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Ron Shigeta

Startup Person at in process

Berkeley, California

Overview 

Ron Shigeta is currently serving as a Mentor/Advisor for first-in-class startups in the bio, food, and health sectors at iaccelerate.tech in Berkeley, California. With a background that includes founding iAccelerate, serving as Chief Science Officer at Wild Earth Inc and IndieBio, Ron has extensive experience in early-stage investment, executive visibility, coaching, and venture financing within the biotechnology industry.

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.

  • 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.

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