JN

Janis Naeve

Science enthusiast and venture capitalist committed to bringing better health to all.

San Francisco, California

Invests in

Stages:

  • Min Investment:

    $5,000,000.00
  • Max Investment:

    $15,000,000.00
  • Target Investment:

    $10,000,000.00

Work Experience

  • Partner

    2022

  • Advisory Board Member

    2024

    AI-SDM is newly formed an interdisciplinary research institute funded by NSF to harness the power of AI and social sciences to empower decision-makers with tools that augment human judgment in complex, time-sensitive situations. AI-SDM at CMU collaborates with a diverse network of partners, including academic institutions, government agencies, and non-profit organizations, to develop and deploy impactful solutions that account for risk, trust, and equity in decision-making.

  • Board Observer

    2022

    Excision BioTherapeutics, Inc. is a clinical-stage biotechnology company developing CRISPR-based therapies as potential cures for viral infectious diseases.

  • Board Member

    2022

    Mission Bio is a leading life science company, specializing in the advancement of single-cell DNA and multiomic analysis for precision medicine, providing advanced tools and analytics for cell and gene therapies.

  • Board Member

    2022

    Algen, spun out of Jennifer Doudn'as lab is a platform therapeutics and drug discovery company using the world’s leading CRISPR and AI to uncover disease-driving RNA messages to find treatments for cancer, inflammation and other diseases.

2022

  • Board Member

    2022

    Probius, spun out of Stanford, is a deep-tech company bridging the data gap between biology and AI by combining physics, mathematics, and biological data into their bioanalytical platform, Quantum Electrochemical Spectroscopy (QES) which translates a sample aliquot into a high-dimensional phenotypic signature, a digital twin, that can be re-analyzed and redefined in the cloud.

2022

  • Board Observer

    2022

    CellFE has developed a scalable, high throughput microfluidic device for the efficient delivery of gene-editing molecules into cells enabling cell and gene therapies.

2022 - 2023

  • Board Member

    2022 - 2023

    Miroculus applied microfluidics in designing intuitive and flexible platforms based on its patented technology, simplifying complicated Next Generation sequencing protocols. Company was acquired by Integra Biosciences in March 2023

2022 - 2022

  • KidneyX Steering Committee

    2022 - 2022

2020 - 2022

  • The Fund@Caltech Advisory Committee

    2020 - 2022