Yanniv Dorone
Managing Director @ Fall Line Capital
About
Yanniv is a Managing Director at Fall Line Capital, a venture capital firm focused on AgTech, FoodTech, Biotech, and climate startups as well as US farmland. Before joining Fall Line, Yanniv spent over two years at AgFunder, a VC firm that invests in the biology, food, and agriculture sectors. He holds a Ph.D. in Biology from Stanford University, where he studied novel membraneless organelles and their roles in environmental sensing. His research was published in Cell and featured on the cover of the journal, as well as highlighted in Science, Nature Plants, Nature Chemical Biology, PNAS, Developmental Cell, and Molecular Plant. Additionally, he was awarded the Charles Yanofsky Prize for "most outstanding graduate student working in the field of molecular biology" by Stanford. Prior to his Ph.D., Yanniv worked on multiple research projects in different areas of biology at Harvard University, the University of Cambridge, and the Weizmann Institute of Science. His work earned him two prestigious fellowships at Stanford, and he was selected as an American Society of Plant Biologists scholar. In 2019, Yanniv was included in Forbes 30 Under 30: Science and Healthcare Europe. He holds a B.S. and an M.S. in Biology from the École Normale Supérieure de Lyon, where he was admitted with the competitive "Normalien" fellowship. While at Stanford, he was selected to participate in Stanford's accelerator program, Cardinal Ventures, and the Ignite program at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. He is also a registered Patent Agent with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, having passed the USPTO registration exam for patent practitioners.
United States
San Francisco Bay Area
Venture Capital & Private Equity
AgTech, Start-ups, Life Sciences, Research, Working with Investors, Agriculture, Food Technology, Intellectual Property, Financial Structuring, Valuation, Early-stage Startups, Funding, Portfolio Management, Business Strategy, Investment Properties, Financial Modeling, Board of Directors, Financial Analysis, Investment Strategies, Venture Financing
Experience
Managing Director
Fall Line Capital
Fall Line Capital is a venture capital firm focused on AgTech, FoodTech, Biotech, and climate startups.
Senior Vice President
Fall Line Capital
Vice President
Fall Line Capital
San Mateo, California, United States
Senior Associate
Fall Line Capital
San Mateo, California, United States
Board Member
Ansa Biotechnologies, Inc.
At Ansa Biotechnologies, we’re developing a way to synthesize DNA that will accelerate innovation in medicine, agriculture, and industrial biotechnology. Our fast, clean, and accurate enzymatic DNA synthesis process can produce gene-length molecules directly, overcoming bottlenecks of traditional DNA synthesis methods.
Board Observer
Ansa Biotechnologies, Inc.
Board Member
Arzeda
Physics-based protein design and AI algorithms to create, validate, and manufacture new designer proteins and enzymes.
Board Member
UNCAGED Innovations
UNCAGED Innovations is a biomaterials company combining the power of nature and technology to reimagine leather. The quality and performance of traditional leather come from the protein structure of collagen. UNCAGED leverages structural proteins from grains to replace animal collagen, enabling us to create a fiber that looks, feels, and performs like leather. www.uncagedinnovations.com
Board Member
Nulixir Inc.
Patented nanovesicle technology, enhancing functional ingredient taste/function in F&B.
Board Member
Chunk Foods
Chunk's mission is to make delicious, nutritious, plant-based whole cuts that are kind to the environment and accessible to all.
Board Observer
Chunk Foods
Board Member
Mermade
Mermade is a seed-stage B2B biotech company that provides media recycling solutions for biomanufacturing.
Board Observer
Mermade
Board Observer
Ukko
Ukko uses its computational protein design platform to develop a pipeline of revolutionary therapeutics for life threatening allergies: modulating the immune system of allergic patients without triggering allergy.
Board Observer
Ripple Foods
Plant-based dairy alternatives that are good for you and good for the planet.
Board Observer
Wild Microbes
Building a next-gen microbial platform, to make everything from plastics to proteins.
Education
Stanford University
Cell/Cellular and Molecular Biology
Department of Biology—Cell and molecular biology track Awarded the Charles Yanofsky Prize for "most outstanding graduate student working in the field of molecular biology" Main publication: Dorone, Yanniv, Steven Boeynaems, Eduardo Flores, Benjamin Jin, Shannon Hateley, Flavia Bossi, Elena Lazarus et al. "A prion-like protein regulator of seed germination undergoes hydration-dependent phase separation." Cell (2021). Featured on the cover. Highlighted in Science, Nature Plants, Nature Chemical Biology, PNAS, Developmental Cell and Molecular Plant.
Stanford University Graduate School of Business
Business Administration and Management, General
University of Cambridge
Plant Sciences
Homerton College Plant sciences: https://www.plantsci.cam.ac.uk/teaching/plants
École normale supérieure de Lyon
Biology, General
Normalien student (228 spots for 6000 candidates)
Lycée Henri IV
CPGE PCSI-PC*
Ecole Jeannine Manuel
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