Lily Kim
General Partner at Awaken Capital
San Diego, California
Overview
Work Experience
General Partner, Chief Scientific Officer
2023 - Current
Awaken Capital invests in tech-enabled platforms and the visionary entrepreneurs behind them at the early stages of their development.
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.
The Hertz Foundation is a organization providing fellowships to applied physical, biological and engineering sciences, PhD students.
Mentor
2022 - 2022
a collaborative venture program enabling the formation of biotechnology companies addressing climate & sustainability challenges
Partner, Chief Scientist
2015 - 2022
Investing in entrepreneurs, inventors and scientists who aim to benefit humanity by rewriting the operating systems of life.
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.