Jernej Godec
Private Equity Investor at Atlas Venture Advisors, Inc.
Profile
Jernej Godec is a Principal at Atlas Venture where he focuses on finding innovative technologies and building impactful therapeutics companies to address significant medical gaps.
Prior to joining Atlas, he was a senior associate at Apple Tree Partners in New York City.
In that role, he worked on investments across therapeutics areas and companies with a focus on early stage technologies and company formation.
He was intimately involved in building Elstar Therapeutics, an ATP-founded company developing next-generation multifunctional immunomodulatory antibodies for cancer, where he also served as a board observer.
Jernej completed his doctorate in immunology at Harvard University.
He was jointly mentored by Arlene Sharpe and Nicholas Haining, where he studied how co-inhibitory receptors and transcriptional programs orchestrate differentiation of cytotoxic T lymphocytes and published in top peer-reviewed journals.
While in graduate school, Jernej co-founded Mifcor, a company developing new therapies for cardiorenal disease.
Concurrently, he completed the Flagship VentureLabs fellows program and continued working with Flagship during the last year of his doctorate.
Jernej received his B.A.
with honors in molecular and cell biology at the University of California at Berkeley where his research focused on innate immunity and bacterial pathogenesis.
During his time at Cal, he was an All-American student-athlete in swimming and competed in two Olympic Games for his home country of Slovenia.
Outside of work he tries to keep up a swimming routine to offset his culinary indulgences.
He also enjoys exploring the world through many adventures with his wife and two sons.
Jernej Godec active positions
Companies | Position | Start |
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Atlas Venture Advisors, Inc.
Atlas Venture Advisors, Inc. Investment ManagersFinance Atlas Venture Advisors Inc (Atlas Venture Advisors) is a venture capital firm founded in 1980 by Christopher Julian Spray. The firm is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts. | Private Equity Investor | 2021-11-30 |
Former positions of Jernej Godec
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MIFCOR, Inc.
MIFCOR, Inc. BiotechnologyHealth Technology MIFCOR, Inc. develops biologic therapeutics for protecting tissue. The American company was founded by Jernej Godec. | Founder | 2017-03-31 |
Apple Tree venture Managemnet Llc//vc
Apple Tree venture Managemnet Llc//vc Investment ManagersFinance Apple Tree venture Managemnet LLC (Apple Tree Partners) is a venture capital firm founded by Seth Harrison in 1999. The firm is headquartered in New York with an additional offices in London, San Francisco and Cambridge. | Private Equity Analyst | - |
Training of Jernej Godec
Harvard University | Doctorate Degree |
University of California, Berkeley | Undergraduate Degree |
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Atlas Venture Advisors, Inc.
Atlas Venture Advisors, Inc. Investment ManagersFinance Atlas Venture Advisors Inc (Atlas Venture Advisors) is a venture capital firm founded in 1980 by Christopher Julian Spray. The firm is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts. | Finance |
Apple Tree venture Managemnet Llc//vc
Apple Tree venture Managemnet Llc//vc Investment ManagersFinance Apple Tree venture Managemnet LLC (Apple Tree Partners) is a venture capital firm founded by Seth Harrison in 1999. The firm is headquartered in New York with an additional offices in London, San Francisco and Cambridge. | Finance |
MIFCOR, Inc.
MIFCOR, Inc. BiotechnologyHealth Technology MIFCOR, Inc. develops biologic therapeutics for protecting tissue. The American company was founded by Jernej Godec. | Health Technology |
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