Tony Kulesa | Founder-led Biotech
Bio | Tony Kulesa is a Principal at Pillar VC, where he co-founded an incubator, Petri, with many leaders across companies like Ginkgo Bioworks, Twist Bioscience, Exact Sciences, and many more. He was an early investor in pioneering biotech companies like GALY, Nabla, Matterworks, and New Equilibrium Biosciences. Previously, he was the founding Director of the MIT BioMakerspace, a community biology laboratory and incubator space, and an Instructor at the MIT Department of Biological Engineering. He holds a PhD from MIT, where his inventions of new platforms for drug discovery and microbial therapeutics were highlighted in Science Editor’s Choice and Nature Reviews Drug Discovery.
Summary | If I were starting a biotech company, Tony Kulesa would be my first call. He's a relentless champion for scientists and founders, but especially scientist founders. He helped ignite the enthusiasm of the growing founder-led biotech movement and has good ideas about where it can go next.
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