Partner
Leo Cui, PhD
General Partner, FoundersX Ventures
- Firm
- FoundersX Ventures
- Title
- General Partner
- Role
- General partner
- Location
- Cambridge, MA
- Known as
- Investor
Record updated 17 September 2026
About
Leo is a biotech expert with extensive research experience in CRISPR and Microfluidics. He was a Postdoc fellow in Professor Feng Zhang's Lab at MIT Broad Institute. He is a core inventor of 4 patents and has authored 8 peer-reviewed scientific publications. His work has led to two spin-off companies which are developing early-stage cancer diagnostics and a high-throughput drug discovery platform. Leo is passionate about the converging power of bioscience and bioengineering. He co-founded Nucleate, a student-run entrepreneurship club at Harvard, and grew the program to 6 other Biohubs in the US. Leo holds a Ph.D. in Bioengineering from Harvard University. He is based in our office in Cambridge, MA.Select Investments: 1910 Genetics, Omniscope, Zafrens, Colabra, Palamedrix.
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