Manu Satyavolu
Union City,CA
Overview
5
5
years of professional experience
Work History
Venture Partner
Arben Ventures
04.2024 - Current
- Lead initial pitch meetings, speaking directly with founders to evaluate their science, technology, market potential, and competition before sharing my insights with the General Partners (GPs).
- Conduct research on new biotech and healthtech companies, assessing the strength of their technology, commercial potential, and market demand.
- Analyze financials, regulatory challenges, and growth strategies to help determine if a company is a good investment.
- Present investment recommendations to GPs, discussing my findings and helping make final decisions on funding.
- Find and connect with promising startups, bringing new deals to the table through independent research and networking.
- Help raise capital, working with LPs and institutional investors to secure funding for investment opportunities.
- Stay on top of industry trends, tracking new innovations and market changes to identify future investment opportunities.
Clinical Data Manager
Stanford University - School of Medicine
01.2022 - Current
- Manage a patient database with 3,000+ records for the Bone Marrow Transplant Center, ensuring accurate data collection and reporting.
- Improve data management processes, creating tools to make clinical trial data collection and analysis more efficient.
- Review patient records in Hematology-Oncology, tracking treatment progress and identifying remission or disease progression.
- Ensure data accuracy and compliance, conducting audits and quality control checks using Formsnet, BMT-Core, and Epic software.
- Help bring new treatments to patients, researching biotech companies with promising therapies and successfully pitching clinical trials to department heads, leading to improved remission rates for high-risk patients.
Research Associate
Genentech Inc.
04.2021 - 01.2022
- Handled DNA/RNA isolation from various clinical samples to support biotech research and development.
- Improved sample retrieval and tracking systems, cutting down processing time by 45%.
- Worked with international research teams, collaborating with partners in Europe and Australia.
- Led discussions with stakeholders, helping build new partnerships with biotech companies.
Quality Control Associate
Lucira Health Inc.
06.2020 - 04.2021
- Helped develop and launch an at-home COVID-19 test, which received FDA Emergency Use Authorization and had a 94% accuracy rate.
- Ran quality control testing, making sure the product met safety and regulatory standards.
- Managed supply chain operations, working with vendors to optimize costs and ensure production efficiency.
- Analyzed product performance, using MATLAB and Excel to track test accuracy and reliability.
Education
B.S. - Biology
University of California, Riverside
Riverside, CA06.2020
M.S. - Biomedical Sciences
Southern California University of Health Sciences
12.2022
Skills
- Venture Capital & Fundraising
- Biotech & Healthtech Market Research
- Due Diligence & Investment Analysis
- Clinical Data Management & Compliance
- Scientific & Financial Evaluation
- Networking & Deal Sourcing
- Data reporting
- Protocol development
- Clinical research
Timeline
Venture Partner
Arben Ventures
04.2024 - Current
Clinical Data Manager
Stanford University - School of Medicine
01.2022 - Current
Research Associate
Genentech Inc.
04.2021 - 01.2022
Quality Control Associate
Lucira Health Inc.
06.2020 - 04.2021
B.S. - Biology
University of California, Riverside
M.S. - Biomedical Sciences
Southern California University of Health Sciences
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