Johannes Fruehauf

Johannes Fruehauf, MD PhD is a General Partner in the Cambridge office. Johannes sources, diligences, and leads new investment transactions and has board roles at various portfolio companies including Arkuda, QurAlis, Vaxess Technologies, and Sentien Biotechnologies and previously for Tidal Therapeutics, Totient, and Pandion. His background includes time as a physician working in diverse health systems as well as 20+ years as a serial biotech entrepreneur.

Through his passionate vision of re-defining life science start-up ecosystems, he is the Co-Founder and President of LabCentral, the preeminent public-private partnership model for life science incubator space. He is also CEO for BioLabs, the operator of laboratory co-working spaces for startups nationwide. LabCentral, BioLabs and MBC BioLabs currently serve over 385 startups in 8 geographies. The companies started within this network now routinely account for over 20% of all Seed and Series A venture capital invested in life sciences in the US.

Johannes graduated from the University of Frankfurt and received his doctorate from the University of Heidelberg. He studied medicine in Germany and France, while also conducting field work in Africa (Zimbabwe and Guinea). He has received numerous awards and recognitions for his scientific and entrepreneurial work, including the EY Entrepreneur of the Year (New England) and Immigrant Entrepreneur of the Year awards.