Sharon Kedar

Co-Founder, Partner
2018
Northpond Ventures is a multi-billion dollar science-driven venture capital firm based in Cambridge, MA; San Francisco, CA; and Bethesda, MD. The firm is deeply engaged in the academic ecosystem, having founded: ✅ The Laboratory for Bioengineering Research and Innovation at Harvard’s Wyss Institute, the Institute’s first research and innovation alliance ✅ The MIT-Northpond Program, created to advance innovation in engineering and life sciences ✅ The Northpond Laboratories – Program for Research and Innovation at Stanford Medicine, which seeks to accelerate the pace of translation between scientific research to clinical and commercial applications through the vehicle of entrepreneurship Northpond Ventures has led or co-led 60+ financings over the past several years, and sits on the board of the vast majority of these businesses. Learn more at npv.vc.

2019

2002 - 2017

CFO
2002 - 2017
Led key areas over 15 year tenure (Analyst/PM for tech sector, Western States client relations, CFO), during which the firm grew assets over 30x from $1.5 billion to $50 billion.

1999 - 2002

1995 - 1997

Human health is pretty cool | Founder, funder, multi-billion $ science VC | Entrepreneur | Innovator | Academia partner: Harvard, Stanford, MIT | Believer in the art of possible 🇺🇸