Benjamin Heywood

General Partner

2020 - Current

SkyRiver Ventures is a leading venture capital firm focused on investing in early stage cutting edge technologies between North America and Asia. We seek to work with talented people in their early stages of technology development who have a vision to positively impact the world. We play an active role in supporting companies throughout their development from regionally focused startups to global tech companies.

Founding Member

2024

Boston’s first collaborative deep tech VC hub to foster cooperation, syndication, and knowledge sharing.

Member

2010

International network of business owners and leaders

Entrepreneurial Mentor

2019

Investor

2021

A community of investors, founders, and advisors supporting early stage efforts around brain, mind, mental health, and related themes.

Mentor

2021

The Creative Destruction Lab is a seed-stage program for scalable, science-based companies. Launched in 2012, the program employs an objectives-based mentoring process with the goal of maximizing equity-value creation.

Member, Leadership Board

2022

The Leadership Board of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center is a body of lay leaders committed to supporting the Medical Center’s mission of providing high quality, compassionate patient care, advancing biomedical research, and training the next generation of physicians.

Investor

2021

Co-Founder, President, and Chief Privacy Officer

2004 - 2019

PatientsLikeMe is a patient network that improves lives and a real-time research platform that advances medicine. Through the network, patients connect with others who have the same disease or condition and track and share their own experiences. In the process, they generate #dataforgood: data about the real-world nature of disease that help researchers, pharmaceutical companies, regulators, providers and nonprofits develop more effective products, services and care. With more than 400,000 members, PatientsLikeMe is a trusted source for real-world disease information and a clinically robust resource that has published more than 70 research studies. Visit us at www.patientslikeme.com or follow us via our blog, Twitter or Facebook.

Global Chief Privacy Officer

2018 - 2019

Founded in October 2015, iCarbonX is the global pioneer in digital health management, and is building an ecosystem of digital life based on a combination of an individual's life data, the Internet and artificial intelligence. The company’s leadership has deep experience in omics technology, medical service, biological data analysis, artificial intelligence and data mining.