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Arvind Gupta: Pioneering Biotech Frontiers - Redefining Health, Planet, and Profit | EP. 032
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Arvind Gupta: Pioneering Biotech Frontiers - Redefining Health, Planet, and Profit | EP. 032
FromCLIMB by VSC
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Length:
34 minutes
Released:
Jun 7, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
Arvind Gupta co-leads Mayfield’s engineering biology practice and is Founder and Venture Advisor at IndieBio. He was the first investor in breakout bio companies such as Geltor, Synthex, Prime Roots, NotCo, Prellis, New Culture, DNA Lite and Memphis Meats.
As Founder of IndieBio, Arvind redefined the pace and possibilities of early stage biotech, investing in over 136 companies in five years, defining human and planetary health, and growing the IndieBio portfolio into billions of dollars in value. Prior to founding IndieBio, Arvind was Design Director at IDEO in Shanghai where he earned numerous international design awards.
He is also a co-author of Decoding the World: A Roadmap for the Questioner, and a frequent speaker at TechCrunch Disrupt, Slush, TedX and Future FoodTech. He received his B.S. in Genetic Engineering from UCSB. He holds 8 patents.
About VSC Ventures:
For 20 years, our award-winning PR agency VSC has worked with innovative startups on positioning, messaging, and awareness and we are bringing that same expertise to help climate startups with storytelling and narrative building. Last year, general partners Vijay Chattha and Jay Kapoor raised a $21M fund to co-invest in the most promising startups alongside leading climate funds.
Through the conversations on our show CLIMB by VSC, we're excited to share what we're doing at VSC and VSC Ventures on climate innovation with companies like Ample, Actual, Sesame Solar, Synop, Vibrant Planet, and Zume among many others.
As Founder of IndieBio, Arvind redefined the pace and possibilities of early stage biotech, investing in over 136 companies in five years, defining human and planetary health, and growing the IndieBio portfolio into billions of dollars in value. Prior to founding IndieBio, Arvind was Design Director at IDEO in Shanghai where he earned numerous international design awards.
He is also a co-author of Decoding the World: A Roadmap for the Questioner, and a frequent speaker at TechCrunch Disrupt, Slush, TedX and Future FoodTech. He received his B.S. in Genetic Engineering from UCSB. He holds 8 patents.
About VSC Ventures:
For 20 years, our award-winning PR agency VSC has worked with innovative startups on positioning, messaging, and awareness and we are bringing that same expertise to help climate startups with storytelling and narrative building. Last year, general partners Vijay Chattha and Jay Kapoor raised a $21M fund to co-invest in the most promising startups alongside leading climate funds.
Through the conversations on our show CLIMB by VSC, we're excited to share what we're doing at VSC and VSC Ventures on climate innovation with companies like Ample, Actual, Sesame Solar, Synop, Vibrant Planet, and Zume among many others.
Released:
Jun 7, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode
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