Craig Asher
Managing Director at OMX Ventures
Washington, District of Columbia
Overview
Work Experience
Managing Director
2020 - Current
OMX Ventures is a committed capital fund continuing the work of Trancos Ventures and Vital Venture Capital in investing in bio tools and therapeutics startups primarily at the intersection of data/engineering and biology. We typically make our first investment in the Seed or Series A rounds, then reserve for every subsequent round. We aim to support the CEOs of our portfolio companies in go-to-market, product marketing, fundraising, hiring, intellectual property, product development, organizational structure, sales, manufacturing, and software development. We partner on every deal with other VCs.
OMX Ventures is investing at the convergence of biology and computing.
Managing Partner
2016
We are no longer making investments in new portfolio companies via Trancos Ventures. Instead we are making all investments in new portfolio companies via our fund OMX Ventures. We continue to make add-on investments in the existing Trancos Ventures companies.
Board Observer
2022
Board Observer
2022
Aperiam Bio partners with enzyme engineers to create and share stabilized, solubilized, and catalytically optimized proteins.
Raised $12,660,002.00 from Civilization Ventures, KdT Ventures, OMX Ventures, Axial VC and Saya Bio.
Investor
2022
Replay is a genome writing company reprogramming biology by writing and delivering big DNA.
Raised $55,000,000.00 from OMX Ventures, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts, Artis Ventures (AV), Salt Ventures, DeciBio Ventures, Lansdowne Partners and Axial VC.
Board Member
2021
VedaBio innovative platform for near-instant molecular detection.
Raised $40,000,000.00 from OMX Ventures and Kleinmuntz Associates.
Principal
2008
We are winding down Vital Venture Capital as we continue to exit our portfolio investments. We continue to make add-on investments in our existing companies.
Board Member
2021
Glyphic Biotechnologies is a biotechnology company that develops a protein sequencing platform.
Raised $7,783,799.00 from stealth.vc.
Board Observer
2021
Education
MS
1993 - 1994
Master of Business Administration - MBA
1991 - 1993
AB
1984 - 1988