2x founder
Jeffrey Dietrich
Founder and CEO at Rarebird, Inc.
Experience
Career
2020Rarebird, Inc.
FounderFounder and CEO · San Leandro, California, United States · 2020 – Present
2011Lygos
Co-founderCo-founder, Chief Technology Officer · Berkeley, CA · 2011 – 2019
2005UC Berkeley
Graduate student (PhD) · 2005 – 2011
- 2005
Joint BioEnergy Institute
Graduate Student · 2005 – 2011
Bio
Jeffrey Dietrich received his Ph.D. in BioEngineering from UC-Berkeley working in Jay Keasling’s lab to develop new biomanufacturing technologies. Jeffrey then co-founded and was CTO at Lygos (YC W16), which raised over $40MM in equity financing and $10MM in Federal awards to commercialize industrial biochemicals. He has also served on advisory boards for Department of Energy- and National Science Foundation-backed institutions and is an inventor on 17 patents or patent applications.