Founder-led Biotech on Tour

NEW YORK CITY

New York, NY

Join Pillar VC and co-hosts for the NYC stop of the Founder-led Biotech Tour. This event is a curated evening of networking with founders, PhD students and leaders of the founder-led biotech movement.

Sponsors

New York City Co-Hosts

Rayees
Rahman

NYC

Founded in 2021 and headquartered in New York City. We are a drug discovery company developing a new generation of therapeutics that embrace the complexity of disease. Currently available approaches for creating drugs work on the principal of finding one drug-one protein ‘magic bullets’. By designing multi-specific drugs, we are able to create therapeutics that are more efficacious and safer than existing medicines.

NYC

Bogdan
Knezevic

Kaleidoscope is building an operating system for R&D. With Kaleidoscope, biotech teams can aggregate, distill, visualize, and track the key data that powers their most critical decisions — significantly slashing operating costs, speeding up time to market, and iteratively improving decision-making. Kaleidoscope enables team leaders and executives to see live data summaries that critically inform their operations.

NYC

Yash
Shevde

Ursa Bio is an aerospace medicine company solving health issues in astronauts during prolonged spaceflight and off-world living.

Elizabeth
Wood

NYC

CAR-T is for more than just oncology. Using the full potential of gene editing, we are creating a therapeutic platform for cell based therapies that are not just disease modifying: they are curative and definitive.

NYC

Demetri
Maxim

Nephrogen is a biotech company in New York developing curative gene therapies for kidney diseases. We’re starting with polycystic kidney disease (PKD), an incurable and often deadly disease affecting 600,000 Americans. 

NYC

Mat
Legut

OverT Bio is a preclinical cell therapy company pioneering high-throughput, data-driven functional genomics to design and develop effective and safe cellular therapies for solid tumors. We have built two differentiated platforms that address the limitations of existing cell therapies: the OverTarget gain-of-function platform to discover genes to make superior T cells, and the OverTCR single-cell platform for safe and broadly applicable receptors and targets.

Mimoun Cadosch Delmar

NYC

Matterworks is using the power of AI to fundamentally change the impact of biological measurements and observations.


Michael Retchin

NYC

Scale Medicine helps drug developers find the information they need to make better R&D, clinical, and commercialization decisions.

Virtual Events

Virtual events are open registration. You’ll need to register for each event separately.

DAY 1

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM ET — networking

Virtual speed networking

Rapid 2-minute chats with other attendees, fostering quick yet impactful connections from wherever you are. Register

DAY 2

2:00 PM - 3:00 PM ET — Networking

Virtual co-founder match

Dive into curated conversations on the Hopin platform. Discover your next startup collaborator. Register

DAY 3

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM ET — Networking

Virtual speed networking

Rapid 2-minute chats with other attendees, fostering quick yet impactful connections from wherever you are. Register

Want to get involved?

If you have a concept for a virtual event that aligns with our mission, we want to hear from you! Whether it’s a workshop, panel discussion, or a unique interactive session, share your vision with us, and let’s bring it to life together.

Email madelyn@pillar.vc

other tour stops

In-person events for the Founder-led Bio Tour will be intimate gatherings, hosting a capacity of 150-200 attendees. Interested participants are encouraged to apply as soon as possible.

san francisco

new york

london

boston