Poorya Hosseini
Partner at Camford Capital
New York, New York
Overview
Work Experience
Partner
2021 - Current
- Early-stage investments in life sciences and healthcare startups [focus on Seed / Series A] - Leading an initiative for incubation of pioneering ventures with next-gen entrepreneurs - Stealth RNA Therapeutics Platform (Founding CEO) - Carbon Biosciences (Board Observer)
Camford Capital is a venture capital firm that invests in Enterprise, Consumer, FinTech, and Healthcare companies.
Senior Associate
2017 - 2021
During my tenure, I worked as part of a team of entrepreneurial scientists to conceive, create, resource, and develop the next generation of Flagship’s ventures and helped train the next generation of scientists and venture builders.
Flagship Pioneering is a venture capital firm that invests in life sciences and healthcare companies.
Founding Team
2019 - 2021
Flagship Labs 72, Inc. (FL72) is an early-stage biotechnology company that is developing a new category of immune therapeutics (Stealth). I led the origination and launch of the company in addition to leading Operations and R&D during my tenure at Flagship.
Founding Team
2018 - 2021
Generate Biomedicines is a new kind of therapeutics company—existing at the intersection of machine learning, biological engineering, and medicine—pioneering Generative Biology™ to create breakthrough medicines.
Founding Team
2017 - 2021
The company's broad platform harnesses single-cell technologies and machine learning to digitize and quantify cellular behaviors, unravel the network dynamics that govern those behaviors, and generate medicines that can direct them.
Cellarity is a therapeutics company that uses genomic technologies, data science, and AI to develop a new generation of therapies.
Raised $294,000,000.00 from Kyowa Kirin, Flagship Pioneering and Hanwha Impact Partners.
Entrepreneurial Fellow
2017 - 2017
Flagship Pioneering is a venture capital firm that invests in life sciences and healthcare companies.
PHD Candidate
2012 - 2017
I developed advanced imaging and microscopy techniques for biomedical applications. On the application side, I focused on anemic disorders and sickle cell disease in particular.
Graduate Research Assistant
2008 - 2010