Maureen Klewicki
Partner at Cedars
Los Angeles County, California
Overview
Work Experience
Partner
2022 - Current
Cedars-Sinai Health Ventures is a venture capital firm.
Principal
2020 - 2022
Senior Associate
2018 - 2020
LA's first seed fund, backing entrepreneurs developing cutting-edge frontier technologies to address the world's most pressing problems.
Program Director, Techstars Healthcare
2017 - 2018
Program Manager, Techstars Healthcare
2016 - 2017
Techstars is an accelerator that provides pre-seed investment and mentoring for various early stage startups.
Raised $108,919,999.00 from SVB Financial Group and Foundry Group.
Operations
2015 - 2016
Business & legal operations for a VC-backed startup
IP Transactions Associate
2014 - 2015
- Drafted various agreements to support transfer of Intellectual Property, whether in an M&A context, joint venture, or general licensing. Primarily focused on license agreements, engineering services agreements, research and development agreements, clinical trial agreements, purchase agreements, and consulting agreements. - Focused on technology-based startups, including spin-offs from academic research institutions. This included formation, organization and financing. Drafted and negotiated license agreements, collaboration agreements and a range of other agreements to assist in growth of emerging companies. - Served as pro-bono counsel for start-up accelerator in DTLA. This included formation, non-profit organization, conflict of interest with start-ups, and counsel to individual start-up companies. -Served as pro-bono counsel to university based legal-tech research institution. -Co-organizer of Legal-Tech hackathon Code the Deal LA
Nixon Peabody LLP is a global law firm.
Summer Associate
2013 - 2013
Nixon Peabody LLP is a global law firm.
Judicial Extern
2012 - 2012
PR Intern
2010 - 2010
Staff Writer
2008 - 2009