JM

Josh Moser

Co-founder at Plonts

Berkeley, California

Invests in

Stages:

  • Min Investment:

    $250,000.00
  • Max Investment:

    $500,000.00
  • Target Investment:

    $250,000.00

Work Experience

2021

  • Co-CEO

    2024

  • Co-Founder

    2021

    Plonts is accelerating the discovery of cultured foods, starting with a new category of hard, aged cheese made from sustainable plants.

  • Founding Board Member

    2022

    Homeworld Collective is a 501(c)(3) non-profit dedicated to nurturing the growth of climate biotech by fostering community, building knowledge, and directly supporting early stage research.

2020

  • Venture Partner

    2021

  • Partner, Sustainability

    2020 - 2021

    Launched in fall of 2019, Petri is a formation-stage venture capital firm dedicated to developing companies at the frontier of biology and engineering, co-created with Pillar VC and industry stars including Brian Baynes (serial entrepreneur and investor), Reshma Shetty (Ginkgo Bioworks), Emily Leproust (Twist Bioscience), Stan Lapidus (Exact Sciences, Cytyc), Daphne Koller (Insitro), Alec Nielsen (Asimov), Andy Beck (PathAI), JP Mangeolle (Danaher, Sciex, Phenomenex), Bernhard van Lengerich (General Mills, Beyond Meat), and leading researchers Chris Voigt, Pam Silver, and George Church. Petri supports early-stage founders to bring innovation out of the lab by investing pre-seed and seed capital, providing strategic guidance, and offering curated access to a network of 200+ seasoned mentors, talent from top universities, and 250+ investors and strategic partners.

  • Advisor

    2021

    In-situ soil carbon measurement

2017 - 2023

  • Advisor

    2020 - 2023

  • Chief Of Staff

    2017 - 2020

    Phylagen is digitizing the global microbiome to create a more transparent world

2015 - 2017

  • Investment Banking Analyst

    2015 - 2017