David Steinberg
Founder at Enlight Biosciences LLC
Profile
David Steinberg is a General Partner at Longwood Fund.
He is currently Chairman of the Board of Longwood portfolio companies Pyxis Oncology and Be Biopharma, where he also served as founding Chief Executive Officer, and serves on the board of Longwood portfolio companies Lassen Therapeutics and Rectify Pharmaceuticals.
Previously, he was co-founder and Chief Innovation Officer of biotech venture creation firm PureTech Health (NASDAQ: PRTC), focusing on launching and investing in innovative biotech companies.
David was the co-founder and CEO of several biotech companies, including Longwood-founded Pyxis Oncology and Be Biopharma, Vor Biopharma (NASDAQ: VOR), Vedanta Biosciences, Calix, and was co-founder of Restorbio.
He previously worked in biopharma strategy consulting at Boston Consulting Group and Vertex Partners, and R&D at P&G Pharmaceuticals.
David received his MBA in strategy and finance from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and holds a BA in biology from Cornell University.
David Steinberg active positions
Companies | Position | Start |
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Follica, Inc.
Follica, Inc. Other Consumer ServicesConsumer Services Follica, Inc. develops therapies for hair follicle disorders. The firm provides an out-patient therapy coupled with an at-home system for the treatment of androgenetic alopecia (hair loss) and medical device development fields to develop and commercialize its product platform. The company was founded by Rox R. Anderson, George Cotsarelis, Vera Price, Daphne Zohar, David Steinberg, and Bernat Olle in 2006 and is headquartered in Boston, MA. | Corporate Officer/Principal | 2005-12-31 |
Enlight Biosciences LLC
Enlight Biosciences LLC Pharmaceuticals: MajorHealth Technology Enlight Biosciences LLC develops research tools for drug discovery and development. It offers patient-centric platforms that may impact all aspects of the connected health ecosystem from patient engagement and experience, to patient-focused research and development. The company was founded by Raju S. Kucherlapati, David Steinberg, Rakesh Kumar Jain, H. Robert Horbitz, and Sanjiv Sam Gambhir in July 2008 and is headquartered in Boston, MA. | Founder | 2011-04-24 |
Commense, Inc.
Commense, Inc. Miscellaneous Commercial ServicesCommercial Services Part of PureTech Health Plc, Commense, Inc. provides biotechnical research services. The private company is based in Boston, MA. Edward J. Stewart has been the CEO of the company since 2018. | Director/Board Member | - |
Longwood Fund Management LLC
Longwood Fund Management LLC Investment ManagersFinance Longwood Fund Management LLC (Longwood Fund Management) is a venture capital firm founded in 2010 by Christoph H. Westphal, Michelle Dipp and Richard H. Aldrich. The firm is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts. | Private Equity Investor | 2018-08-31 |
Be Biopharma, Inc.
Be Biopharma, Inc. Miscellaneous Commercial ServicesCommercial Services Be Biopharma, Inc. develops engineered B cells as a new category of cellular medicines. The company was founded by David Steinberg, Aleks Radovic-Moreno and Lea Hachigian and is headquartered in Cambridge, MA. | Founder | - |
Rectify Pharmaceuticals LLC
Rectify Pharmaceuticals LLC Miscellaneous Commercial ServicesCommercial Services Rectify Pharmaceuticals LLC is a biotech company that is developing positive functional modulators (PFMs) to address the underlying cause of serious ABC transporter-mediated diseases. The company is based in Cambridge, MA and was founded by Jonathan Moore. The company's team includes Xiaobing Li as Chief Development Officer, Robert Hughes as Executive Vice President of Drug Discovery and Preclinical Development, and Leif-Ann Tuohey as Senior Vice President and Head of Business Development. The company has received $100 million in Series A financing from Atlas Venture, Omega Funds, Forbion, and Longwood Fund. The CEO is Rajesh Devraj, who is also a venture partner at Atlas Venture. | Director/Board Member | - |
Photys Therapeutics, Inc.
Photys Therapeutics, Inc. Medical SpecialtiesHealth Technology Photys Therapeutics, Inc. is a company based in Cambridge, MA that was founded by Longwood Fund and Dr. Amit Choudhary of Brigham and Women's Hospital and the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard. The company is advancing phosphorylation inducing chimeric small molecules (PHICs), a proprietary new class of bifunctional medicines that direct and repair protein phosphorylation to treat a range of diseases including cancer, immune, metabolic, and rare diseases. PHICs enhance the pairing of specific kinases with disease target proteins, inducing precise phosphorylation at native and/or non-native sites, modulating key functions including activation, stabilization, trafficking, localization, phospho-antigen presentation, inactivation, degradation, and interactions of proteins. The company's approach unlocks diverse classes of targets, developing a new class of medicines for precise control of protein function. The company was founded by Amit Choudhary, David Steinberg, Edward Holson, Lizzie Ngo. David Steinberg has been the CEO since incorporation. | Founder | - |
Carbon Biosciences, Inc.
Carbon Biosciences, Inc. Medical/Nursing ServicesHealth Services Carbon Biosciences, Inc. is a biotech company that is based in Boston, MA. The company is focused on expanding the therapeutic potential of gene therapy through its proprietary platform which leverages novel parvoviruses that have been pressure tested by nature to target specific tissues and carry a larger cargo with minimal neutralizing immunity and the potential to re-dose. The company is working to expand the gene therapy toolbox for the treatment of the world's most devastating and difficult to treat diseases. Carbon was founded by Longwood Fund and gene therapy pioneers, John F. Engelhardt, Ph.D., and Robert M. Kotin, Ph.D. | Director/Board Member | - |
Former positions of David Steinberg
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PYXIS ONCOLOGY, INC. | Chief Executive Officer | 2019-12-10 |
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Training of David Steinberg
Cornell University | Undergraduate Degree |
The University of Chicago Booth School of Business | Masters Business Admin |
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Linked companies
Listed companies | 5 |
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PROCTER & GAMBLE COMPANY | Consumer Non-Durables |
ENDRA LIFE SCIENCES INC. | Health Technology |
PURETECH HEALTH PLC | Health Technology |
VOR BIOPHARMA INC. | Health Technology |
PYXIS ONCOLOGY, INC. | Health Technology |
Private companies | 17 |
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Satori Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
Satori Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Pharmaceuticals: MajorHealth Technology Satori Pharmaceuticals, Inc. developed therapeutics for alzheimer's disease. The firm's drug candidates selectively modulated gamma secretase, the enzyme generating the neurotoxic peptides that form amyloid beta plaques the signature of this debilitated disease. The company was founded by Mark A. Findeis and Dennis J. Selkoe in 2005 and was headquartered in Cambridge, MA. | Health Technology |
IMRSV, Inc.
IMRSV, Inc. Packaged SoftwareTechnology Services IMRSV, Inc. provided a platform for audience measurement. The company was founded in 2009 by Jill Miller, Jason Sosa and Akshay Chavan and was headquartered in New York, NY. | Technology Services |
The Boston Consulting Group, Inc.
The Boston Consulting Group, Inc. Miscellaneous Commercial ServicesCommercial Services The Boston Consulting Group, Inc. engages in the provision of management consulting services. It specializes in automotive and mobility; biopharmaceuticals; consumer products; education; oil and gas; power and utilities; engineered products and infrastructure; financial institutions; and health care payers, providers, and services. It offers big data and advanced analytics; change management; client learning and enablement; and corporate development and financial services. The company was founded by Bruce Doolin Henderson in 1963 and is headquartered in Boston, MA. | Commercial Services |
Vertex Partners
Vertex Partners Miscellaneous Commercial ServicesCommercial Services Part of Fair Isaac Corp., Vertex Partners is a consulting firm based in Boston, MA. The private company provides consulting services in various fields such as strategy/IT and recruiting. Vertex Partners combines the knowledge of many companies to create new ventures and supports initiatives related to innovation and new business creation. Luce, a recruitment firm, is a subsidiary of Vertex Partners. Accuchain, a company that modernizes HR recruitment software, is also a part of Vertex Partners. The company was founded by Paul J. Bascobert. Vertex Partners was acquired by Braun Consulting, Inc. on May 11, 1999. | Commercial Services |
Puretech Health LLC
Puretech Health LLC Investment ManagersFinance Puretech Health LLC (PureTech Ventures) is a venture capital subsidiary of PureTech Health Plc founded in 2000 by Daphne Zohar, Robert Langer and Ben Shapiro. The firm is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts. | Finance |
Follica, Inc.
Follica, Inc. Other Consumer ServicesConsumer Services Follica, Inc. develops therapies for hair follicle disorders. The firm provides an out-patient therapy coupled with an at-home system for the treatment of androgenetic alopecia (hair loss) and medical device development fields to develop and commercialize its product platform. The company was founded by Rox R. Anderson, George Cotsarelis, Vera Price, Daphne Zohar, David Steinberg, and Bernat Olle in 2006 and is headquartered in Boston, MA. | Consumer Services |
Enlight Biosciences LLC
Enlight Biosciences LLC Pharmaceuticals: MajorHealth Technology Enlight Biosciences LLC develops research tools for drug discovery and development. It offers patient-centric platforms that may impact all aspects of the connected health ecosystem from patient engagement and experience, to patient-focused research and development. The company was founded by Raju S. Kucherlapati, David Steinberg, Rakesh Kumar Jain, H. Robert Horbitz, and Sanjiv Sam Gambhir in July 2008 and is headquartered in Boston, MA. | Health Technology |
Longwood Fund Management LLC
Longwood Fund Management LLC Investment ManagersFinance Longwood Fund Management LLC (Longwood Fund Management) is a venture capital firm founded in 2010 by Christoph H. Westphal, Michelle Dipp and Richard H. Aldrich. The firm is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts. | Finance |
Vedanta Biosciences, Inc.
Vedanta Biosciences, Inc. BiotechnologyHealth Technology Vedanta Biosciences, Inc. develops microbial therapies that address the human immune system. It engages in the development of a new class of drugs that work by modulating the human microbiome, with an initial emphasis in autoimmune and inflammatory diseases. The company was founded by Ruslan Medzhitov, Alexander Rudensky, Brett Finlay, Kenya Honda, Dan Littman, Bernat Olle and David Steinberg in 2010 and is headquartered in Cambridge, MA. | Health Technology |
Entrega, Inc.
Entrega, Inc. Pharmaceuticals: MajorHealth Technology Entrega, Inc. develops oral drug delivery technologies. The firm’s platform enables novel applications in a variety of fields, such as disease management and tracking in the burgeoning mobile health arena. Its proprietary technology seeks to solve the oral delivery problem with an engineering solution that protects the payload and delivers biological molecules, drug substances and nanoparticles. The company was founded by Samir Mitragotri in 2010 and is headquartered in Boston, MA. | Health Technology |
Knode, Inc.
Knode, Inc. Miscellaneous Commercial ServicesCommercial Services Knode, Inc. develops and delivers web-based life science solutions for accessing experts and their content. It offers solutions for project team formation, post-merger integration, collaborations, business development, and decision-making applications. The firm provides services to pharmaceutical companies, academic institutions and researchers. The company was founded in 2011 and is headquartered in Boston, MA. | Commercial Services |
Commense, Inc.
Commense, Inc. Miscellaneous Commercial ServicesCommercial Services Part of PureTech Health Plc, Commense, Inc. provides biotechnical research services. The private company is based in Boston, MA. Edward J. Stewart has been the CEO of the company since 2018. | Commercial Services |
resTORbio, Inc.
resTORbio, Inc. BiotechnologyHealth Technology resTORbio, Inc. is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company. The firm engages in the development and commercialization of medicines for aging-related diseases and conditions. It offers an immunotherapy under the TORC1 program. The company was founded by Chen Schor and Joan Mannick on July 5, 2016 and is headquartered in Boston, MA. | Health Technology |
Be Biopharma, Inc.
Be Biopharma, Inc. Miscellaneous Commercial ServicesCommercial Services Be Biopharma, Inc. develops engineered B cells as a new category of cellular medicines. The company was founded by David Steinberg, Aleks Radovic-Moreno and Lea Hachigian and is headquartered in Cambridge, MA. | Commercial Services |
Rectify Pharmaceuticals LLC
Rectify Pharmaceuticals LLC Miscellaneous Commercial ServicesCommercial Services Rectify Pharmaceuticals LLC is a biotech company that is developing positive functional modulators (PFMs) to address the underlying cause of serious ABC transporter-mediated diseases. The company is based in Cambridge, MA and was founded by Jonathan Moore. The company's team includes Xiaobing Li as Chief Development Officer, Robert Hughes as Executive Vice President of Drug Discovery and Preclinical Development, and Leif-Ann Tuohey as Senior Vice President and Head of Business Development. The company has received $100 million in Series A financing from Atlas Venture, Omega Funds, Forbion, and Longwood Fund. The CEO is Rajesh Devraj, who is also a venture partner at Atlas Venture. | Commercial Services |
Carbon Biosciences, Inc.
Carbon Biosciences, Inc. Medical/Nursing ServicesHealth Services Carbon Biosciences, Inc. is a biotech company that is based in Boston, MA. The company is focused on expanding the therapeutic potential of gene therapy through its proprietary platform which leverages novel parvoviruses that have been pressure tested by nature to target specific tissues and carry a larger cargo with minimal neutralizing immunity and the potential to re-dose. The company is working to expand the gene therapy toolbox for the treatment of the world's most devastating and difficult to treat diseases. Carbon was founded by Longwood Fund and gene therapy pioneers, John F. Engelhardt, Ph.D., and Robert M. Kotin, Ph.D. | Health Services |
Photys Therapeutics, Inc.
Photys Therapeutics, Inc. Medical SpecialtiesHealth Technology Photys Therapeutics, Inc. is a company based in Cambridge, MA that was founded by Longwood Fund and Dr. Amit Choudhary of Brigham and Women's Hospital and the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard. The company is advancing phosphorylation inducing chimeric small molecules (PHICs), a proprietary new class of bifunctional medicines that direct and repair protein phosphorylation to treat a range of diseases including cancer, immune, metabolic, and rare diseases. PHICs enhance the pairing of specific kinases with disease target proteins, inducing precise phosphorylation at native and/or non-native sites, modulating key functions including activation, stabilization, trafficking, localization, phospho-antigen presentation, inactivation, degradation, and interactions of proteins. The company's approach unlocks diverse classes of targets, developing a new class of medicines for precise control of protein function. The company was founded by Amit Choudhary, David Steinberg, Edward Holson, Lizzie Ngo. David Steinberg has been the CEO since incorporation. | Health Technology |
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