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Andrew Busey
Founder of Form Bio
Austin, Texas
Overview
Andrew Busey, a seasoned entrepreneur and investor based in Austin, Texas, has a strong background in start-ups and product strategy. Notable highlights include co-founding successful companies like Form Bio and Colossal Biosciences, as well as serving as a partner at Capital Factory and Hypergiant.
Currently, Andrew Busey is actively involved in investing in early-stage companies, focusing on sectors such as Human Capital/HRTech, Sales & CRM, IoT, Analytics, Enterprise, SaaS, and AI, demonstrating a keen eye for emerging technologies and innovative business models.
Work Experience
Co-founder / Co-CEO
2022 - Current
Backed by Jazz Ventures, Builders.vc, and Thomas Tull, Form Bio empowers scientific discovery through an end-to-end platform and machine learning models to benefit synthetic biology innovation including bio-manufacturing of medicines, biomaterials, biofuels, recyclable plastics and food alternatives. Form Bio's mission is to play a central role in helping companies that are working on life-enhancing innovations reach their greatest breakthroughs faster.
Form Bio is a platform for data management, workflows, and data visualisation.
Raised $30,000,000.00 from Salem Partners, Thomas Tull and Jazz Venture Partners.
Co-Founder / Chief Product Officer
2021
Strategy, innovation, productization, commercialization. -> Developed the idea and concepts for Form Bio, assembled team, led through spinout. -> Successfully spun out Form Bio from Colossal with Kent Wakeford where we are co-CEOs. -> Accelerate and de-risk the path to species de-extinction (mammoth, thylacine, and beyond). -> Identify, develop, and commercialize new opportunities in biology and technology.
Colossal Biosciences is a biotechnology research & reproductive technology.
Co-founder / Partner / Mentor
2009
Member of the investment committee for Funds I-IV. Capital Factory is a seed stage mentoring program for startups that provides a small amount of seed capital and mentoring sessions by many of Austin's most successful entrepreneurs. Capital Factory also has a properties group that provides amazing space for start-ups in Austin. http://www.capitalfactory.com
Capital Factory is a venture capital firm and an accelerator that seeks to invest in seed-stage, early-stage, and later-stage companies.
Mentor / Investor
2013
Techstars is a geographically distributed accelerator which provides both financial and advisory help to budding entrepreneurs. Focused exclusively on the early stage startup scene Techstars gives help to the freshest and most disruptive ideas. Mentors provide help, advice, counseling, and new perspectives to companies in the Techstars portfolio.
Techstars is an accelerator that provides pre-seed investment and mentoring for various early stage startups.
Raised $108,919,999.00 from SVB Financial Group and Foundry Group.
Co-Founder / Partner
2017 - 2023
Acquired by Trive Capital in August 2023.
Hypergiant Sensory Sciences is use AI to help companies understand their physical environments
Raised $5,000,000.00 from Chris Rhodes, Align Capital, Capital Factory and Ben Lamm.
Co-founder and CEO
2019 - 2021
Supply Drop curates and delivers home supplies to their customer's doors.
Founder / Chairman / Chief Product Officer
2013 - 2018
[Acquired by Liveperson NASDAQ:LPSN in September 2018] Conversable is the leading conversational intelligence platform, powering the intersection of AI with messaging and voice. Our AI-driven platform helps brands reach their customers with automated experiences on all major messaging and voice applications. Global brands trust our technology to enable conversational commerce, customer care, and deliver content on-demand to reach their customers on the messaging apps and voice platforms they use everyday. http://conversable.com
CEO and Founder
2013 - 2016
Developed several chat, social, and messaging products leading to the Conversable offering.
Executive Board Member, Game Development Program
2011 - 2018
Special Advisor, Social Casino Games
2016 - 2017
Worked with Zynga's Social Casino Group to develop fun and innovative new games, vet potential acquisitions, and identify new opportunities within the existing portfolio.
Zynga is a mobile game developer that creates and operates social games as live services played on the Internet.
Raised $2,318,550,786.00 from Kleiner Perkins, T. Rowe Price, Morgan Stanley and Fidelity.
CEO and Founder
2013 - 2016
[Acquired by Zynga NASDAQ:ZNGA] Building cool products with cool people. Built a myriad of casual and card-based games including Elements, Dragon Academy, and NBA Breakaway. Negotiated publishing deal with Nexon and a licensing deal with the NBA.
Team Chaos designs immersive video games.