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William Krut
Investment Partner at Reinforced Ventures
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Overview
William Krut is an Investment Partner at Reinforced Ventures, with a background in venture capital and portfolio support. He has extensive experience in due diligence and financial modeling, with a focus on investing in narrative breaks in sectors such as Security, Robotics, BioTech, and AI.
Highlights of William's career include serving as a Board Member at Nucleate and as a Senior Due Diligence Partner at Spellbound Partners, showcasing his expertise in evaluating and supporting start-ups.
Work Experience
Investment Partner
2020 - Current
Napkin & Preseed investments with a focus on overlooked classes of molecules, algorithms, and hardware. Top 50 Emerging Funds 2022.
Reinforced Ventures invests in overlooked areas of deep tech (robotics, biotech, etc) with founders who have irreplaceable domain expertise
Board Observer
2023
GigaMune focus on T cell therapeutics for solid tumors.
Raised $300,000.00 from Boost VC, Sequoia Capital and Bioverge.
Board Member
2023
Pittsburgh chapter board advisor and mentor.
a collaborative venture program enabling the formation of biotechnology companies addressing climate & sustainability challenges
Senior Due Diligence Partner
2020 - 2022
Technical due diligence for private equity acquisitions (People, Product, Process, Security, Code Review).
Researcher/ Scientist/ Data Scientist
2017 - 2020
Clinical Research Developer- Allegheny Health Network (2020) Data Scientist- Lumeris (2017- 2020) I build predictive models and a deep learning platform for feature engineering, producing risk scores, and predicting patient outcomes for multiple hospital systems.
CTO/ CoFounder
2014 - 2017
Papirys automates encryption and access rights using blockchain technology.
Founder
2012 - 2014
RNA therapeutics company for anti-aging and skin treatments.