Sharon Kedar

Host at Innovate and Elevate

Washington DC-Baltimore Area

Overview

Sharon Kedar is a Co-Founder and Partner at Northpond Ventures, a multi-billion dollar VC firm, with a portfolio of over 60 startups and board seats in leading academia institutions such as Harvard, MIT, and Stanford. She has invested in notable companies like Vizgen, Emulate, Hawthorne Effect, Ultivue, and Encodia, showcasing her expertise in innovation management and business development within sectors like BioTech and Washington, D.C. With an MBA from Harvard Business School and a BA from Rice University, Sharon has held key roles such as CFO at Sands Capital Management, Consultant at McKinsey & Company, and currently serves on the board of Emulate, Inc. Her ability to drive successful investments in Series A and Seed stage companies, coupled with her leadership in academia partnerships, highlights her exceptional track record in venture capital and innovation development.

Work Experience

Northpond Ventures

Co-Founder, Partner
2018 - Current
Northpond Ventures is a multi-billion dollar science-driven venture capital firm based in Cambridge, MA; San Francisco, CA; and Bethesda, MD. The firm is deeply engaged in the academic ecosystem, having founded: ✅ The Laboratory for Bioengineering Research and Innovation at Harvard’s Wyss Institute, the Institute’s first research and innovation alliance ✅ The MIT-Northpond Program, created to advance innovation in engineering and life sciences ✅ The Northpond Laboratories – Program for Research and Innovation at Stanford Medicine, which seeks to accelerate the pace of translation between scientific research to clinical and commercial applications through the vehicle of entrepreneurship Northpond Ventures has led or co-led 60+ financings over the past several years, and sits on the board of the vast majority of these businesses. Learn more at npv.vc.

Northpond Ventures is a private equity and venture capital that focuses on science-driven projects in life sciences and technology.

npv.vc

SEEN Hair Care

Advisor
2019

SEEN provides beauty, cosmetic products and financial support to laser clinics for the treatment of children.

Raised $9,000,000.00 from Sator Grove Holdings, Mitchell P. Rales, Rox Anderson, George R. Mrkonic and Feroz Dewan.

helloseen.com

Sands Capital Management

CFO
2002 - 2017
Led key areas over 15 year tenure (Analyst/PM for tech sector, Western States client relations, CFO), during which the firm grew assets over 30x from $1.5 billion to $50 billion.

Sands Capital is an investment manager that seeks to invest in technology and life sciences businesses from Series A through public listing.

sandscapital.com