Richard Yu

Experience

Career

• 

  Abalone Bio

  Co-founder

  Co-founder and CEO · Emeryville, California, United States · 2018 – Present

  2018
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  Mission Bay Capital

  Advisor · 2017 – 2018

  2017
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  Mission Bay Capital

  Principal · 2013 – 2016

  2013
• N

  Next Interactions

  Co-founder

  COO and co-founder · 2017 – 2018

  2017
• N

  Next Interactions

  Co-founder

  Co-founder · 2015 – 2016

  2015
• N

  Next Interactions, Inc

  Co-founder

  Co-founder · 2015 – 2016

  2015
• M

  MBC Biolabs (formerly qb3@953)

  Scientific and Operations Director, QB3@953 incubator · San Francisco · 2013 – 2016

  2013
• 

  Startx-QB3

  Co-Manager and Operations Director · Palo Alto, CA · 2014 – 2016

  2014
• R

  Radiant Genomics

  Scientist · Emeryville, CA · 2013

  2013
• 

  Molecular Sciences Institute

  Investigator · 2008 – 2013

  2008
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  Molecular Sciences Institute

  Senior Research Fellow · 2004 – 2008

  2004
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  Molecular Sciences Institute

  Research Fellow · 2000 – 2004

  2000
• G

  Green Pacific Biologicals, Inc

  Co-founder

  CSO and Co-founder · 2009 – 2013

  2009
• 

  Yale University

  Graduate Student · 1995 – 2000

  1995
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  Lawrence Berkeley National Labs

  Research Associate · 1993 – 1995

  1993

Bio

Rich has been in or around biotech startups since 2008, when co-founded GPB, an algae biofuel startup. He was also Scientific and Operations Director at MBC Biolabs, the leading biotech incubator in SF, and Principal at Mission Bay Capital, a life science VC fund. Prior, he was an investigator at The Molecular Sciences Institute studying how cells process information. PhD (2000) Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, Yale BA (1993) Biophysics and Computer Science (AI and Graphics), UC Berkeley