Avak Kahvejian
General Partner at Flagship Pioneering
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Overview
Work Experience
General Partner
2020 - Current
Partner
2011 - 2020
Flagship Pioneering is a venture capital firm that invests in life sciences and healthcare companies.
Founding CEO and Board Member
2024
Founding CEO and Board Member
2021
Chairman of the Board
2021
Founding CEO
2021 - 2023
Chairman of the Board
2020
Founding CEO
2020 - 2023
Board Member
2017
Founding CEO
2017 - 2020
Cellarity is a therapeutics company that uses genomic technologies, data science, and AI to develop a new generation of therapies.
Raised $294,000,000.00 from Kyowa Kirin, Flagship Pioneering and Hanwha Impact Partners.
Chairman of the Board
2021
Board Member
2017
Founding CEO
2017 - 2020
Ring Therapeutics is a gene therapy company focused on discovering and developing programmable genetic medicines.
Raised $253,500,000.00 from Altitude Life Science Ventures, Flagship Pioneering, UPMC Enterprises, CJ Investment, Partners Investment, T. Rowe Price, Alexandria Venture Investments, Invus and Kyowa Kirin.
Board Member
2017 - 2025
Founding CEO
2017 - 2020
Sail Biomedicines is a flagship pioneering company that is developing tomorrow's medicines today using life's language.
Board Member
2018 - 2021
Founding Co-CEO
2017 - 2021
Board Member
2017 - 2021
Chief Innovation Officer
2019 - 2020
Founding President & CEO
2017 - 2019