Phase Two Ventures

Phase Two Ventures’ Will Alaynick held office hours at UC San Diego’s Design & Innovation Building last week. We thank Nora Safa, PhD., Shane Moise, and Lisel Gorell-Getz, M.A. for their support and the UC San Diego Office of Innovation and Commercialization for the opportunity to give back to our entrepreneurial roots.

Bizzy day for sure…. Just wrapped up recording an insightful Bizzy Scientist episode with our San Diego-based Phase Two Ventures through which we discussed Jose Morachis and Will Alaynick’s journey and long-term partnership from PhD students at UC San Diego to becoming serial entrepreneurs building companies such as NanoCellect Biomedical, Inc., ScholarNexus LLC, Defined Bioscience, and beyond, to their current endeavor as #investors in early-stage biotech #startups, and opportunities ahead for the listeners. Can’t wait to share it with you. Until then, be Scientific, keep Bizzy! See you at Sullivan Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation to nerd into patents and technology transactions, today at 5:15 ?? Photo credit: Lisel Gorell-Getz, M.A. Sponsors: UC San Diego Office of Innovation and Commercialization and Sullivan Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation

Phase Two Ventures' is proud to have Will Alaynick serve as a grant reviewer for Curebound as they fund the amazing collaborative San Diego #Cancer research community at UC San Diego, Salk Institute for Biological Studies, Scripps Research, Sanford Burnham Prebys, UC San Diego Health - Moores Cancer Center, Rady Children's Hospital-San Diego, and La Jolla Institute for Immunology https://lnkd.in/gT8GihsB

Phase Two's Will Alaynick attended this great BIO x AI x SD gathering of academic and community leaders in #AI, and #Biology, and #Entrepreneurship hosted at UC San Diego and BIO x AI x SD organized by Nick Edwards, PhD, Arjun Bansal, and Neal Bloom

On this day of absolutely no corporate-related holiday at all, I want to say how proud I am of the team at Defined Bioscience. When we opened our doors in a small one-room lab/office combo, we had no idea if anyone was going to care about what we had to offer. Sure, you do your market analysis, see that you have a clear advantage, and get to work. But does that mean someone is ACTUALLY going to take interest? Fast-forward to now: we have almost a dozen products for cell culture, papers citing our reagents in their research, state/federal/private funding, and a dedicated team of scientists and entrepreneurs to support an ever-growing base of customers and partners. We've gone from the occasional email inquiry three years ago to product shipments every day this week. And it couldn't have happened without everyone here that answers emails, processes orders, makes and tests products, troubleshoots, and gets the boxes out of the door. Not everyone has had the same experience we have, and every startup road is bumpy. I'm proud of the group of people that make Defined a real team, and not just another company, to make what we've achieved possible.

Glad to have Will Alaynick join last night's panel discussion at HomeLab? at UC San Diego with the Swiss American Chamber of Commerce Southern California.

Art meets science! Henrietta Lacks and Rosalind Franklin. Colored epoxy, microtiter plates mounted on 3 ft x 4 ft plexiglass. Created by our Advisory member Michael Weiner.

We look forward to represent Phase Two at the VCFamilia black-tie celebration of Latinos in venture capital with support from Pivotal Ventures and J.P. Morgan. This dinner will take place during #LATechWeek on ?? October 14th, just as we wrap up #HispanicHeritageMonth.

Innovation Day by Connect at Petco Park was full of exciting startups. Our portfolio startup, Lynx Biosciences, Inc. was represented by Chorom Pak at JLabs panel. Thanks Mike Krenn and team for having us!