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Alice Lin Pomponio

Managing Director at BrightEdge

Greater Boston

Overview 

Alice Lin Pomponio is an Impact Investor and Social Innovation Entrepreneur based in Greater Boston, with a background in biotechnology and lifesciences. She currently serves as the Managing Director at BrightEdge and Vice President of Innovation and Impact Investing at the American Cancer Society, overseeing strategic planning, advocacy, market access, and leadership in the pharmaceutical industry and biopharmaceuticals. With a strong focus on social impact, she invests in various sectors including wellness & fitness, therapeutics, medical devices, digital health, and biotech, contributing to the growth and development of innovative companies in the Boston/New England area.

Work Experience 

  • Managing Director

    2021 - Current

    Fueling the fight against cancer through impact venture capital and patient-centric innovation

  • Vice President Innovation and Impact Investing

    2022

  • Faculty

    2020

    Healthcare Ventures (Harvard-MIT HST.978/Sloan 15.367) MIT LinQ Catalyst and IMPACT Advisor

  • Board Observer

    2023

  • Board Observer

    2022

Naveris is a biotechnology company that provides clinically validated blood tests for the early detection of cancer.

Raised $66,334,833.00 from TechU Ventures, Gurnet Point Capital, BrightEdge Fund, R-Cubed Capital Partners, Gurnet Point Capital and Sky Ventures Group.

  • Board Observer

    2021

Nusano is a physics firm that produces radioisotopes, tiny tracers doctors use to diagnose and cure cancer and other ailments.

Raised $115,000,000.00 from Section 32 and Wasatch Group.

  • Board Observer

    2021

Freenome is a biotechnology company with a comprehensive multiomics platform for cancer detection using a routine blood draw.

Raised $1,351,550,000.00 from BrightEdge Fund, T. Rowe Price, ArrowMark Partners, Roche, Section 32, Sands Capital Ventures, Artis Ventures (AV), Andreessen Horowitz, ARK Investment Management and Pura Vida Investments.

  • Board Observer

    2022 - 2023

Vincere Health is a smarter incentives, biofeedback and coaching platform for behavior change.

Raised $6,039,360.00 from Inception Health, Celtic House Asia Partners, Flare Capital Partners, SixThirty, Trevor Fetter, BrightEdge Fund, The Yard Ventures, Techstars, American Family Insurance Institute for Corporate and Social Impact and Trevor Fetter.

  • Board Observer

    2021 - 2023

Interius BioTherapeutics is a biopharmaceutical company that develops in vivo cell-specific gene medicines to treat B cell lymphomas.

Raised $154,383,867.00 from Penn Medicine Co-Investment Program, Agent Capital, The Mark Foundation for Cancer Research, Cormorant Asset Management, Quan Capital, BrightEdge Fund, OUP (Osage University Partners), RA Capital Management, Logos Capital and Pfizer Venture Investments.

  • Board Observer

    2021 - 2022

Immunitas Therapeutics is a single cell genomics-based drug discovery company that modulates oncology targets.

Raised $97,000,000.00 from M Ventures, Evotec, 120 Capital Management, NS Investment, BrightEdge Fund, Leaps by Bayer, Medical Excellence Capital, Longwood Fund, Ono Venture Investment and Novartis Venture Fund.

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