BioVenture VoiCes with Chris Garabedian Podcast
1) Episode 25: Atlas Venture's Bruce Booth
Bruce Booth discusses his education and early career, the structure of Atlas and the types of investments it makes, investing in assets vs platforms, and more.
2) Episode 24: Samsara Biocapital's Srini Akkaraju
The Founder & Managing Partner of Samsara Biocapital, Dr. Akkaraju describes his early move from Standford to industry and various investment firms he worked for before founding Samsara in 2016. He di...Show More
3) Episode 23: a16z's Vineeta Agarwala
Still a practicing physician today, Vineeta Agarwala describes her educational background and early career, including experiences at the Broad Institute, Flatiron Health, and GV (Google Ventures). She...Show More
4) Episode 22: Adjuvant Capital's Glenn Rockman
Glenn Rockman describes the introduction to impact investing he gained from working for J.P. Morgan and along with the Gates Foundation on the Global Health Investment Fund, and how the idea of invest...Show More
5) Episode 21: Scion Life Sciences' Aaron Kantoff
Aaron Kantoff describes the road on the public markets side that eventually led him to venture, and recalls successful investments he helped lead at firms like Apple Tree Partners and Medicxi, such as...Show More
6) Episode 20: Breakout Ventures' Lindy Fishburne
Lindy Fishburne describes her educational background and career, and transitioning from the philanthropic Breakout Labs within the Thiel Foundation to Breakout Ventures, a traditional venture firm tha...Show More
7) Episode 19: Longwood Fund's Christoph Westphal
Dr. Westphal describes his upbringing and early career at McKinsey and Polaris, founding or co-founding companies like Momenta, Alnylam, Sirtris, Acceleron, and VeraStem, and creating the Longwood Fun...Show More
8) Episode 18: Playground Global's Jory Bell
Jory Bell shares the details of his expansive educational background and early career, which included being a product designer at Apple during the return of Steve Jobs. He describes Playground's engin...Show More
9) Episode 17: Norwest Venture Partners' Tiba Aynechi
Tiba Aynechi describes her career path, which has been spent entirely in the Bay Area since she earned her PhD from UCSF in the early 2000's. She describes the value of BD experience she earned while ...Show More
10) Episode 16: RA Capital's Josh Resnick
Josh Resnick describes his career path, which includes working on the venture side of both private funds and pharma (Merck). He explains the different investment strategies of RA Capital, and talks ab...Show More