Ryan Bethencourt

Experience

Halpin Neurosciences

Founder

Wild Earth

Founder

Berkeley Biolabs

Founder

Sustainable Food Ventures

Founder

Pfizer

Employee

Cephalon

Employee

Quintiles

Employee

Parexel

Employee

ICON

Employee

Merck KGaA

Employee

IndieBio

Employee

Exit

Pioneers.io

Advisor

SyntechBio Network

Advisor

Bla Bla Foods

Advisor

vitro labs

Advisor

Memphis Meats

Advisor

Founder

Berkeley Biolabs, Halpin Neurosciences, Sustainable Food Ventures, Wild Earth

Employee

Pfizer, IndieBio, Merck KGaA, Quintiles, Parexel, ICON, Cephalon

Advisor

Pioneers.io, SyntechBio Network, Memphis Meats, vitro labs, Bla Bla Foods

Education

About

Achievements

I focus on use and invest in biology as a technology to solve some of the world’s most intractable problems including the future of food, medicine, biological computation, consumer biotech and environmental challenges.

Some of the more notable and impactful companies I have invested in and backed include Future of Food (Ava Labs, New Wave Foods, Memphis Meats, Clara Foods, Geltor, Miraculex, Finless Foods, The NotCo, SugarLogix, Nipa Brew, California Dreamin’), Medicine (Orphidia, SyntheX, QIDNI labs, Neuroqore, Ravata, Venomyx Therapeutics, Scaled Biolabs, GEA enzymes, Mendel.ai, Bioaesthetics, Proteorex,Prellis Biologics, DNAlite, QuantumCyte, Gene and Cell Technologies, Forever labs, CUE), Biological Computation (Koniku, Catalog Technologies), Consumer Biotech (NERD Skincare, Amino labs, Mycoworks, Animal Biome, Vitagene), Environmental (Pembient, Bioinspira, UBA Biologics)

Describe the most impressive thing you've done.

Skills

Clinical Development Clinical Trials Biotechnology Medicine Human Genetics Molecular Biology Deal Sourcing Deal Execution Fundraising Food & Beverage Market Plant-Based Nutrition

Locations

San Francisco Oakland Los Angeles Earth Durham Raleigh

Q&A

What's the most useful business-related book you've ever read?

Finite and Infinite Games by James Carse

What's your favorite non-business book?

Altered Carbon

If money were not an issue, what would you be doing right now?

Building a regenerative medicine startup that would be able to rebuild every part of the human body

What words of advice would you give your younger self?

Give yourself permission

What's the most creative thing you've ever done?

Starting IndieBio

Ryan Bethencourt

CEO WildEarth, Partner Sustainable Food Ventures (alt protein rolling fund ), Layer One Ventures (web3 rolling fund) and Partner BABEL Ventures (consumer biotech) , fmr Co-founder, Program Director & VC @indiebio