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77th percentile
Ginkgo Bioworks co-founder post-IPO and GP at Pillar VC
Credibility
Experience · 41th percentile
- Pillar VC was co-founded in February 2019, giving Reshma Shetty approximately 6 years of investing experience.
Relationship Matrix
Founder score
- 98%Probability of being accurate (98%)Current co-founder of Ginkgo Bioworks, where she has served since 2008.
- 97%Probability of being accurate (97%)Ginkgo Bioworks is a Y Combinator S14 company, making Reshma Shetty a YC alum.
- 97%Probability of being accurate (97%)Ginkgo Bioworks went public via IPO in 2021, representing a founder exit.
- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)Ginkgo Bioworks raised at least $51.6M per SEC Form D exempt-offering filings naming Reshma Shetty as a related person.
- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)Ginkgo Bioworks was co-founded with Austin Che, Jason Kelly, Barry Canton, and Tom Knight.
- 90%Probability of being accurate (90%)GitHub account @reshmashetty is dormant with no public push activity in nearly 8 years (last push to 'reactLearning' was 2887 days ago).
- 62%Probability of being accurate (62%)GitHub account @reshmashetty identified as belonging to Reshma J Shetty.
- 62%Probability of being accurate (62%)GitHub account @reshmashetty has been active for approximately 10 years (created June 2015).
- 40%Probability of being accurate (40%)Stack Overflow account identified for Reshma Shetty.
Investor score
- 88%Probability of being accurate (88%)Co-founded Pillar VC, a seed-stage venture firm co-founded by 22 Boston CEOs and leaders, making her an active GP and fund manager.
- 85%Probability of being accurate (85%)Founding Pillar at Pillar VC, a recognized seed-stage venture firm based in Boston with a public portfolio and deal record.
- 82%Probability of being accurate (82%)Pillar VC was co-founded in February 2019, giving Reshma Shetty approximately 6 years of investing experience.
What you likely need
You're a rare post-IPO deep-tech founder with an active investing platform, and the Festival events most valuable to you sit at the intersection of biotech credibility and VC positioning. Dinners and roundtables that put you in front of LP networks, public-company board circles, and bio-AI researchers will compound your Pillar VC deal flow and thought leadership simultaneously. You'll get the most signal from small, high-trust rooms where your Ginkgo IPO track record and synthetic biology depth are genuinely differentiated — not just impressive.
Would you attend these IRL Festival events?
We will tune and customize your Founder Festival experience to make sure you get invited to the events that would be most valuable to you.
- fundraisingA Pillar VC founder-to-LP dinner with deep-tech seed fund LPs where you can road-test your Ginkgo IPO anchor story as the centerpiece of Pillar's next fund narrative
- positioningA synthetic biology × AI roundtable with founders and researchers working on virtual cell models and bio-foundation models, where you can publicly sharpen and stress-test your investment thesis before publishing it under Pillar VC
- introsA YC S14 alumni dinner focused on early-stage biotech founders where you can source Pillar deal flow and offer domain-expert mentorship rooted in your Ginkgo Bioworks journey from lab to NYSE
- positioningA closed dinner for post-IPO biotech founders and sitting independent board directors at public life-sciences companies, to accelerate your path to your first independent board seat
- tacticalA Hugging Face bio-ML builders happy hour with researchers and developers actively publishing biological datasets and notebooks, where you can workshop formally releasing Ginkgo Datapoints under your personal account to anchor a public bio-AI research identity
- positioningA small dinner with top science and tech journalists and podcast hosts covering AI infrastructure, where you pitch the Ginkgo Virtual Cell and Datapoints work as the underrepresented synthetic biology story mainstream tech media is missing
- introsAn invite-only office hours session pairing deep-tech seed investors with YC and non-YC biotech founders raising pre-seed or seed rounds, designed to funnel domain-aligned deal flow directly to Pillar VC