Trevor Martin, Co-founder of Mammoth Biosciences Trevor co-founded Mammoth after completing his PhD in Biology at Stanford University, where he worked at the intersection of statistics and genetics. As CEO of Mammoth Biosciences, he is focused on creating the CRISPR application platform that embraces uses of CRISPR beyond simply gene editing. Mammoth's [...]
Dr. Rob Carlson, Managing Director of Bioeconomy Capital Rob is also a Principal at Biodesic, a strategy, engineering, and security consulting firm in Seattle that provides services to governments and corporations around the globe. At the broadest level, Dr. Carlson is interested in the future role of biology as a human technology. He has [...]
Daniel Georgiev, co-founder of XENO Cell Innovations Daniel Georgiev co-founded XENO Cell Innovations in 2016 to make diagnostic and bioengineering technologies that compute. XENO BIOLOGIC devices supplant large instrumentation and lab personnel by gathering and processing information in the same sample volume. Daniel received a PhD in Systems and control theory and [...]
Zal Bilimoria, co-founder & Managing Partner at Refactor Capital Zal Bilimoria is a co-founder and Managing Partner at Refactor Capital, a $50M seed fund backing founders solving fundamental human problems, with a deep focus in applied biology. His co-founder and partner David Lee was the Managing Partner at SV Angel. Prior to [...]
Nikolay Chechulin, CEO of DiploBio Nikolay Chechulin Is an entrepreneur from Russia, he studied at the faculty of Biology at MSU, then founded the company Exotic Planet - a retail store for reptiles etc., one of the largest companies in its field in Russia. Nikolay has also organized the exotic pets exhibition [...]
Andrey Buynevich, co-founder and scientific director of DiploBio Andrey Buynevich, studying at a master's program at the Faculty of Biology at Lomonosov's MSU, is researcher in RVOS (Restoration of Vision by Optogenetic Solutions)- the largest optogenetic prosthetics project in Russia, aimed at returning of human visual functions. Defended his project work on the study [...]
Kat Manalac, Partner at Y Combinator Kat Manalac is a Partner at Y Combinator where she participates in choosing and funding nearly 300 companies every year. Kat is specifically focused on outreach -- reaching out to communities of potential founders, and helping find the next Airbnb. Previously, she was Chief of Staff [...]
Thomas Meany, CEO of Cell-Free Technology Tom Meany is CEO of Cell-Free Technology, a company that develops high speed protein expression tools for researchers in industry and academia. Before that Tom completed a PhD in physics, a Marie Curie Fellowship and worked in the Quantum Information Group in Toshiba's Cambridge Research Labs [...]
Zack Abbott, CEO of ZBiotics Zack Abbott is the CEO and co-founder of ZBiotics, a company developing bioengineered probiotics founded in 2016. Zack holds a PhD in Microbiology and Immunology from the University of Michigan and developed ZBiotics’ core technology: probiotic bacteria genetically engineered to express targeted protein therapies directly inside the body. [...]
Will Patrick, CEO of Culture Robotics Will Patrick is the co-founder and CEO of Culture Robotics, which runs automated fermentation services for biotechnology companies. Before starting Culture Robotics, Will researched 3D printed microfluidics at the MIT Media Lab where he built tools to miniaturize and automate common assays and experiments run by synthetic biologists. Before MIT, [...]
