Welcome to the BioTools Innovator 2021 Capstone Event & Finals Competition. The event begins with presentations from senior leadership at Thermo Fisher Scientific followed by panel discussions with the 10 best-in-class startups in this year’s cohort. The day concludes with the Finals competition and crowning of the $200,000 Grand Prize Winner, selected by the live audience vote.
AGENDA
2:00 PM PT / 5 PM ET: Welcome & Keynote (Innovation at Thermo Fisher Scientific)
- Kathryn Zavala, Managing Director, BioTools Innovator
- Shaun Kirkpatrick, President, Biotechnologies, Research Corporation Technologies
- Amy Butler, President Biosciences Division, Thermo Fisher Scientific
- Lalit Dhir, VP, Strategy, Portfolio & Business Development, Thermo Fisher Scientific
2:20 PM PT / 5:20 PM ET: Showcase Panel I
- Moderator: Matt Baker, Senior Director, Strategy and Business Development, Thermo Fisher Scientific
- Benjamin Yellen, CEO, Celldom
- Sridhar Iyengar, CEO, Elemental Machines
- Josh Yang, Co-Counder & CEO, Glyphic Bio
- Jered Haun, CEO, Kino Discovery
- Mirko Stange, CEO, lino Biotech
3:00 PM PT / 6:00 PM ET: Showcase Panel II
- Moderator: Bryan Poltilove, Managing Director, BroadOak Capital Partners
- James West, CEO, Clara Biotech
- Bernhard Suter, Managing Director, Stellate DNA
- Dong Wang, Co-Founder & COO, Enrich Therapeutics
- Martis Cowles, Chief Business Officer, Epicypher
- David Marash, Co-Founder & CEO, Machine Bio
3:50 PM PT / 6:50 PM ET: Finals Competition
Emcee: Paul Grand, Founder & CEO, MedTech Innovator
Finalists:
- Celldom – developing a technology that enables the paired analysis of phenotypic and genomic heterogeneity in large populations of cells.
- Clara Biotech – developing an exosome isolation platform enabling next generation biotechnology.
- EpiCypher – developing a multiomic assay that quantitatively maps DNA methylation and chromatin elements for drug discovery.
- Glyphic Biotechnologies – developing a single-molecule, massively parallel, de novo protein sequencing platform.
- Machine Bio – developing the Transmembrane Protein Synthesis Platform, a technology that can produce pure protein in hours.
Guest Judges:
- Bill Snider, Partner, BroadOak Capital Partners
- Bryan Poltilove, Managing Director, BroadOak Capital Partners
- Chad Souvignier, Vice President, Research Corporation Technologies
- Shaun Kirkpatrick, President, Biotechnologies, Research Corporation Technologies
Download the Program Book with 1-page profiles on each of the presenting companies here.
Best Video Competition
Watch the following 1 minute videos from each of our 10 Accelerator companies. These were also the basis for the $5,000 Best Video Award competition.
