hyasynth

Creating the cannabinoid industry.

  • Stage Product In Development
  • Industry Biotechnology
  • Location Montreal, QC, Canada
  • Currency CAD
  • Founded May 2014
  • Incorporation Type C-corp
  • Website hyasynthbio.com

Company Summary

Visit our angel list page for an up to date listing of team members and fundraising information: https://angel.co/company/hyasynth-bio

Team

  • CEO, Co-founder

    Kevin has a experience in team management, past startups and biochemistry.
    - Speaker at Hackers Of Planet Earth (HOPE), South by South West (SXSW), SynbioFutures
    - Award-winning judge and participant at the International Genetically Engineered Machine (iGEM) competition
    - Past companies include: Bricobio, Synbiota, Helios Makerspace

  • COO, Co-founder

    Zach has a background in synthetic biology, biochemistry and biophysics.
    - Industry-Academic work at the National Institute for Nanotechnology
    - Metabolic engineering of algae and cyanobacteria

  • CTO, Co-founder

    Shoham has a background in molecular biology and chemistry.
    - Genome engineering, analytical quantification at University of Rochester and Concordia University.
    - Production of plastics through yeast

  • CSO, Co-founder

    Alex is a biochemical engineer. He has worked on projects in engineering of microorganisms for terpene production, which are the precursors for cannabinoid production.
    - GC-MS and metabolic engineering in multiple organisms
    - Protein engineering for fragrance production

  • Business Dev. Officer

Advisors

  • Bill Liao
    Founder, Coder Dojo European Investment Partner, SOSventures
    Unconfirmed
    Distinguished Researcher, Autodesk Inc. Co-chair Bioinformatics and Biotech, Singularity University
  • Ethan Perlstein, PhD
    Unconfirmed
    Vince Martin, PhD
    Unconfirmed

Previous Investors

  • SOSV
    Unconfirmed
    Ethan Perlstein, PhD
    Unconfirmed
    Andrew Hessel
    Unconfirmed

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