Dan Fero

Managing Director

Working across all of the OMX investment sectors Dan seeks to identify and help scale foundational platform technologies that expand our ability to decipher and forward-engineer biology.

Dan Fero

Dan is a co-founder and managing partner at OMX Ventures, where he invests in and builds companies across OMX’s sectors of interest. A technologist at heart, Dan gravitates towards platform companies that utilize a strong data approach to product discovery and development.

Within the portfolio, Dan is dedicated to supporting founding teams as they translate scientific discoveries into real-world products efficiently, and he currently works with portfolio companies including Mythic Therapeutics, ReAx Biotechnologies, Matterworks, Type6 Therapeutics and Cellsonics. He is also the co-founder of precision oncology company Uereka Biosciences.

Prior to OMX Ventures Dan was a venture investor with Merieux Equity Partners, and a strategy consultant with L.E.K. Consulting in Boston. Dan earned a PhD in Biomedical Sciences from UCSD, where he tried to figure out how blood vessels form a tube (mostly unsuccessfully), and also holds a BA in biology from Rhode Island College.

Outside of work Dan enjoys spending time with his family, stacking firewood each spring, and teaching unathletic dogs to catch frisbee.

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Mythic has uncovered a key mechanism governing how antibody drugs interact with target cells. Using this understanding, Mythic is significantly improving upon existing FDA-approved antibody therapies for oncology, both in terms of safety and efficacy.

ReAx Biotechnologies
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ReAx is developing a next-generation chemoproteomics platform which leverages chemical and biological insights to identify and target novel hotspots across the proteome in disease-relevant contexts.

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Type6 is developing a new class of bifunctional kinase inhibitors to drug a range of historically hard-to-target cancers. Their rational engineering approach creates highly specific, high avidity molecules.

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Cellsonics is developing a proprietary SimpleFlow™ technology to enable the first fully automated tissue dissociation workflow from solid tissue to single cells while maintaining native gene expression.

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Matterworks is building a machine-learning software platform to enable users of mass spectrometry (MS) instruments to avoid chromatography steps in analyzing metabolomics samples, thereby achieving faster MS performance and covering a significantly broader range of analytes per run.

TARA Biosystems
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TARA is pioneering predictive cardiac tissue models to enable faster, safer, and more reliable development of new medicines. TARA is focused on three critical areas including cardiac toxicology, precision cardiology, and heart failure drug discovery.

Featured Perspectives

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Mythic Therapeutics to Present Data from Phase 1 KisMET-01 Study on MYTX-011 at the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Annual Meeting

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Mythic Therapeutics Appoints George Eliades, Ph.D., as President and Chief Executive Officer

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MYTX-011 Is Given FDA Fast Track Designation for cMET Overexpressing NSCLC

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Valo Health Acquires TARA Biosystems Creating First of its Kind Vertically Integrated Cardiovascular Platform

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Mythic Therapeutics Scores $103 Million to Make “Safer and Smarter” ADCs

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