Joe Betts-lacroix
CEO at Retro Biosciences
San Francisco, California
Overview
Work Experience
"CEO" i.e. ultimately responsible for the achieving our mission
2021 - Current
Retro Biosciences focus on cellular reprogramming, autophagy and plasma-inspired therapeutics.
Raised $180,000,000.00 from Sam Altman.
Board Observer
2017
BioAge Labs is a clinical-stage biotechnology company that develops therapeutics to treat obesity and metabolic diseases.
Raised $293,900,000.00 from OrbiMed, OUP (Osage University Partners), RA Capital Management, Lilly Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz, Sands Capital Ventures, Cormorant Asset Management, Pivotal bioVenture Partners, Longitude Capital and Amgen Ventures.
Advisory Board Member
2012
Assist in product strategy, funding and organizational development.
Executive Director
2012
Health Extension is a not-for-profit community working to promote investment in the biomedical research to prevent age-related diseases. Its flagship monthly salon series is attended by Silicon Valley scientists, investors, entrepreneurs, designers, developers.
Advisor
2020 - 2021
Recursion Pharmaceuticals is a biotech company that develops a drug discovery platform and pipeline with machine learning.
Raised $865,376,000.00 from NVIDIA, Laurion Capital Management, Invus, Baillie Gifford, Kinnevik, Mubadala Capital Ventures and Platinum Asset Management.
Entrepreneur In Residence
2020 - 2021
Playground is an early-stage deep tech venture capital firm backing technical and scientific founders
CTO
2013 - 2020
[acquired by Recursion Pharmaceutics] Vium is accelerating medical advancement by bringing 21st century technology into living systems research.
Vium is a biotechnology company that develops digital biomarkers to transform preclinical research and animal welfare.
Raised $53,940,004.00 from Lux Capital, Founders Fund, Future Shape, Dolby Family Ventures and DCVC.
Part-time Partner
2017 - 2019
IP Advisor
2009 - 2019
Advising on Intellectual property matters for this company which manages a medium-sized portfolio of patents.
Zetta Research is an intellectual property company that involves and provides incentives to the authors of the patent.
Mentor & Lecturer
2009 - 2017
Lecture on intellectual property and idea research at Founder Institute sessions in Paris, Munich, Berlin, NYC, DC, San Diego, Seattle, San Francisco, Istanbul and Palo Alto, as well as mentor and support startup CEOs building meaningful companies.
Education
AB, Magna cum Laude
1986 - 1990
SM
1990 - 1992
Research Fellow
1988 - 1988