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Joanna Soroka

Principal at Hitachi Ventures

Munich, Bavaria

Invests in

Stages:

Locations:

  • Min Investment:

    $100,000.00
  • Max Investment:

    $5,000,000.00
  • Target Investment:

    $1,500,000.00

Work Experience

  • Principal

    2021

    Portfolio: ArsenalBio, Scipher Medicine, Cure51, Relation Therapeutics

2021 - 2021

  • Manager - Pharma & Life Sciences

    2021 - 2021

2014 - 2021

  • Senior Product Owner

    2020 - 2021

  • Manager Strategy at Digital Workplace Group

    2018 - 2020

    - Focus on digital- and bio-healthcare platform research strategy

  • Team Manager in Digital Healthcare at Workplace Hub Programme

    2016 - 2018

    - Established a new Konica Minolta facility focused on Digital Healthcare in Germany - Led a business incubation team in Germany and USA - Managed a global R&D project aimed at developing a new Healthcare IT platform and establishing a platform business strategy

  • Digital Healthcare Manager at Business Innovation Center Europe

    2014 - 2016

    - Developed a digital healthcare strategy for Business Innovation Center in Europe and managed business incubation projects - Assessed startups in Europe including investment, strategic and technology partnerships - Established a partner network in Europe

2012 - 2014

  • Postdoctoral Research Fellow - Marie Curie Fellow

    2012 - 2014

    - Genetic Recombination Laboratory - Research topic: The breast cancer tumour suppressor BRCA2 - Focus on DNA repair pathways associated with cancer

  • Research Assistant

    2007 - 2012

    - Institute of Biotechnology - Research topic: Heat shock response, molecular chaperones, post-translational modifications - Focus on protein biochemistry