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Lily Kim

General Partner at Awaken Capital

San Diego, California

Overview

Work Experience

  • General Partner, Chief Scientific Officer

    2023 - Current

  • Member, Dean's Leadership Council, School of Biological Sciences

    2021

  • Member, Fellowship and Program Council

    2014

  • Director

    2014 - 2018

    Served on the Board of Directors of The Hertz Foundation, whose mission is to build America's capacity for innovation by nurturing remarkable applied scientists and engineers who show the most promise to change the world.

  • Mentor

    2022 - 2022

  • Partner, Chief Scientist

    2015 - 2022

  • Consultant

    2014 - 2015

  • Associate Director of Platform Development

    2012 - 2014

  • Member, Innovation Series Committee

    2012 - 2014

  • Founder

    2009 - 2014

    Founded and led FluidicMEMS, a series of quarterly networking events that ran for 10+ years, reaching several hundred members of the Greater Boston-area microfluidic community, and also attracting national and international attendees. Transitioned leadership to a great new team in 2014. Speakers included CEOs of Diagnostics for All, Daktari Diagnostics, Firefly BioWorks and Harvard and MIT faculty, with guests including founders of RainDance Technologies, Claros Diagnostics, T2 Biosystems, Polychromix, GnuBio, BioTrove, and other start-up companies as well as academics from Harvard, MIT, Boston University, Children’s Hospital, and Massachusetts General Hospital.

  • Consultant

    2010 - 2012

    Strategy consulting with a focus on biomedical commercialization, BioMEMS and microfluidics.

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