Synbiota Inc.
Co-Founder & CEO | 2013 - 2018
Synbiota Inc. pioneered consumer Synthetic Biology by radically lowering barrier-to-entry, and cost-of-failure for genetic engineering. Our success in this space has spawned a global movement in accessible genetic engineering.
Synbiota paired a web-based DNA development, collaboration, and data management platform with a simple, standardized genetic-engineering kit. This technology enabled anyone to successfully bio-produce valuable products like pigments, scents, living sensors, and medicine, without a Ph.D, or million dollar lab.
Synbiota Inc. achievements include:
Enabled DIY Bio communities and startups around the globe to do real genetic engineering.
Winner: SXSW Interactive Accelerator, CIX top 20, CTA@Boston, Hacking Health.
Growing team from 2 to 16 employees across labs and offices in Toronto, Montreal, Edmonton, and London UK.
Successful IndieGoGo crowdfund.
Shipped 2 software and 4 biological products.
#Sciencehack distributed initiative successfully bio-produced anti-cancer therapeutic.
Enabled MIT Media Lab to offer first hands-on genetic engineering "Design Across Scales" classes to non-biologists.
M&A with Genomikon Inc.
Raised > $2mm.
Link: Synbiota Inc. Press page
Kameraflage Inc.
Founder, CEO & CTO | 2007 - 2010
Kameraflage Inc. developed and manufactured an early commercial Augmented Reality display technology that works by embedding invisible content (nIR) in advertising posters. Invisible content was revealed to a viewer by looking at a Kameraflage poster through the viewfinder of any digital camera equipped device. No software, or network needed.
Licensed by: Activision, Diageo, AKQA
Patent #8,531,308
Awarded a Market Readiness Program (BMEP) grant from MaRS Discovery District; the managing body of the Ontario Ministry of Innovation and Research, Canada.
Video: tech demo