Peretz Partensky
Venture Partner @Pioneer Fund
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WORK HISTORY
Venture Partner @Pioneer Fund
San Francisco, CA, US
Working with the YC Alumni Community to invest in YC Companies. Deep expertise in healthcare and life sciences.
EDUCATION
Y Combinator
Winter 2013
Newton North High School
Dropout
Brandeis University
BA, Physics, Math, English
University of California, San Francisco
PhD, Biophysics
University of Cambridge
MPhil, European Literature
ABOUT PERETZ PARTENSKY
YC founder, team builder, serial entrepreneur, and immunology devotee. UCSF PhD in biochemistry/epigenetics. Product and people specialist. Professional generalist.Born in Siberia. Soviet refugee. High School Drop Out. Educated in Boston. Polished at Cambridge University. Doctored in San Francisco. Served as a science diplomat in Beijing. Coached basketball in Afghanistan. Hunted with eagles in Kyrgyzstan. Arrested and represented self in court in Kazakhstan. Published author. Father of three lion cubs. Skills1. Science - PhD research in epigenetics, chromatin biochemistry, and underlying mechanisms of cell identity maintenance2. Healthcare - VP of Product & Data at Optum/Anthem funded value-based healthcare company. Entrepreneurship - Co-founder of companies that have raised $100M+ in aggregate. Built and scaled teams from 0 to 30+ employees. Successfully hired away entire NASDAQ PM software team. Engineering & Product leadership - Managed a team of up to 7 engineers for 3 years. Responsible for critical product with high-uptime requirements that moved >$100M over three years. Communication - Most-read author on Medium for the week, on two separate occasions. Published in Wired, N+1 magazine. My photos have appeared in over a dozen newspapers online and print magazines, including WSJ, Wired, Fast Company, Vice, Biz Insider, Mashable, HuffPo.6. Dedication - Hiked 230 miles along John Muir Trail with ft of elevation gain/loss in 10 days.
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