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Jate Samathivathanachai

Strategic and Operational Finance | M&A and Licensing | Venture Capital

San Francisco Bay Area

Invests in

Stages:

  • Min Investment:

    $5,000.00
  • Max Investment:

    $50,000.00
  • Target Investment:

    $25,000.00

Work Experience

  • Senior Vice President, Finance

    2025

    Mammoth Biosciences is a biotechnology company focused on leveraging its proprietary ultracompact CRISPR systems to develop potential long-term curative therapies for patients with life-threatening and debilitating diseases. Founded by CRISPR pioneer and Nobel laureate Jennifer Doudna and Trevor Martin, Janice Chen, and Lucas Harrington, the company’s ultracompact systems are designed to be more specific and enable in vivo gene editing in difficult to reach tissues utilizing both nuclease applications and new editing modalities beyond double stranded breaks, including base editing, reverse transcriptase editing, and epigenetic editing.

  • Consultant | Advisor, Finance and Business Development

    2024

    Abyssinia develops next-generation immunotherapies, blood & CSF based diagnostics, and vaccine candidates for neurodegenerative diseases through the precision targeting of toxic misfolded protein aggregates. The Company's first antibody is focused on Alzheimer's Disease and uniquely targets oAβ.

  • Investor

    2020

    Life Science Angels (LSA) is a not-for-profit corporation with 130-150 accredited investor members and 12-18 highly qualified fellows. LSA has invested >$60M in over 100 startups in the biopharma, medical device, diagnostics and digital health sectors. Companies seeking funding are encouraged to apply via www.lifescienceangels.com/apply-for-funding. Investments: - Avisi Technologies - Celldom - InnoSIGN - Noctrix Health - Pelvital - Renata Medical - Saccharo - TRIO Pharmaceuticals - VisiCELL Medical

  • Investor

    2020

    Hyphen Capital is a syndicate of accredited angel investors which invests in multi-stage companies started by Asian American and Pacific Islander founders. Investments: - Arc - Baobab Studios - BrewBird - Canopy - Concha Labs - Dang Foods - Elation Health - Hero Bread - Homecourt - Italic - Mascot - Mayvenn - Prime Roots - Pry Financials - Rocket Dollar - SafeBase - Slope - Snapcommerce - Unit21 - Yumi

  • Investor

    2020

    The Berkeley Angel Network (BAN) is a group of angel investors who are alumni, faculty and former faculty of UC Berkeley. Companies seeking funding may refer to the following process document: https://berkeleyangelnetwork.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/BAN-Berkeley-Angel-Network-Application-Process-20150409-GAW.pdf Investments: - Nalu Bio - Noninvasix - Sensorygen

  • Angel Investor

    2012

    Selected Investments: - Blueberry Pediatrics - LB Pharmaceuticals - Neuraptive Therapeutics - Root Applied Science - Sushiritto | Mochiko Mochi Pizza - TauRx Therapeutics - Vanity | Suite26

  • Chief Business and Financial Officer

    2022 - 2025

    Foundery is a venture studio fund focused on investing in first-in-class immunotherapies sourced from premier research universities. Foundery validates and develops early drug concepts to generate advanced development candidate (DC) packages in collaboration with university investigators. NewCos are built around DCs and sold to biopharma partners for downstream clinical development.

  • Vice President, Head of Finance and Corporate Development

    2022 - 2022

    Tranquis is an SR One/Remiges/Vivo backed clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company developing a portfolio of small molecule therapeutics based on its unique approach of reprogramming dysfunctional myeloid immune cells to restore normal cell homeostasis and function.

2019 - 2022

  • Senior Director, Business Development, Licensing and M&A

    2019 - 2022

    Horizon was a global biotechnology company focused on the discovery, development and commercialization of medicines that address critical needs for people impacted by rare, autoimmune and severe inflammatory diseases. Amgen completed its $27.8B acquisition of Horizon in October 2023.

  • Country Head

    2015 - 2019

    Allexcel was the exclusive marketer and master distributor of Red Bull Energy Drink (Asian SKUs) in Malaysia.