Dave Messina
Founder of Cofactor Genomics
San Diego, California
Overview
Work Experience
General Partner
2024 - Current
I lead the Future of Health Fund at Pioneer, investing in and supporting top founders top startups that will make a massive impact on how long we live, how well we live, and how we experience healthcare.
Senior Venture Partner and co-lead Bio+Health Fund
2022 - 2024
Senior Venture Partner
2019 - 2024
Venture Partner
2017 - 2019
Member of Selection Committee
2016
Investing at the Nexus of Food and Health.
Advisor
2017
Geneoscopy develops a screening methodology to noninvasively diagnose colorectal cancer using biomarkers in stool samples.
Raised $112,900,000.00 from Cultivation Capital, BioGenerator, Innovatus Capital Partners, Morningside Venture Investments, Lightchain, LabCorp and NT Investments.
Y Combinator (S15)
2015
Cofactor Genomics was part of the Summer 2015 batch of Y Combinator.
Startup School Advisor
2017 - 2017
I advised 18 startup companies in Y Combinator's first Startup School program.
Founder and Chief Operating Officer
2016 - 2024
I co-founded Cofactor, leading it to successful Medicare reimbursement. I led our 30+ site national clinical trial. Cofactor uses RNA and machine learning to enable doctors to choose the best treatment for their patients.
Advisor
2020 - 2024
Venture capital fund helping entrepreneurs launch exponential organizations generally with an impact or sustainability element.
Advisor
2018 - 2022
Member of the Board of Trustees
2013 - 2019
Lending my expertise to one of the premier college preparatory boarding schools in the United States. Ranked the #1 Private School in Missouri.
Chief Operating Officer
2015 - 2016
Director of Analysis
2012 - 2015
Leads Cofactor’s computational research & development program, executing our software and infrastructure strategy Co-director of Operations, planning and coordinating production and personnel Oversees bioinformatics analyses for all clients, from small academic labs to large pharma companies
Core Developer
2010 - 2015
BioPerl is a set of software libraries which keeps biologists from having to spend so much time writing new code in order to answer their research questions. BioPerl still has a pretty steep learning curve for most people, so I'm trying to help make it easier to use.
Developer
2005 - 2010
BioPerl is a set of software libraries which keeps biologists from having to spend so much time writing new code in order to answer their research questions. BioPerl still has a pretty steep learning curve for most people, so I'm trying to help make it easier to use.