Eric Dai
Investor at Dimension
San Francisco, California
Overview
Work Experience
Stealth
2025 - Current
Investment Team
2023 - 2024
Investing in founders pushing the frontier of tech and life sciences. Fund 1: $350M Fund 2: $500M
Dimension Capital is a venture capital firm that prefers to invest in various industries.
Investment Team
2022 - 2023
a16z Bio Fund IV $1.5B Vehicle for Early and Growth Stage Bio+Health Startups
Andreessen Horowitz is a stage-agnostic venture capital firm with assets under management across multiple funds.
PhD Student in Bioengineering, Mauck Lab
2016 - 2022
(On Leave, All But Dissertation) Stem Cell Mechanobiology/Engineering with Rob Mauck
Teaching Assistant
2018 - 2021
TA for MSE 496 Senior Design with Vanessa Chan TA for BE 306 Cellular Engineering with Daniel Hammer
Venture Associate
2021 - 2022
Petri/Pillar VC is a new approach for funding formation-stage startups at the intersection of biology and engineering. Created by the leaders behind iconic companies like Twist Bioscience, Ginkgo Bioworks, Beyond Meat, Exact Sciences, and many more.
Pillar VC invests in seed-stage companies, supporting unstoppable founders with capital, connections, coaching, and peer support.
Co-Founder, Co-Managing Director
2021 - 2022
Bio Launch supports venture formation from biotechnologies at the University of Pennsylvania, the Wistar Institute, and CHOP. Merged into Nucleate to form Nucleate Philadelphia.
Program Coordinator at the DOE Office of Technology Transitions
2021 - 2022
Cleantech Commercialization
US Department of Energy is a government administration that regulates energy policy, research, and development.
Biotech Correspondent
2021 - 2022
Reported on leading startups in mRNA engineering, nucleic acid delivery and more
Research Assistant
2011 - 2012
Particle Physics