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Steve Jurvetson
Co-Founder
Future Ventures
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25
May 2025, SynBioBeta
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Steve Jurvetson is an early-stage venture capitalist with a focus on founder-led, mission-driven companies at the cutting edge of disruptive technology and new industry formation. Steve led founding investments in several companies that had successful IPOs and others that were billion-dollar acquisitions, representing $1.7 trillion of aggregate value creation. Some of those early VC investments include Planet Labs, SpaceX and Tesla. Before co-founding Future Ventures and Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Steve was an R&D Engineer at Hewlett-Packard, where seven of his chip designs were fabricated. He also worked in product marketing at Apple and NeXT and management consulting with Bain & Company. He completed his undergraduate Electrical Engineering degree at Stanford in 2.5 years, graduating #1 in his class, and went on to earn a MSEE and MBA from Stanford. In 2017, Steve received the Visionary Award from SV Forum. In 2016, President Barack Obama appointed Steve as a Presidential Ambassador for Global Entrepreneurship. Steve has also been honored as one of "Tech's Best Venture Investors" by Forbes, and as the “Venture Capitalist of the Year” by Deloitte.
SynBioBeta 2025 - Keynote
Unbound Biology: Psychedelic Science Meets Breakthrough Biotech
The psychedelic renaissance is colliding with the frontiers of biotechnology, opening bold new pathways for healing, consciousness, and brain health. In this thought-provoking session, Gul Dolen, professor of behavioral and systems neuroscience at UC Berkeley, joins visionary investor Steve Jurvetson and Rick Doblin, founder of MAPS and pioneer of psychedelic-assisted therapy. Together, they’ll explore how synthetic biology, precision medicine, and neuroplasticity research are converging to unlock the therapeutic potential of psychedelics. From molecular design to regulatory breakthroughs, this conversation dives into the science, ethics, and future of reprogramming the mind.
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