Shintaro Kaido
Ben Franklin Technology Development Authority at Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Overview
Work Experience
Principal
2024 - Current
Providing advisory services to venture capital funds, venture development organizations (VDO), and early-stage startup companies in deep tech. Fundraising strategies, fractional COO services, and NSF Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) proposal development.
Member, Editorial Board
2024
ISSN: 1949-8241; E-ISSN: 1949-825X Technology & Innovation is a forum for presenting information encompassing the entire field of applied sciences, with a focus on transformative technology and academic innovation. The journal is dedicated to supporting the National Academy of Inventors' mission to support and honor academic inventions and inventors.
Member, Leadership Council
2022
Activate empowers scientists to become scientist entrepreneurs and address global challenges through fully supported 2-year Activate Fellowships. Activate Fellows and their 196 startups have raised over $3.5 billion since 2015 with two exits. 50 nationally and internationally recognized leaders across government, philanthropy, venture capital, corporations and academia help Activate realize its bold mission to reinvent our world through game-changing scientific innovation. (https://www.activate.org/leadership-council)
Activate empowers entrepreneurial scientists and engineers to transform their research into world-changing products and businesses.
Raised $7,880,999.00.
Fellow
2016
Kauffman Fellows is a highly selective global fellowship of 940 venture capital professionals originally founded by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation in 1994. 680 VC firms represent over $329 billion in total value of Fellow-exited companies.
Co-investment VC firm supporting the mission of the Kauffman Fellows
Board Member, Ben Franklin Technology Development Authority
2022 - 2024
Appointed by Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf. The Ben Franklin Technology Development Authority oversees the Commonwealth’s investment each year into regional venture development organizations and venture capital funds to stimulate technology-based economic development in Pennsylvania. Member of the Investment Committee.
Governor of Pennsylvania is the head of the executive branch of Pennsylvania's state government.
Vice Provost for Innovation and Executive Director, Drexel Applied Innovation
2019 - 2024
Drexel’s inaugural Vice Provost for Innovation with a mission to elevate the university’s innovation capacity by re-imagining tech transfer, cultivating industry relationships, increasing external funding and developing differentiated entrepreneurship programs. Led a team of nine professionals and managed a $3.7 million annual operating budget. Formed the Drexel University Innovation External Advisory Board consisting of university trustees, senior leadership and prominent alumni and co-chaired the board with the university president to identify and address the gaps within Drexel’s innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystem. Major initiatives included creating an organizational infrastructure to support collaboration across the university, building critical mass to improve ecosystem sustainability and developing financial resources to sustain the ecosystem.
Managing Director of Venture Commercialization
2014 - 2019
The inaugural managing director responsible for building a platform for entrepreneurs, investors, Drexel academic innovators and the business community to collaborate and move university research from lab to market.
Co-Founder
2014 - 2019
Acquired by DG Technologies in March 2019.
Director, i2E Immersion Accelerator
2011 - 2014
Launched Oklahoma's first startup accelerators in Tulsa and Oklahoma City for i2E, one of two venture development organizations (VDO) recognized by name in the 2015 White House report "A Strategy for American Innovation" for its successful innovation investing model. Accountable for 14 seed and Series A deals as principal. Board observer for portfolio investments. Portfolio companies and funding statistics are available on CrunchBase: http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/i2e-immersion Work Locations: Tulsa and Oklahoma City
i2E is a private not-for-profit corporation that invests in technology-based entrepreneurs and companies.
Member, Board of Directors
2012 - 2013
A New Leaf, Inc. provides individuals with disabilities life skills and marketable job training through horticultural therapy, vocational placement and residential services to increase their independence and individual choices. A New Leaf, Inc. is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization.
Principal
2009 - 2011
International and domestic M&A, JVs and technology transfer. Aggregate deal value > $700 million. Nascent technologies in industrial automation, simulation systems (includes AR/VR), non-destructive test and cyber security.