About Me
About our Founder
Dr. Avi Rosenbaum is passionate about helping you succeed in developing generational biotech companies as a founder or investor. He has helped academic groups, startups, and investors successfully grow their businesses for maximum impact.
Avi works with startups, investors, and companies in biotech, pharma, medical device, and food-tech. He has industrial and academic R&D experience and an international network in Genomics, Personalized Medicine, Gene Therapy and Synthetic Biology. Additionally, he serves as a startup mentor at Endless Frontier Labs and Alchemist Accelerator and advises startups incubating at numerous academic institutions.
Previously, Avi led an R&D team and launched more than ten commercial products for the Ion Torrent Systems platform. This company democratized DNA sequencing through low cost instrumentation, was acquired by Life Technologies for $725M, and is now part of Thermo Fisher Scientific.
Avi has a Ph.D. from Harvard University where in the lab of Professor George Church he developed technologies for sequencing and interpreting human genomes. This research was published in Science, The Lancet, and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, and helped develop the field of Next Generation DNA Sequencing. In addition, he holds five patents and is a co-author of high-profile academic publications which have been cited thousands of times.
Valuable for Our Business
I first approached Avi when NOVOS was only a concept. He came through on multiple fronts, offering advice and introductions in areas ranging from biotech, to business strategy to strategic investors. Being a busy founder, I especially appreciate how Avi takes it upon himself to proactively make introductions that have ultimately been valuable for our business’ success.
An Invaluable Resource
Avi has mentored over ten companies at the Endless Frontier Labs program over the past three years. With his background experience as a scientist trained under one of the world’s foremost academic entrepreneurs, as a business executive, and an investor, Avi brings a uniquely rich perspective to his advisory relationships. With this perspective, Avi quickly grasps the most pressing needs of the founders he works with and helps them by providing advice on a range of needs including developing go-to-market strategies, honing communication skills, investment planning and with connections. Most important of all, Avi encourages founders to succeed by being very generous with his time and by empathizing with the key dilemmas and issues faced by founders. Avi also keeps himself up-to-date on advances in materials, synthetic biology and genomics making him an invaluable resource for assessments of novel ideas in these fast-growing fields.
Brought tremendous value and insight
Our venture partner Avi Rosenbaum led our firm's life science investment practice and brought tremendous value and insight to the firm's partnership. Avi sourced and managed several exciting early-stage life science investments that are now valued at many multiples of our initial investments. Avi is brilliant, kind, and an absolute pleasure to work with. I strongly recommend Avi to any investment firm looking to build their life science investment practice.
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