Andras Forgacs

Senior Partner at Starlight Ventures

Speaker

Andras is an entrepreneur in deep tech and life sciences. He is Senior Partner at Starlight Ventures, a venture capital firm for founders addressing the world’s most pressing challenges and opportunities. Starlight partners early with unstoppable entrepreneurs leveraging breakthrough science and technology to pursue progress at scale.

Andras is founder, director & former CEO of Modern Meadow, a protein application platform company developing novel materials and ingredients for a healthier planet. Named as a 2018 Tech Pioneer by the World Economic Forum, Modern Meadow’s Bio-Alloy biomaterials and collagen-inspired fermentation-derived proteins address high performance and sustainable applications in fashion, beauty and wellness markets. Andras is also co-founder and chair of Fork & Good innovating in cellular agriculture to produce delicious, nutritious and sustainable pork without animals.

Previously, Andras co-founded Organovo which pioneered the use of 3D bio-printing to create human tissue for a range of biomedical applications. He managed Richmond Global, an international technology-focused venture fund and was a consultant with McKinsey.

He is co-founder and former chair of the Resolution Project focused on global social entrepreneurship, a Kauffman Fellow (Class 14) and was recognized as 40 under 40 by Crain’s New York. Andras graduated with a bachelors from Harvard and an MBA from Wharton. And his greatest venture are his two daughters Alexa and Amelia.