Investing Profile

Kiersten Stead

VCInvestor

Managing Partner at DCVC Bio

dcvc.com/bio/core/dr-kiersten...San Francisco, California

Your Intro Paths to Kiersten Stead

Signal uses Gmail to reveal intro paths. Email content is never read.

Sign in with Google →

Find Kiersten Stead on

cb

Current Investing Position

DCVC Bio Managing Partner

Investment Range

$5.0M - $25.0M

Sweet Spot

$15.0M

Investments On Record

19

Kiersten Stead is on these Sector & Stage Rankings

AgTech (Series A)AgTech (Seed)Food and Beverage (Seed)Food and Beverage (Series A)BioTech (Seed)BioTech (Series A)Enterprise (Series A)Consumer Internet (Seed)San Francisco Bay Area DeepTech (Series A)DeepTech (Seed)Consumer Internet (Series A)Enterprise (Seed)

Kiersten Stead's Investments On Record (16)

Company	StageDateRound Size	Total Raised
Latus Bio	Series AMay 2026$43M Series AMay 2024$54M	$97M
Co-investors: Francisco Gimenez (8VC), Sahin Boydas (Angel investor)
Grove Biopharma	Series AApr 2025$30M	$30M
Elo Life Systems	Series AJan 2024$21M	$21M
Totus Medicines	Series BDec 2023$66M	$110M
Co-investors: Jason Pontin (DCVC (Data Collective)), John Hamer (DCVC (Data Collective)), Sarah Cone (Prequel Strategies)
Novome Biotechnologies	Series BSep 2022$44M Series AJan 2020$33M	$82M
Co-investors: Andrew Schwab (5am Ventures), Dan Janney (Alta Partners)
Creyon Bio	Series AMar 2022$40M	$40M
Co-investors: Zavain Dar (Dimension Capital)
Plexium	Series BFeb 2022$100M Series AOct 2019$28M	$170M
Co-investors: Adam Goulburn (Dimension Capital), Tim Kutzkey (The Column Group)
BreezeBio	SeedDec 2018$9M	$18M
Co-investors: Roelof Botha (Sequoia Capital), Nisa Leung (Qiming Venture Partners)

Kiersten Stead's Experience

Board Member Nilo Therapeutics2024 - Present

Board Member Radionetics Oncology2024 - Present

Board Member Latus Bio2024 - Present

Board Member Totus Medicines2024 - Present

Board Member Mycoworks2019 - Present

Managing Partner DCVC Bio2018 - Present

SAB Keystone Symposia on Molecular & Cellular Biology2014 - Present

Board Member Stemson Therapeutics2021 - 2024

Board Member Elo Life Systems2022 - 2024

Board Member Creyon Bio2021 - 2024

Board Member Sabanto2018 - 2024

Board Member Verdant Robotics, Inc.2019 - 2022

Board Member Plexium2018 - 2022

Board Member GenEdit2018 - 2021

Core Evaluation Team, Genomic Applications Partnership Program Genome Canada2013 - 2020

Board Member and Co-Founder Pairwise Plants2017 - 2018

Board Member Combyne Ag2017 - 2018

Board Observer Understory, Inc.2016 - 2018

Board Member PlantResponse Biotech2015 - 2018

Investment Director Monsanto Growth Ventures2013 - 2018

Board Observer Blue River Technology2015 - 2017

Member Board Of Directors VitalFields2015 - 2016

Venture Capital Burrill & Company2011 - 2013

Business Development Associate TEC Edmonton2010 - 2011

Scholar AHFMR ForeFront MBA2009 - 2011

Research Associate University of Alberta2009 - 2010

Post-Doc University of Alberta2007 - 2009

Investors who invest with Kiersten Stead

Francisco Gimenez

DCVC (Data Collective)

Dimension Capital

Founders who looked at Kiersten Stead's profile also looked at these Scouts & Angels

Christopher Priebe