Our Mission is to rewrite the model of what's possible to drive life forward

Technology and biology are coming together to amplify each other in profound ways.

We work on the ground level to galvanize the industry around this fast-growing field and form long-term partnerships with entrepreneurs inventing the future.

We are not just capital allocators, but company builders, scientists, and engineers.

Our philosophy is informed by our experience founding, building, and investing in successful biotech, hardware, and software platforms. We seek to mirror the founders who will define the next generation of the life sciences with native fluency across the continuum of chemistry, biology, software, machine learning, and automation.

Our approach is purpose-built for the sector.

Investing across platforms, software, and tools

Flexibility to invest across stages

Founder-centric partnership model

Fundamental research in science, technology, and markets

Long-term oriented to unlock compounding value of platforms

Global reach

Our team

Adam Goulburn, PhD

Founder & Managing Partner

Adam invests at the intersection of biology, healthcare, technology and data. He is interested in the digitization of healthcare; genomics and coding biology; the microbiome; neuroscience and brain-computer interfaces; next-gen bio-imaging; regenerative medicine; and other areas of applied hard sciences.

Adam was most recently a General Partner at Lux Capital where he founded and incubated a number of companies including Cajal Neuroscience, VNV Bio and Kallyope where he was the founding CEO. Fascinated with the potential of digitization in life sciences and the broader healthcare ecosystem, Adam has invested in companies that span the realms of virtual clinical trials and real world evidence platforms to single particle tracking microscopy drug discovery companies.

Prior to his career in venture, Adam was a Postdoctoral Fellow of Neuroscience at Weill Cornell Medical College, researching regenerative stem cell medicine in association with brain disorders such as schizophrenia and Alzheimer’s disease. Originally from Australia, Adam has dual undergraduate degrees in Business and Science and a PhD from the Australian Stem Cell Centre, where he was a Premier Scholar. He has been published in numerous peer-reviewed, scientific journals. Adam loves to travel the world with his better half Mez, and has been known to wake up at all hours of the night to tune into Aussie Rules football matches.

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Adam Goulburn, PhD

Founder & Managing Partner

Adam Goulburn, PhD

Nan Li

Founder & Managing Partner

Nan invests at the intersection of technology and the life sciences. He is particularly interested in computer vision, AI/ML, NLP, robotics, automation systems and other cutting edge technologies. Most recently, Nan was a Managing Director at Obvious Ventures where he lead the frontier tech practice and invested in numerous companies applying core technologies towards large, unsolved problems. This includes Dexterity, a robotics-powered automation platform; Recursion Pharma (NASDAQ: RXRX), a deep learning approach to cellular phenotyping; SwiftScale Biologics (acq. by Resilience), a biologics manufacturing platform; Planet (NYSE: PL), operating the largest constellation of satellites for Earth imaging; Iterative Scopes, applying computer vision towards GI disease; and Dyno Therapeutics, a gene therapy delivery discovery engine.

Previously, Nan was an investor at Eric Schmidt's Innovation Endeavors. Earlier in his career, Nan was an investor at Bain Capital Ventures, a management consultant at Bain & Company, and a PM at Microsoft.

Nan holds a B.S.E. in Computer Science Engineering from the University of Michigan and taught a course for 5 years at Stanford on applied AI and venture capital. Nan is a first-generation immigrant from China and grew up in Detroit. He enjoys music, culture, puzzles, all Detroit sports, and general nerdom.

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Nan Li

Founder & Managing Partner

Nan Li

Zavain Dar

Founder & Managing Partner

Zavain invests at the intersection and union of cutting-edge biotech and software. Zavain was previously a General Partner at Lux Capital where he led investments in companies including Recursion (NASDAQ: RXRX), which uses automation and deep learning to develop novel therapeutics; Enveda Biosciences, which applies cutting edge machine learning to next generation metabolomics to probe our planet’s dark chemical space for new medicines, Runway, which is putting machine learning tools into the hands of creators; Hugging Face, an open-source company democratizing Natural Language Processing; and Thrive Earlier Detection, an early cancer detection company acquired by Exact Sciences for 2.15 billion in 2020.

Previously Zavain was an investor at Eric Schmidt’s Innovation Endeavors. Prior to VC, Zavain was a founder and computer scientist. At Discovery Engine (acquired by Twitter) he engineered machine learning and AI systems across a proprietary distributed computing framework to build web-scale ranking algorithms.

Zavain holds a BS in symbolic systems and an MS in computer science from Stanford where he was a researcher at the Stanford AI Lab. He has been a Lecturer at Stanford having taught seminars in Cryptocurrencies, Artificial Intelligence and Philosophy, and Venture Capital. Zavain is a first-generation immigrant from Kashmir.

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Zavain Dar

Founder & Managing Partner

Zavain Dar

Simon Barnett

Research Director

Simon has a dual background in life sciences research and investment management. He is responsible for building the human and digital systems powering Dimension’s research engine. His scientific interests include novel biosensors, liquid biopsies, deep learning, and cell programming. Simon is passionate about cancer screening and pediatric rare disease research.

Previously, Simon was the Director of Life Sciences Research at ARK Invest, a global asset manager investing solely in innovative technologies through a variety of public and private portfolio wrappers. In this role, he led an interdisciplinary team to create research content and inform portfolio management activities. Over the past five years, he has published hundreds of newsletters, podcasts, Tweet threads, and research articles about the digitization of the life sciences industry. Simon has appeared on CNBC, TD Ameritrade, Yahoo! Finance, Investor’s Business Daily, and Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News.

Prior to joining ARK, Simon held various positions in preclinical cancer research and in medtech software engineering. Simon holds a B.S. in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering from Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland. He was born and raised in Texas and still misses the dry heat and breakfast tacos. Simon enjoys cooking, music, and college football.

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Simon Barnett

Research Director

Simon Barnett

Eric Dai

Investor

Eric works to identify, partner with, and support the very best founders building the next generation of life science. Eric was most recently an Analyst at a16z Bio+Health, covering companies working across therapeutics, diagnostics, tools, and infrastructure. Prior to his time in the venture ecosystem, Eric demonstrated a strong affinity for life science entrepreneurship, holding roles with incubators such as Petri Bio and organizations like BIOS Community, and organizing campus startup activities through Nucleate.

Eric has a decade-long academic research background in life science through his Bachelor’s studies in Bioengineering at Washington University of St. Louis and PhD studies in Bioengineering at the University of Pennsylvania, from which he is on leave to commit to his career in investing. Similar to all of the founders at Dimension, Eric has an immigrant background – his family relocated in 1987 from Zhengzhou, China to Columbia, Missouri to earn their PhDs in Physics and pursue their American Dream.

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Investor

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Reha Mathur

Analyst

Reha is passionate about advancing human health and is excited to partner with scientists and founders at the cutting edge of biology and technology. Her interests include molecular dynamics, metabolomics, machine learning, and new biological tools.

Reha has 7 years of computational research experience, spanning polymer nano-composites, neural network potentials for molecular dynamics, and quantitative models of mammalian metabolism. She was previously at D.E. Shaw Research improving internal drug discovery tools and developing new deep learning models. She also worked at Enveda Biosciences on machine learning ADME models and with the product team.

Reha received her B.S.E in Chemical and Biological Engineering from Princeton University where she graduated Phi Beta Kappa, a Goldwater Scholar, and received both her department and the engineering school’s top awards. At Princeton, she directed TigerLaunch, one of the world’s largest student-run pitch competitions, and founded the Princeton Biotech Group (350+ members). In her free time, Reha loves reading science fiction, sampling local bakeries and cracking the NYT’s daily crosswords.

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Reha Mathur

Analyst

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Michele Vlcek

Operations Manager

Michele works closely with the General Partners and is responsible for the firm’s internal system management and a variety of operational activities. Most recently Michele was an Executive Operations Manager at Snapdocs, a mortgage technology company that helps real estate participants work together through integration and automation. Notably during her tenure she supported the CEO & Founder, built the executive support function, planned large internal events, and co-founded Women @ Snapdocs to help develop careers and foster support among women employees.

Previously, Michele was at Obvious Ventures, supporting the Co-Founder and Managing Director. Michele holds a B.S. in Economics and a minor in Sociology from Arizona State University. Michele grew up in Northeast PA, enjoys traveling, learning about new cultures and perfecting her baking skills.

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Operations Manager

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Amy Zhen

Sr. Executive Assistant

Amy is an administrative professional with over a decade of experience providing right-hand support to senior executives and coordinating complex events.

Prior to joining Dimension, Amy was a People Operations and Programs Manager at CircleUp Network and a Senior Executive Assistant at Core Innovation Capital – both roles allowing her to flex her passion for service and logistics while cultivating an inviting work culture.

A Bay Area native, Amy holds a B.A. in Sociology from San Francisco State University. During her spare weekends, if she’s not hanging out with her two fluffy rescue bunnies, you might find her at San Francisco’s City Hall, overseeing special events ranging from intimate weddings to corporate galas. A huge fan of her hometown, Amy embraces everything it has to offer - specifically charming neighborhoods with delicious food trends on the rise.

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Sr. Executive Assistant

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Amy Winter

Sr. Executive Assistant

Amy collaborates closely with the founding team, offering invaluable support while overseeing office operations and nurturing a vibrant company culture. Before joining Dimension, Amy served as a Relationship Manager at Insight Partners, a leading private equity firm specializing in high-growth technology and software ScaleUp companies. During her tenure, she excelled in managing strategic relationships with portfolio founders, played a pivotal role in shaping and expanding the scope of the Relationship Manager role, and orchestrated memorable team-wide global events. Her prior experience also includes a role as an executive assistant to a prominent entrepreneur, where she honed a diverse skill set. Amy holds a B.S. in Business Administration from San Diego State University. Based in New York City, she loves to discover new restaurants and coffee shops, enjoys traveling, and immersing herself in the vibrant music scene whenever the opportunity arises.

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