Dave Messina
Founder of Cofactor Genomics
San Diego, California
Overview
Work Experience
Founder and Chief Operating Officer
2016 - Current
I oversee Operations and Production at Cofactor, where we develop and produce RNA-based Molecular Diagnostics and Discovery products.
Senior Venture Partner and co-lead Bio+Health Fund
2022
Senior Venture Partner
2019
Venture Partner
2017 - 2019
Advisor
2020
Venture capital fund helping entrepreneurs launch exponential organizations generally with an impact or sustainability element.
Member of Selection Committee
2016
Investing at the Nexus of Food and Health.
Advisor
2017
Geneoscopy develops a screening methodology to noninvasively diagnose colorectal cancer using biomarkers in stool samples.
Raised $112,900,000.00 from Cultivation Capital, BioGenerator, Innovatus Capital Partners, Morningside Venture Investments, Lightchain, LabCorp and NT Investments.
Advisor
2018
Member of the Board of Trustees
2013 - 2019
Lending my expertise to one of the premier college preparatory boarding schools in the United States. Ranked the #1 Private School in Missouri.
Startup School Advisor
2017 - 2017
I advised 18 startup companies in Y Combinator's first Startup School program.
Chief Operating Officer
2015 - 2016
Director of Analysis
2012 - 2015
Leads Cofactor’s computational research & development program, executing our software and infrastructure strategy Co-director of Operations, planning and coordinating production and personnel Oversees bioinformatics analyses for all clients, from small academic labs to large pharma companies
Core Developer
2010 - 2015
BioPerl is a set of software libraries which keeps biologists from having to spend so much time writing new code in order to answer their research questions. BioPerl still has a pretty steep learning curve for most people, so I'm trying to help make it easier to use.
Developer
2005 - 2010
BioPerl is a set of software libraries which keeps biologists from having to spend so much time writing new code in order to answer their research questions. BioPerl still has a pretty steep learning curve for most people, so I'm trying to help make it easier to use.