks Holdings Inc.
$DNA
Biotechnology: Biological Products (No Diagnostic Substances)
Health Care
As filed with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission on February 26, 2026.
Registration No. 333-
UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
FORM S-8
REGISTRATION STATEMENT
UNDER
THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933
GINKGO BIOWORKS HOLDINGS, INC.
(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in Its Charter)
| Delaware | 87-2652913 | |||||||
(State or Other Jurisdiction of Incorporation or Organization) | (I.R.S. Employer Identification No.) | |||||||
27 Drydock Avenue
8th Floor
Boston, MA 02210
(877) 422-5362
(Address, Including Zip Code, and Telephone Number, Including Area Code, of Registrant’s Principal Executive Offices)
Ginkgo Bioworks Holdings, Inc. 2021 Incentive Award Plan
(Full title of the plan)
Steven Coen
Chief Financial Officer
Ginkgo Bioworks Holdings, Inc.
27 Drydock Avenue
8th Floor
Boston, MA 02210
(877) 422-5362
(Name, Address, Including Zip Code, and Telephone Number, Including Area Code, of Agent for Service)
Copies to:
Marko Zatylny Ropes & Gray LLP Prudential Tower 800 Boylston Street Boston, MA 02199 (617) 951-7000 | Karen Tepichin General Counsel Ginkgo Bioworks Holdings, Inc. 27 Drydock Avenue 8th Floor Boston, MA 02210 (877) 422-5362 | |||||||
Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated filer, a non-accelerated filer, a smaller reporting company or an emerging growth company. See the definitions of “large accelerated filer,” “accelerated filer,” “smaller reporting company” and “emerging growth company” in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act:
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If an emerging growth company, indicate by check mark if the registrant has elected not to use the extended transition period for complying with any new or revised financial accounting standards provided pursuant to Section 7(a)(2)(B) of the Securities Act ☐
REGISTRATION OF ADDITIONAL SHARES
PURSUANT TO GENERAL INSTRUCTION E
Pursuant to General Instruction E of Form S-8, the Ginkgo Bioworks Holdings, Inc. (the “Company”) is filing this Registration Statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”) to register (1) 2,467,217 additional shares of the Company’s Class A common stock, $0.0001 par value per share (the “Class A Common Stock”) and 2,467,217 additional shares of the Company’s Class B common stock, $0.0001 par value per share (the “Class B Common Stock”) under the Company’s 2021 Incentive Award Plan (the “2021 Incentive Award Plan”), pursuant to the provision of the plan providing for an automatic increase in the number of shares reserved for issuance under such plan for the 2026 fiscal year, and subject to the share limits prescribed in such plan. The shares authorized for issuance under the 2021 Incentive Award Plan can be either in the form of Class A Common Stock (that is convertible to Class B Common Stock on a one-for-one basis) or Class B Common Stock (that is convertible to Class A Common Stock on a one-for-one basis). As a result, we have registered the maximum number of shares of Class A Common Stock and the maximum number of shares of Class B Common Stock that could be issued.
This Registration Statement hereby incorporates by reference the contents of the Registrant’s registration statements on Form S-8 filed with the Commission on February 25, 2025 (Registration No. 333-285235), March 1, 2024 (Registration No. 333-277558), March 13, 2023 (Registration No. 333-270506), October 19, 2022 (Registration No. 333-267952) and November 19, 2021 (Registration No. 333-261205).
PART II
INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT
Item 8. | Exhibits. | ||||
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SIGNATURES
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, the Company certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the requirements for filing on Form S-8 and has duly caused this registration statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Boston, Commonwealth of Massachusetts, on February 26, 2026.
| Ginkgo Bioworks Holdings, Inc. | |||||
| /s/ Jason Kelly | |||||
| Name: Jason Kelly | |||||
| Title: Chief Executive Officer | |||||
POWER OF ATTORNEY
KNOW ALL PERSONS BY THESE PRESENTS, that each person whose signature appears below constitutes and appoints each of Jason Kelly and Steven Coen, acting alone or with another attorney-in-fact, his or her true and lawful attorney-in-fact and agent, with full power of substitution and resubstitution, for such person and in his or her name, place and stead, in any and all capacities, to sign any and all amendments to the Registration Statement on Form S-8 of Ginkgo Bioworks Holdings, Inc. and any subsequent registration statements related thereto pursuant to Instruction E to Form S-8 (and all further amendments, including post-effective amendments thereto), and to file the same, with all exhibits thereto, and other documents in connection therewith, with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”), and generally to do all such things in their names and behalf in their capacities as officers and directors to enable the Company to comply with the provisions of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and all requirements of the SEC, granting unto said attorneys-in-fact and agents, and each of them, full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing requisite and necessary to be done in connection therewith, as fully to all intents and purposes as he might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that said attorneys-in-fact and agents, or any of them, or their or his or her substitutes or substitute, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, this Registration Statement has been signed by the following persons in the capacities indicated.
| Name | Title | Date | ||||||
| /s/ Jason Kelly | Chief Executive Officer and Director | February 26, 2026 | ||||||
| Jason Kelly | (Principal Executive Officer) | |||||||
| /s/ Steven Coen | Chief Financial Officer | February 26, 2026 | ||||||
| Steven Coen | (Principal Financial Officer and Principal Accounting Officer) | |||||||
| /s/ Shyam Sankar | Director, Chair of the Board | February 26, 2026 | ||||||
| Shyam Sankar | ||||||||
/s/ Ross Fubini | Director | February 26, 2026 | ||||||
Ross Fubini | ||||||||
/s/ Christian Henry | Director | February 26, 2026 | ||||||
Christian Henry | ||||||||
/s/ Sri Kosuri | Director | February 26, 2026 | ||||||
Sri Kosuri | ||||||||
| /s/ Reshma Shetty | President and Director | February 26, 2026 | ||||||
| Reshma Shetty | ||||||||
| /s/ Harry E. Sloan | Director | February 26, 2026 | ||||||
| Harry E. Sloan | ||||||||