Samantha Friedman

Angel Investor

2019 - Current

I invest in startups and venture funds with at least one underrepresented founder. I am industry agnostic, and write small checks (generally at the pre-seed stage) for companies in the US and Canada. My portfolio includes Goodable (1st check in), Synkrino Biotherapeutics, Azalio, and Salley; Backstage Capital LLC and RareBreed Ventures, as well as Portfolia and Pioneer Fund.

Venture Partner

2019

Investing Member - FirstStep Fund

2019

Consultant

2017

Consulting on Raman spectroscopy and SERS applications and technology, and providing web development services.

President, Co-Founder, Head of Technology

2017 - 2021

FairFunders is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to provide female and underrepresented entrepreneurs the voice and power to access capital in a safe and inclusive environment. - Learned HTML, CSS, PHP, MySQL, and JavaScript beginning in Nov. 2017. - Applied the above skills to build a Web-based platform for founders to communicate and share their pitch decks with investors, and to update and maintain our website. - Incorporated Google Analytics into the website and platform to analyze user behavior and use custom campaigns to track marketing success. - Helped plan and participated in bi-weekly online events connecting founders and investors. - Contributed to funding and revenue strategy and to developing partnerships.

Co-Founder, Chief Scientific Officer

2014 - 2017

- Designed experiments and wrote laboratory protocols, developed analytical methods for clinical samples, and documented and presented experimental results. - Performed initial data processing and machine learning for proof of concept work on a set of 90 clinical samples. - Pre-processed and formatted data for algorithm development on 350 clinical samples. - Communicated the conceptual scientific background and analysis methods in provisional and utility patents, and in an FDA Pre-Submission (Q-Sub) package. - Participated in an FDA Pre-Submission Meeting. - Oversaw the design and construction of a custom spectroscopic instrument by a contractor. - Set up a new laboratory, and contributed to the evaluation and purchase of new scientific instrumentation and equipment. - Oversaw the laboratory chemical and equipment inventory. - Participated in Y Combinator (Winter 2016 batch). - Helped raise venture capital and procure clinical samples for proof-of-concept studies.

Graduate Student

2006 - 2015

Raman and Surface-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy of G-Quadruplexes

Graduate Teaching Assistant

2006 - 2010

Organic Chemistry I - "Bonding" General Chemistry II - lab instruction Advanced General Chemistry II - with Dr. Jerome Haky and Dr. Donna Chamely-Wiik, development of writing-intensive lab course and lab instruction

Assistant Engineer

2004 - 2006

Technical drawings in AutoCAD, instrument lists and diagrams.

Lab Assistant, Organic Chemistry I

2001 - 2002

Instructed and supervised students in their use of gas chromatographs, IR spectrometers, and FT‐IR spectrometers, and performed GC‐MS on students’ samples. Troubleshot equipment.

Chemistry Assistant, Chemistry Prep Room

2001 - 2002

Prepared solutions and standardized solutions for teaching labs; checked and calibrated equipment and glassware for teaching labs.