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Monica Berrondo

InvestorFounder

PhD at Brazen Capital

Austin, Texas, United States

FoundedMacromoltek · YC

About

Monica Berrondo is founder and managing partner of Dare Bioventures, a venture capital firm focused on biotech and drug discovery innovation. Previously, she co-founded and led Macromoltek, a computational drug discovery company that worked with pharmaceutical and biotech partners on biologic drug design. Berrondo has mentored early-stage healthcare and biotech founders on fundraising, product development, and go-to-market strategy.

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Founder/CEO at MacromoltekYC W18

Intro paths

YC

Monica went through Y Combinator (Winter 2018) — any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.

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In turn, Monica can intro founders to Macromoltek's investors below.

Macromoltek's investors · 2

DCVC (Data Collective)Y Combinator

Co-founders at Macromoltek

SKSusana Kaufmann
Susana KaufmannFounder/CTO

Experience

  1. Dare BioventuresFounder and Managing Partnercurrent2025 — present
  2. Macromoltek Inc.CEOcurrent2010 — presentAustin, Texas Area
  3. Various Companies & AcceleratorsMentoring & Advisingcurrent2019 — present
  4. Brazen CapitalGeneral Partnercurrent2022 — present
  5. Women In BioChair - Austin Chapter2016 — 2017Austin, Texas Area
  6. Johns Hopkins UniversityPostdoctoral researcher2010 — 2011
  7. Rosetta Design Group LLCManaging Member2008 — 2010
  8. Johns Hopkins UniversityPhD Candidate2005 — 2010
  9. Rensselaer Polytechnic InstituteResearch Associate Student2004 — 2005
  10. Brigham Young UniversityResearch Associate Student2001 — 2002

Education

  1. The Johns Hopkins UniversityPh.D., Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering2005 — 2010
  2. Y Combinator2018
  3. Rensselaer Polytechnic InstituteB.S., Biomedical Engineering2003 — 2005

Skills & more

C#1C++13C1HTMLJava1PHPPerlPython19JavaScript1XMLCSSRuby on Rails
+12 moreMatlabRSQLAdobe Creative SuiteApacheUnixLinuxWindowsGnuplotCHARMMTurboGearscPanel

Languages English · Spanish

From Monica's professional profile.

Same school

Also attended The Johns Hopkins University196

Wes NicholsPartner at March Capital PartnersDemi ObayomiPrincipal at Sapphire VenturesCaitlinChief of Staff at Hummingbird VenturesJun JeonInvestor at Khosla VenturesNicole FraenkelInvestor at Khosla VenturesElena VibochManaging Director at General Catalyst

+ 190 more

Also attended Y Combinator186

Akshat GoenkaInvestor at Moonfire VenturesJon XuGeneral Partner at Y CombinatorTed ChaiAssociate at Scale Venture PartnersLeo LuInvestor at Foundation CapitalMaroof AhmedFounder at Octopus VenturesYusuf SherwaniCo-Founder and CEO at Pelago; a Londoner living in New York City

+ 180 more

Also attended Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute56

Lawrence BettinoManaging Director at Dot CapitalPatch PaczkowskiVenture Partner at IronGate Capital AdvisorsJonathan BurbaumEntrepreneur-In-Residence at The Innovation SpaceElly KeinanVenture Partner at PitangoJoe LallouzInvestor at Ambush CapitalJeremiah BrazeauVenture Advisor at Underscore VC

+ 50 more

Shared employers

Also worked at Women In Bio1

Chaya PatelPrincipal at Mission Biocapital

Also worked at Johns Hopkins University43

Demi ObayomiPrincipal at Sapphire VenturesCaitlinChief of Staff at Hummingbird VenturesJun JeonInvestor at Khosla VenturesLinda CuretonBoard Member at Maryland TEDCOCharlie BuffaVice President, Sales at Mainsail PartnersOluwakayode (Kay) JasanyaInvestor at SUPPLY CHANGE CAPITAL

+ 37 more

Also worked at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute5

Atul RaghunathanHyperbound at Roble VenturesTom BaruchInvestor at Baruch Future VenturesWale AdeosunFounder & Chief Executive Officer at Kuramo Capital ManagementRichard SwartwoutAnalyst at Safar PartnersNathaniel BowlesData Transformation Lead at Black Angel Group

Also worked at Brigham Young University29

Rachel CurtisInvestor at True VenturesMason VictorsInvestor at EPIC VENTURESJim EngebretsenInvestor at EPIC VENTURESSid KrommenhoekPartner at Album VCJensen WarnockCOO at Mercato PartnersTanner PotterPartner at Kickstart Fund

+ 23 more

Colleagues at Brazen Capital

Katherine Pohl
Partner at Brazen Capital
Liam Lewis
Investor at Brazen Capital
Warren Shawn Carbonell
Managing Partner at Brazen Capital