Elliot Hershberg
InvestorPartner at Amplify Partners · Biotech Partner at Not Boring Capital
Mountain View, California
Writes $100K – $5M checks · typically $1.5M
About
Elliot Hershberg is a scientist, writer, and investor focused on the frontier of biotechnology and genomics. He has worked across a range of biotech problems, including designing cancer vaccines, building computational tools for spatial genomics, and engineering a modern genome browser. He is pursuing a Ph.D. in Genetics at Stanford University, and previously studied computer science at Oregon State and biology at Southwestern University. He writes the Century of Biology newsletter and frames his work around what he calls "The Century of Biology."
Elliot Hershberg @elliothershberg
The full preprint is really worth checking out. Stunning basic research accelerated by AI. https://t.co/weKyFVRy9T
Jul 30, 2026 · ♥ 13 · ⇄ 3
Elliot Hershberg @elliothershberg
Data that still lives rent free in my head after CSHL AI in Bio: In silico prediction of the ten-subunit complex that appears to control sperm-egg fusion. Done with AlphaFold Multimer. Absolutely stunning. This complex is so gnarly that this group hasn't been able to https://t.co/9P8qunM4Y7
Jul 30, 2026 · ♥ 113 · ⇄ 14
Elliot Hershberg @elliothershberg
Lots of interesting conversation on the evolution of biotech VC the past few days. Risk tolerance has gone way down. A huge emphasis on mitigating “go to zero” risk across portfolios—which is a very different philosophy than tech VC. One argument for this is that tech and https://t.co/ZocH4HQdLj
Jun 26, 2026 · ♥ 161 · ⇄ 17
Invests in
Crypto & Web3Deep TechEnergyFintechHardwareSaaS
Beyond investing
- Education
- Is pursuing a Ph.D. in Genetics at Stanford University, starting September 2021. Earned a B.S. in Computer Science from Oregon State University (2018-2020). Earned a B.A. in Biology with a minor in Data Science from Southwestern University (2014-2018).
- More
- Writes the Century of Biology newsletter on Substack. Helped design cancer vaccines and built computational tools for spatial genomics technologies. Worked as a software engineer on the modern JBrowse genome browser.
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Experience
- Amplify PartnersPartnercurrent2025 — presentSan Francisco, California, United States
- Stanford UniversityDoctoral Student2021 — 2025Stanford, California, United States
- Not BoringBiotech Partner2022 — 2025The Internet
- Not BoringResearch Analyst2022The Internet
- 8VCBio-IT Fellow2022San Francisco Bay Area
- University of California, BerkeleySoftware Developer2020 — 2021
- University of WashingtonResearch Scientist Engineer2018 — 2020Seattle, Washington, United States
Education
- Stanford UniversityDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Genetics2021 — 2025
- Oregon State UniversityBachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science2018 — 2020
- Southwestern UniversityBachelor of Arts - BA, Biology2014 — 2018
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