{"687999":{"#nid":"687999","#data":{"type":"event","title":"Bio LaunchPad Seminar","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.creativeventures.vc\/team\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EJames Wang\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EGeneral Partner\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ECreative Ventures\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EJames Wang is a General Partner at Creative Ventures, an early-stage deep tech venture fund investing in AI, healthcare, synthetic biology, and industrial technology, and the author of \u003Cem\u003EWhat You Need to Know About AI\u003C\/em\u003E. Before becoming an investor, he co-founded Lioness as CTO, developing biofeedback devices with physiological sensors and building ML pipelines on data from thousands of users\u2014 giving him firsthand experience with the unique challenges of bringing bio-hardware from bench to market. In this talk, James will share what the journey from founder to VC taught him about what separates deep tech startups that succeed from those that stall, how AI is reshaping what\u0027s possible for biology-driven companies, and practical advice for researchers thinking about commercializing their work and raising venture capital.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/forms.office.com\/r\/8YQzMbSX8M\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EREGISTER HERE\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E to attend in-person.\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E\u003Cbr\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Ch5\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u0022Building and Investing at the Intersection of Biology, AI, and Technology\u0022\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h5\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"\u201cBuilding and Investing at the Intersection of Biology, AI, and Technology\u201d - James Wang, Creative Ventures"}],"uid":"35486","created_gmt":"2026-02-03 18:42:20","changed_gmt":"2026-02-04 13:09:09","author":"Christina Wessels","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2026-03-03T13:00:00-05:00","event_time_end":"2026-03-03T14:00:00-05:00","event_time_end_last":"2026-03-03T14:00:00-05:00","gmt_time_start":"2026-03-03 18:00:00","gmt_time_end":"2026-03-03 19:00:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2026-03-03 19:00:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"location":"Petit Biotechnology Building, 315 Ferst Drive, Suddath Seminar Room 1128","extras":[],"related_links":[{"url":"https:\/\/research.gatech.edu\/bio\/commercialization","title":"IBB Commercialization Website"}],"groups":[{"id":"655285","name":"GT Commercialization"},{"id":"1292","name":"Parker H. Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience (IBB)"},{"id":"1254","name":"Wallace H. Coulter Dept. of Biomedical Engineering"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"187423","name":"go-bio"},{"id":"188880","name":"go-bio-commercialization"},{"id":"189814","name":"go-researchevents"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"1795","name":"Seminar\/Lecture\/Colloquium"}],"invited_audience":[{"id":"78761","name":"Faculty\/Staff"},{"id":"177814","name":"Postdoc"},{"id":"78771","name":"Public"},{"id":"174045","name":"Graduate students"},{"id":"78751","name":"Undergraduate students"}],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:connect@ibb.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Econnect@ibb.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}