Ron Shigeta
Startup Person at in process
Berkeley, California
Overview
Work Experience
Founder
2019 - Current
Startup Person
2020
Contract Specialist
2020
Helping Huge and tiny companies scale their product for market with a new generation of innovative SynBio manufacturing @SolarBioProcessingLLC
Solar Biotech provides comprehensive sustainable and scalable biomanufacturing solutions.
Raised $5,800,000.00 from Ingredion Incorporated.
Investment Advisor
2019
Scientist in Residence
2018
Babel Ventures is an early stage VC fund backing driven, impact-oriented entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley.
Visiting Lecturer
2021 - 2023
Investor, Alix Venture Capital - Innovative Healthcare, SynBio and Sequencing Platforms
2020 - 2022
Alix Ventures: Driving Patient Impact - Supporting Early Stage Startups Engineering Biology to Drive Radical Advances in Human Health
Product Development Consultant @ Clara Foods
2019 - 2020
Chief Science Officer
2017 - 2019
Wild Earth is a technology startup that specializes in developing protein pet foods.
Raised $49,200,000.00 from Triangle Tweener Fund, Bitburger Ventures, Valhalla Ventures, Thomas Mastrobuoni, At One Ventures, Big Idea Ventures, Gaingels and Lionheart Ventures.
Chief Science Officer, Co-Founder IndieBio
2014 - 2017
I Co-founded IndieBio, the world’s first Synthetic Biology accelerator devoted to funding and building startups dedicated solving humanity’s most pressing problems through biology. Funded more than 70 iconic biotech companies to a market cap of > $500M in 3 years.