Invests in
Stages:
Sectors:
Locations:
Min Investment:
$250,000.00Max Investment:
$5,000,000.00Target Investment:
$500,000.00
Skills
Education
Master of Fine Arts - MFA
Lists including Po
Investments
VIA BioFuels
Total Funding:
Avalo
Total Funding: $3.3M
GOZEN
Total Funding: $3M
Farm Minerals
Total Funding:
Nutrition from Water
Total Funding:
Finless Foods
Total Funding: $88M
California Organic Fertilizers
Total Funding:
California Cultured
Total Funding: $1
Cauldron Ferm
Total Funding: $13M
AquaLith Advanced Materials
Total Funding:
Work Experience
2020
Managing Director at IndieBio / SOSV
2020
2018 - 2020
Strategy Director
2018 - 2020
SOSV's IndieBio is the world's leading startup development program for life science companies with solutions for Human & Planetary Health.
1994 - 2020
Founder and Partner
1994 - 2020
The Writers' Grotto is a workspace for working professional writers in San Francisco. We each have private offices with shared classrooms, conference rooms, and kitchens. Our current space has room for 80+ writers with a combination of personal offices, shared offices, and open workspaces. We have a lively writing classes program with about 3 classes per night.
2016 - 2019
Senior Editor, The Future of Medicine
2016 - 2019
2014 - 2019
Contributing Editor
2014 - 2019
Consulting, speaking, and reporting on how sports entertainment will change over the next 5-15 years.
2014 - 2018
Futurist & Consultant
2014 - 2018
Futurist across many markets: sports, medicine, food, and sustainability, principally.
2012 - 2018
President
2012 - 2018
SF Rec & Park's public benefit partner in youth soccer, we register 8,000 sf youth players, almost 600 teams, across three league programs.
1995 - 2015
Author & Writer
1995 - 2015
Author of seven New York Times bestsellers, awarded with nine national awards of distinction; frequent contributor to Wired, New York Times Magazine, Newsweek, New York, Time, and Wall Street Journal (op ed page). Screenwriting in LA for a few years as well.
1990 - 2002
Board Member
1990 - 2002
Board Chair and Board Member during two different ownership groups; eventual sale to Perseus Books.
1989 - 1995
Associate Publisher
1989 - 1995