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Vinit Nijhawan

Managing Director at MassVentures

Cambridge, Massachusetts

Overview

Work Experience

  • Managing Director

    2020 - Current

    MTTC merged into MassVentures. MassVentures, a quasi-public entity was founded in 1978 and is focused on Deep Tech non-dilutive and dilutive funding with an added focus on diverse founders.

  • Interim Executive Director MTTC

    2018 - 2020

    MTTC enables Massachusetts public and private research universities and medical centers to lead the nation in translating basic research to the market, creating jobs and economic development to benefit Americans. Merged with MassVentures.

  • Board Member

    2023

    Suturing tools for endoscopes

  • MBA Lecturer

    2008

    As a Lecturer teach MBA, Engineering and Medicine courses on entrepreneurship, and member of the Faculty Innovation Network of the BuildLab. Have taught entrepreneurship to over 600 students.

  • Managing Director Office of Technology Development

    2010 - 2016

    Launched eight venture-backed spinoffs (who have cumulatively raised over $350M) and generated more licensing royalty income than 34 years cumulative prior. Member of Coulter Oversight Committee at Biomedical Engineering. Member of BU CTSI Internal Advisory Board. Member of the Fraunhofer Alliance. Past member of the Conflict of Interest Committees for BU and BU School of Medicine.

  • Investor and Board Observer

    2023

  • Investor and Board Advisor

    2022

  • Investor and Board Observer

    2022

  • Investor and Board Observer

    2022

  • Investor and Board Observer

    2022

  • Investor and Board Observer

    2021

  • Investor and Board Observer

    2020

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