Jon Lim is a Managing Partner who joined F-Prime in 2011 to launch our dedicated efforts in Healthtech + Services. His investments include F-Prime’s investments in Liazon (acquired by Towers Watson), PatientPing (acquired by Appriss Heath, now Bamboo Health), VitalWare (acquired by Health Catalyst), Artemis Health (acquired by Nomi Health), Lumere (acquired by Global Healthcare Exchange), Blue Rabbit (acquired by Wedgewood Pharmacy), Protenus (acquired by Bluesight), Benchling, BenchSci, Centivo, Equip Health, Kyruus, NOCD, OncoveryCare, Proximie, Rippl, TraceLink, US HealthVest and WelbeHealth. Jon was previously a Principal at Polaris Partners, where he was part of the teams that led investments in Phytel (acquired by IBM), Egnyte, Recurly, and Ocular Therapeutix (NASDAQ: OCUL). Jon began his investing career in 2002 as an Associate at Summit Partners, where his investments include MDVIP (acquired by Procter & Gamble) and Diagnostic Hybrids (acquired by Quidel). Jon also worked previously at Medtronic in their cardiac rhythm and disease management business.
Jon holds an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School and an A.B. in East Asian Studies from Harvard College, where he graduated magna cum laude.
In Loving Memory of Thomas Russell Beck, MD
August 3, 1949 – May 25, 2020
It is with a profound and deep sense of sadness that F-Prime says goodbye to Executive Partner Tom Beck. Tom was an essential and beloved friend and colleague to us all. We will greatly miss Tom’s expertise, wisdom, rolled-up-sleeves hands-on hard work, avuncular guidance, generosity, sense of humor and indefatigable bon homie that he maintained to the very end. Through his work, Tom made a big impact on the biotechnology industry, and an even bigger impact on all of us.
Robert Weisskoff, Senior Partner, joined F-Prime in 2004. Robert has worked extensively in both academia and the bioscience industry for thirty years. Prior to F-Prime, he held various senior roles in R&D and Business Development at both pharmaceutical and medical device companies. In his academic career, Dr. Weisskoff was Associate Professor of Radiology at Harvard Medical School, on the faculty of the Harvard-MIT Health Sciences Technology (HST) Program, and performed research at Massachusetts General Hospital, where he was Associate Director of the MGH-NMR Center. There he worked at the intersection of basic research, medical technology development, and clinical research in a variety of areas. Robert is the author of over 100 peer-reviewed scientific papers, and an inventor on 6 US patents.
Robert holds a PhD in Physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an M.B.A. from Columbia University. He received his A.B. degree in Physics from Harvard University, graduating magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa.
Robert serves on the Board of Directors of Adela, Affinia Therapeutics, Countable Labs, Plasmagen Biosciences, RareCyte, Shinobi Therapeutics, and Zenflow, Inc. He has previously served on the boards of Accuri Cytometers (acquired by Becton Dickinson), Caribou Biosciences (NASDAQ: CRBU), Farapulse (acquired by Boston Scientific), Ikano Therapeutics (acquired by UCB), Laurus Labs (NSE: LAURUSLABS), Structure Therapeutics (NASDAQ: GPCR), Surface Oncology (NASDAQ: SURF), Tetraphase (NASDAQ: TTPH), Transave (NASDAQ: INSM), Topaz (acquired by Sanofi Pasteur), ViewRay (NASDAQ: VRAY) and Xilio Therapeutics (NASDAQ: XLO).
Stephen Knight joined F-Prime in 2003 where he serves as President and Senior Managing Partner. He has worked in the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries for over 30 years and invests broadly across healthcare. Steve serves on the Board of Directors of Atalanta Therapeutics, Leyden Labs, Paradigm, Quantum Circuits, Inc. (QCI), Skyline Therapeutics, and Xaira Therapeutics. Steve previously served on the boards of several private and public health care companies including Beam Therapeutics (NASDAQ: BEAM), Blueprint Medicines (NASDAQ: BPMC), Denali Therapeutics (NASDAQ: DNLI), FoldRx Pharmaceuticals (acquired by Pfizer), Innovent Biologics (1801.HK), Iora Health (acquired by One Medical), Ironwood Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ: IRWD), NextWave Pharmaceuticals (acquired by Pfizer), Prime Medicine (NASDAQ: PRME), Respivert, Ltd (acquired by J&J), Sana Biotechnology (NASDAQ: SANA), and Semma Therapeutics (acquired by Vertex).
Prior to joining F-Prime, Steve held various senior management roles in private and public biotechnology and consulting companies. He also was a researcher at AT&T Bell Laboratories, the National Institutes of Health, and Yale University. He holds an MD from the Yale University School of Medicine, and an MBA from the Yale School of Organization and Management and received a BS in biology from Columbia University, graduating summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa.