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Out of the Lab is a podcast by the makers of Bountiful.work, a platform connecting people, problems and solutions to improve our planet. Out of the Lab interviews entrepreneurs, scientists and investors who have successfully taken important research out of the laboratory and commercialized it, often creating spinoff companies or startups. The hope is that this podcast can help stimulate new entrepreneurs to do the same with important technology to move the world forward.
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April 20, 2022
<p>Yaron Daniely is a Partner & Head of aMoon Alpha and an investment leader at aMoon Velocity, an early stage investment fund that pursues dis-ruptive, cutting-edge technologies with the potential to accelerate cure. This is a fast-paced, high energy discussion from someone who has seen all sides of the ecosystem, from PhD researcher and post-doc, to entrepreneur and public company CEO, to the world of tech transfer at a top university, and who is now bridging all of the gaps in between as an investor at a fund with more than $1B AUM. </p> <p>We get into how he developed an interest in translational research, taking that to industry, developing curricula for scientists to learn about business, and how he helped to transform the tech transfer industry, including filling the proof of concept funding gap. He goes into how to identify what technologies and investigators have the highest chance of creating commercial success, how to incentivize tech transfer employees and increase the volume of licensing deals they do, and how to attract high-caliber entrepreneurs to join commercialization spinouts.</p> <p>This conversation is beyond worthwhile for anyone interested in translational research, entrepreneurship, or working in the field of technology transfer. Enjoy! </p> <p><strong>More about Yaron</strong></p> <p>Born in Israel and raised in Florida, Yaron was fascinated by science, medicine and tech-nology from a young age. Driven by a passion for discovering and creating novel solu-tions, and a persistent quest for challenging the status quo wherever he went, Yaron spent much of his career leading innovative health tech companies. He brings to aMoon a wealth of hands-on experience as a business leader in both the private and public sec-tors. In return, aMoon fulfills his craving for cutting-edge science and strategic thinking, applied to the creation and mentorship of young companies focused on impacting people’s health.</p> <p>Prior to aMoon, Yaron was the President and CEO of Yissum, Hebrew University’s ac-claimed Technology Transfer Company, and Co-Chairperson of the Israel Technology Transfer Network (ITTN), where he converted academic research into practical prod-ucts and technologies. Before leading Yissum, he spent 14 years as a senior executive - and 10 years as CEO - of private and NASDAQ-traded Biopharma and Biotech compa-nies. He also co-founded and served for ten years as the director of Israel's first and leading MBA program for professionals of the local Biomedical industry at the College of Management Academic Studies.</p> <p>Yaron earned his PhD from the Sackler Institute of Graduate Biomedical Sciences at the NYU School of Medicine. Following his doctoral program, he served as a Visiting Fel-low at the NIH, and as an American Cancer Society Postdoctoral Fellow in the Depart-ment of Molecular Cell Biology at The Weizmann Institute for Science in Israel. He also holds an MBA from the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology.</p> <p>Join our community of hard science researchers, grad students and entrepreneurs looking to solve global problems. Sign up on bountiful.work for more. -Follow us on Twitter (twitter.com/bountifulwork) and LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/company/bountifulwork) -If you want to contribute to this effort, help us out by donating to outofthelab.eth</p> <p><br></p> <p><br></p>
March 10, 2022
<p>Alex is the co-founder and President of Fluence Analytics, a technology startup that provides real-time analytics solutions for the optimization of manufacturing and R&D processes. His vision and leadership took the Tulane University spin-out from patented laboratory concepts to a company delivering innovative hardware and software solutions for process monitoring and optimization to chemical and biopharmaceutical manufacturers. </p> <p>I love this story because Alex, without a technical background and technology commercialization experience, was able to build this company from the ground up to where Alex is now a named inventor on several of their patents, he has led the company in raising millions of dollars, hiring dozens of employees, and is selling multiple products into different verticals around the world. He discusses everything he learned via "trial by fire" including bringing in the right expertise and mentorship, best practices in team building, working with tech transfer offices, customer development, and how to fund the early operations and R&D of a deeptech startup. Alex's journey definitely has the power to inspire more people to commercialize deeptech research. Enjoy! </p> <p><strong>More about Alex</strong></p> <p>Prior to founding Fluence Analytics, Alex worked as the Associate Director for Operations and Strategy at PolyRMC, a Tulane university R&amp;D center that is active in fundamental and applied polymer research. Alex is listed as an inventor on several patents and has served on the boards for the Smart Manufacturing Leadership Coalition and the Applied Polymer Technology Extension Consortium. In 2016 Forbes recognized Alex as a 30 under 30 recipient, and he has been recognized with several regional awards for entrepreneurship and innovation. Alex also regularly mentors entrepreneurs, students and faculty on the commercialization of technology, as well as entrepreneurship.</p> <p>Connect with Alex on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/alex-reed-504/) </p> <p><strong>More about Fluence Analytics</strong></p> <p>Fluence Analytics has raised over $13 million in equity funding from institutional venture capital (Energy Innovation Capital, Diamond Edge Ventures – strategic venture group for Mitsubishi Chemical Holdings, Yokogawa Electric Corporation and JSR). The agile company has more than 25 team members, and it has several multinational chemical and biopharmaceutical companies as customers. Additionally, Fluence Analytics’ products are now in use on three continents.</p> <p>Learn more about Fluence (https://www.fluenceanalytics.com/) </p> <p>Join our community of hard science researchers, grad students and entrepreneurs looking to solve global problems. Sign up on bountiful.work for more. -Follow us on Twitter (twitter.com/bountifulwork) and LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/company/bountifulwork) -If you want to contribute to this effort, help us out by donating to outofthelab.eth</p>
January 26, 2022
<p>Trevor Best is the CEO and Co-Founder of Syzygy Plasmonics, a startup pioneering a new type of chemical reactor driven by light rather than heat, enabling the potential for dramatically more efficient chemical manufacturing. Trevor and his co-founder, Dr. Suman Khatiwada, commercialized this novel photochemical tech out of Rice University. Trevor covers how he and Suman gained experience evaluating R&D while workign together at Baker Hughes, the methodology they developed to assess new technologies he calls TMI - technology / market / impact - and how to poke holes and find the big hairy problem that's going to kill your business. He covers everything from the very beginning - how they started reading journal publications looking for interesting technologies to commercialize, through their engagement with the inventors at Rice and their process in negotiating a license with the tech transfer office (TTO). Trevor goes into his past startups and why the failed and lessons learned. This convo is rife with good advice for grad-students and entrepreneurs looking to commercialize and I found it personally inspiring. With the right work ethic and the will/stamina to see things through, getting an impactful deeptech invention out of the lab and commercialized is achievable. Enjoy! </p> <p><strong>More about Trevor</strong></p> <p>At Syzygy, Trevor has successfully raised three funding rounds. He is currently focusing on bringing Syzygy’s revolutionary photochemical technology to market. Before starting Syzygy, he worked for Baker Hughes. There he steadily progressed into management, where he gained expertise in quality assurance (Six Sigma Black Belt), regulatory compliance, technology development management, project and personnel management, supply chain management, internal/external communications, and business process architecture.</p> <p>Connect with Trevor on <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/trevorwbest/">LinkedIn</a>. </p> <p><strong>More about Syzygy</strong></p> <p>Developed at Rice University by Professor Halas and Professor Nordlander, this is the world’s highest performance photocatalyst. It has been published in leading academic journals such as <a href="https://science.sciencemag.org/content/362/6410/69">Science</a>, <a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41929-020-0466-5">Nature</a>, and <a href="https://www.pnas.org/content/pnas/113/32/8916.full.pdf">PNAS</a>, to name a few. The catalyst is a platform technology and it has been demonstrated on many different chemical reactions resulting in more than a dozen publications.</p> <p>Visit Syzygy's <a href="https://plasmonics.tech/">website</a> to learn more. </p> <p>Join our community of hard science researchers, grad students and entrepreneurs looking to solve global problems. Sign uo on <a href="https://t.co/aHkKd8cQ3t" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">bountiful.work</a></p> <p>Don't forget to follow us on <a href="https://twitter.com/bountifulwork" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Twitter</a> and <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/company/bountiful-work/" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">LinkedIn</a>. </p> <p>If you want to contribute to this effort, get us at <strong>outofthelab.eth </strong></p> <p><br></p> <p><br></p>
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Out of the Lab is a podcast by the makers of Bountiful.work, a platform connecting people, problems and solutions to improve our planet.
Out of the Lab interviews entrepreneurs, scientists and investors who have successfully taken important research out of the laboratory and commercialized it, often creating spinoff companies or startups. The hope is that this podcast can help stimulate new entrepreneurs to do the same with important technology to move the world forward.
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