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Joshua Elkington

Founder and General Partner at Axial

San Francisco Bay Area

Invests in

Stages:

  • Min Investment:

    $100,000.00
  • Max Investment:

    $5,000,000.00
  • Target Investment:

    $1,500,000.00

Work Experience

2019

  • Founder and General Partner

    2019

    Helping great inventors build their own business. We've partnered and invested in companies like Appia Bio, Seranova Bio, Concerto Biosciences, Enable Medicine, BigHat Biosciences, Tilda Research, Think Bioscience, among others.

2017 - 2019

  • Scientific Advisor

    2017 - 2019

    Helping out friends figure out where AI can impact life sciences.

2016 - 2019

  • Analyst

    2016 - 2019

    Learning venture capital.

2016 - 2019

  • Startup Helper

    2016 - 2019

    Got the courage to start investing and helping startups myself. Doing deals I couldn't push through on Monday meetings. GenEdit, Culture Biosciences, Unnatural Products, Inflammatix, Orca Bio, Serotiny, Plexium, Coral Genomics, Tierra, Juvena, among others. Also pitched in the help a few VC firms get off the ground. Projects with TreeStar. And did some investing in AI, crypto, energy, but don't have the time right now to track anything but life sciences. All investing of mine is now solely through Axial.

2016 - 2016

  • Consultant

    2016 - 2016

    Through MGV did a lot of analysis work mainly helping with initial market research and customer discovery to get Pairwise Plants started.

2015 - 2016

  • Scientific Consulting

    2015 - 2016

    Through Danaher Labs, Molecular Devices, and Beckman Coulter, helped out with technology licensing, product development, and market analysis. Fun time traveling down to Santa Clara during grad school.