JB

Justin Briggs

Operator, Investor, Board Member & Startup Advisor | Biotech, Deeptech, Ag, Energy, Automation, Advanced Manufacturing

Tulsa, Oklahoma

Work Experience

2023

  • VP Corporate Development

    2024

  • Board Member

    2023 - 2024

    Zafrens is a company developing a massively parallel drug discovery platform.

  • Operating Partner

    2024

  • Partner

    2022 - 2024

    Prime Movers Lab invests in breakthrough scientific startups founded by the world's prime movers – the inventors who transform billions of lives across energy, transportation, infrastructure, manufacturing, human augmentation, and agriculture. PML is actively investing out of Fund 3, an early stage fund, and has $1.2B under management. We offer Prime Movers comprehensive resources and integrated coaching to support the transformation of world-class technical experts into extraordinary executives. Our team has developed in-depth academic scientific research, commercialized novel intellectual property, scaled significant enterprises, and mentored renowned scientists on their entrepreneurial journey.

  • Venture Partner

    2022 - 2022

2023

  • Board Member

    2023

    LyGenesis is a clinical-stage startup pioneering the use of lymph nodes as living bioreactors to transform transplant medicine and expand the field of cell therapy for millions of patients.

  • Board Member

    2023

    Iridia is storing the world of data in physical form using nature's building block, DNA.

  • Board Member

    2023

    Morphoceuticals is developing therapeutics modulating the “bio-electrome” to regrow human limbs, repair injuries, and treat rare congenital diseases and malformations based on the research of Drs. Michael Levin and David Kaplan.

2022 - 2024

  • Venture Partner

    2022 - 2024

    Atento Capital is an early stage venture capital firm and fund of funds based in Tulsa, OK, affiliated with the George Kaiser Family Foundation (GKFF). As VP, supported diligence and post-investment portfolio management and CEO advising in the areas of life sciences, agriculture, materials sciences, and deep tech.

  • Board Member

    2023 - 2024

    Gilgamesh is a clinical-stage company developing safer, more beneficial molecules at the forefront of psychedelic medicine.

2023 - 2024

  • Board Member

    2023 - 2024

2023 - 2024

  • Board Observer

    2023 - 2024

    Dimension inx manufactures the substrates for life for use as tissue therapeutics, including 3D printed bone grafts, soft tissue replacements, and injectable bioscaffolds.

2022 - 2024

  • Board Member

    2022 - 2024