Peretz Partensky
Founder of ImmuneBridge
Peretz Partensky
Founder of ImmuneBridge
Oakland, California
Overview
Work Experience
Co-founder and CEO
2020 - Current
Developing cell therapies for immune systems in need. Building a bridge to a world where immune cellular therapies are ubiquitously accessible and are not cellularly limited.
Venture Partner
2017
Working with the YC Alumni Community to invest in YC Companies. Deep expertise in healthcare and life sciences.
VP Product and Data
2018 - 2019
Collaborated with leading healthcare payers in developing programs and incentives for health systems to transition to value based care reimbursement models. Led data science team in developing referral algorithms to optimize for patient access, outcome and cost efficiency. Developed referral management and patient scheduling systems that steer patients towards higher value providers. Oversaw integration with a variety of EHR systems to streamline solutions into provider workflow.
Co-founder, Chief Data Scientist
2015 - 2018
Restaurant Cheetah is the easiest, fastest, and most affordable way for restaurants and wholesale foodservice buyers to order supplies. Raised $67M to date. I led product data pipeline, predictive analytics, customer satisfaction, revenue growth strategy, data team recruiting. (Left to pursue healthcare and biotech direction, after birth of my twins.)
Co-founder, Board Member, Head of Product
2011 - 2017
Sourcery is a YCombinator backed, B2B commerce and payments platform that connects buyers and suppliers online to facilitate ordering, digital invoice management, bill pay and spend analytics. Raised $11M. Acquired. I wore many hats: Head of Product Development, Head of Engineering, COO, Data Wrangler, Process Optimizer, Executive Management, Recruiting.
Co-founder and Resident
2007 - 2016
Langton Labs is a science and art collective and community oriented interactive space. Profiled in WSJ: http://on.wsj.com/LangtonLabs-in-WSJ
Synergist
2010 - 2011
Contractor at Communications and Humanitarian Development NGO. Projects included maintaining wireless mesh network in the city of Jalalabad that provided internet to over 50,000 people, including regional university, hospitals, and schools. Lived “Outside the Wire” and wore local garb. Travelled across the country (Kabul, Herat, Mazar-i-Sharif, Panjshir, etc.) dressed as and accompanied by locals. Had CAC card access to US Military Bases for support. Interfaced with local and regional government. Coached regional basketball team to a national tournament. Interview in Wired: http://bit.ly/Peretz-Wired Published photos: http://bit.ly/BizInsider-Peretz-photos Real time Reports: http://bit.ly/JalalaGood
Visiting Researcher
2008 - 2008
National Science Foundation International Fellow in the summer of 2008 with the charge of stimulating research collaboration with China. Based at the Center for Theoretical Biology at Peking University. I gave talks at various science institutions in Beijing, including the National Institutes of Biological Science.
Physiology Summer Fellow
2006 - 2006
Physiology summer course organized by Ron Vale and Tim Mitchison. Researched microtubule growth using single molecule microscopy w/Marileen Dogterom (AMOL) RNAi phenotypes of C. elegans development with Tony Hyman (MPI, Dresden), and membrane dynamics of osteoblasts with Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz (NIH). Contributed seminal hatching video to WormAtlas: http://bit.ly/CelegansHatching
Architect Penguin
2000 - 2001
Public relations, marketing and operations for grant awarding non-profit startup. Interviewed for ”Open Source Gets Credit From LinuxFund.org”, Linux Today, July 2000 Managed booths at industry trade-shows such as Comdex, CES, LinuxWorld, and USENIX. Designed community driven dynamic website for crowd sourcing grant allocation Managed remote team of Russian programers.
Education
PhD
2004 - 2010
Winter 2013
2013 - 2013
MPhil
2003 - 2004
BA
1999 - 2003
dropout
1996 - 1998