Joshua Elkington
General Partner at Axial
Joshua Elkington
General Partner at Axial
San Francisco Bay Area
Overview
Work Experience
Founder and General Partner
2019 - Current
Helping great inventors build their own business. We've partnered and invested in companies like Appia Bio, Seranova Bio, Concerto Biosciences, Enable Medicine, BigHat Biosciences, Tilda Research, Think Bioscience, among others.
Scientific Advisor
2017 - 2019
Helping out friends figure out where AI can impact life sciences.
Analyst
2016 - 2019
Learning venture capital.
Startup Helper
2016 - 2019
Got the courage to start investing and helping startups myself. Doing deals I couldn't push through on Monday meetings. GenEdit, Culture Biosciences, Unnatural Products, Inflammatix, Orca Bio, Serotiny, Plexium, Coral Genomics, Tierra, Juvena, among others. Also pitched in the help a few VC firms get off the ground. Projects with TreeStar. And did some investing in AI, crypto, energy, but don't have the time right now to track anything but life sciences. All investing of mine is now solely through Axial.
Consultant
2016 - 2016
Through MGV did a lot of analysis work mainly helping with initial market research and customer discovery to get Pairwise Plants started.
Scientific Consulting
2015 - 2016
Through Danaher Labs, Molecular Devices, and Beckman Coulter, helped out with technology licensing, product development, and market analysis. Fun time traveling down to Santa Clara during grad school.
Education
Undergraduate
2011 - 2015
Graduate training
2015 - 2016