Jayaranjan Anthonypillai

Jayaranjan has an extensive background in scientific research and technology validation and has worked in clinical, clean-tech, biotech, and agri-tech sectors. Leveraging his experience and background in biology and lipid chemistry, he has developed novel technologies for overcoming product development, process development, and engineering challenges.

He has also been an active figure in the Bay Area biotech startup scene and is the founder of Berkeley Biolabs, a biotech incubator where he helped mentor and launch over 30 companies, and co-founded The Berkeley Program which equips high school and middle school STEM students to pursue entrepreneurship. As an entrepreneur and mentor for several startups, J’s emphasis is often on product/market fit as the main driver of R&D effort and strategy.