Lindy Morris Fishburne

Managing Partner

2016 - Current

Breakout Ventures is the home for creative bioscience entrepreneurs. We invest in early stage companies harnessing the power of cells to build solutions in human health and sustainability. Our team has spent the last decade supporting science-driven companies moving with urgency. We partner with bold founders throughout the entire life cycle, from seed to scale. We believe cells are the engine of the next decade as the tools, technologies and, most importantly, talent from across industries are brought to bear on biology and chemistry in surprising ways. Breakout Ventures, building the future powered by science.

Board Member

2018

Executive Director, Breakout Labs

2008 - 2016

We built Breakout Labs in 2011 with the goal of funding deep science companies at a stage and time when we believed philanthropic capital was necessary to support the achievement of technical milestones and to coalesce a start-up ecosystem in this space. We funded 50 amazing founding teams creating an incredible community of scientists, entrepreneurs and investors committed to using science as their superpower to make science fiction a reality. Our portfolio has raised over $1B in follow-on funding, grown leather without the cow, developed therapeutics to alter the course of Alzheimer’s, transformed carbon dioxide emissions into useful products, and so much more.

Principal

2004 - 2008

VP Client Dev

2001 - 2004