Synbiota Inc.

Co-Founder & CEO | 2013 - 2018

Synbiota Inc. pioneered consumer Synthetic Biology by radically lowering barrier-to-entry, and cost-of-failure for genetic engineering. Our success in this space has spawned a global movement in accessible genetic engineering.

Synbiota paired a web-based DNA development, collaboration, and data management platform with a simple, standardized genetic-engineering kit. This technology enabled anyone to successfully bio-produce valuable products like pigments, scents, living sensors, and medicine, without a Ph.D, or million dollar lab.

Synbiota Inc. achievements include:

Enabled DIY Bio communities and startups around the globe to do real genetic engineering.
Winner: SXSW Interactive Accelerator, CIX top 20, CTA@Boston, Hacking Health.
Growing team from 2 to 16 employees across labs and offices in Toronto, Montreal, Edmonton, and London UK.
Successful IndieGoGo crowdfund.
Shipped 2 software and 4 biological products.
#Sciencehack distributed initiative successfully bio-produced anti-cancer therapeutic.
Enabled MIT Media Lab to offer first hands-on genetic engineering "Design Across Scales" classes to non-biologists.
M&A with Genomikon Inc.
Raised > $2mm.

Link: Synbiota Inc. Press page

Kameraflage Inc.

Founder, CEO & CTO | 2007 - 2010

Kameraflage Inc. developed and manufactured an early commercial Augmented Reality display technology that represents seminal IP in the “local dimming” space for displays. Kameraflage technology works by embedding invisible content (nIR) in OOH advertising posters. Invisible content was revealed to a viewer by looking at a Kameraflage poster through the viewfinder of any digital camera equipped device. No software, or network needed.

Licensed by: Activision, Diageo, AKQA

Patent #8,531,308

Awarded a Market Readiness Program (BMEP) grant from MaRS Discovery District; the managing body of the Ontario Ministry of Innovation and Research, Canada.

Video: tech demo