Kouki Harasaki
Managing Partner at Bioluminescence Ventures
San Francisco, California
Overview
Work Experience
Managing Director
2025 - Current
Founding / Managing / General Partner
2022 - 2025
Bioluminescence Ventures is a leading biotechnology venture capital firm that invests in the future of medicine.
Board Observer
2024 - 2025
Board Director
2024 - 2025
Finance Committee Member
Cerevance is a biotechnology company that develops novel therapeutics for neurological diseases.
Raised $189,500,000.00 from MQB Partners, Lightstone Ventures, Bioluminescence Ventures, Gates Frontier Fund, LifeRock Ventures, Google Ventures, Double Point Ventures, Agent Capital, Foresite Capital and Gates Frontier Fund.
Board Director
2023 - 2025
Nominating & Corporate Governance Committee Member Transaction Committee Member
Board Director
2023 - 2025
SURGE Therapeutics seeks to dramatically improve cancer patient survival by disrupting cancer immunotherapy is deployed.
Raised $58,000,000.00 from Camford Capital, Piedmont Capital, Green D Ventures, Intuitive Ventures, Alumni Ventures, Cancer Research Institute, Castor Ventures, Pitango VC, Khosla Ventures and DHVC.
Board Director
2023 - 2025
Compensation Committee Member
Ensomaa is a genomic medicine company that develops on one-time in vivo treatments for immuno-oncology and other therapeutic applications.
Raised $205,000,000.00 from Delos Capital, Bioluminescence Ventures, Kite Pharma, SymBiosis LLC, Catalio Capital Management, Solasta Ventures, Qatar Investment Authority, Mirae Asset, 5AM Ventures and Alexandria Venture Investments.
Board Director
2023 - 2025
Compensation Committee Member Audit Committee Member
Nido Biosciences is a clinical-stage company that develops precision medicines for severe neurological diseases.
Raised $109,000,000.00 from Bioluminescence Ventures.
Board Observer
2022 - 2025
Valo Health is a technology company focused on utilizing large scale data and AI-driven computation to discover and develop therapeutics.
Raised $460,000,000.00 from HBM Healthcare Investments.
Managing Director / Biotechnology Lead Investor
2020 - 2022
M12 is the venture capital arm of Microsoft that invests in early-stage companies.