{"id":170255,"date":"2026-02-09T11:13:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T11:13:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/170255\/"},"modified":"2026-02-09T11:13:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T11:13:10","slug":"synthetic-biology-events-info-industry-information","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/170255\/","title":{"rendered":"Synthetic Biology Events, Info, &#038; Industry Information"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"framer-text framer-styles-preset-1h5xdqa\">Today, John Cumbers talks with Ursheet Parikh, a general partner at Mayfield Fund, an early-stage, global venture capital firm with a people-first philosophy and a 50-plus-year history of investing and partnering with founders. John and Ursheet will discuss the state of the synthetic biology market and what startups can do to survive and thrive in this turbulent economy. To learn more, go to <a class=\"framer-text\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mayfield.com\/\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">www.mayfield.com <\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"framer-text framer-styles-preset-1h5xdqa\">\u200d<\/p>\n<p class=\"framer-text framer-styles-preset-1h5xdqa\">Check out this week\u2019s sponsor: <a class=\"framer-text\" href=\"https:\/\/latch.bio\/\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">LatchBio<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"framer-text framer-styles-preset-1h5xdqa\">\u200d<\/p>\n<p class=\"framer-text framer-styles-preset-1h5xdqa\">Ursheet Parikh is a general partner at Mayfield Fund, where he has been investing in both human and planetary health companies since 2013. Ursheet\u2019s investments include companies such as Mammoth Biosciences, which has a focus on discovering novel CRISPR systems; Mission Bio, which is looking to apply a Single-Cell Sequencing platform toward oncology; Qventus, which is blazing a trail in Healthcare-AI; and Endpoint Health, which is reshaping the Precision Immunology space\u2014just to name a few. Ursheet holds an MBA from the Wharton School and a Bachelors in Computer Science from the Indian Institute of Technology in Mumbai. He is passionate about accelerating healthcare innovation and transforming college education, where his family foundation is focused.<\/p>\n<p class=\"framer-text framer-styles-preset-1h5xdqa\">Connect with Ursheet: <a class=\"framer-text\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ursheet\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">@ursheet<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"framer-text framer-styles-preset-1h5xdqa\">Connect with John:<a class=\"framer-text\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/johncumbers?lang=en\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"> @johncumbers<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"framer-text framer-styles-preset-1h5xdqa\">\u200d<\/p>\n<p class=\"framer-text framer-styles-preset-1h5xdqa\">Stay updated on the<a class=\"framer-text\" href=\"https:\/\/synbiobeta.com\/\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"> latest news in synthetic biology<\/a>, check out our<a class=\"framer-text\" href=\"https:\/\/synbiobeta.com\/subscribe\/\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"> weekly newsletter<\/a> and follow us on social media:<\/p>\n<p class=\"framer-text framer-styles-preset-1h5xdqa\"><a class=\"framer-text\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/synbiobeta\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a> |<a class=\"framer-text\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/synbiobeta\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"> LinkedIn<\/a> |<a class=\"framer-text\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/synbiobeta\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"> Facebook<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"framer-text framer-styles-preset-1h5xdqa\">Be sure you make it to our SynBioBeta events!<a class=\"framer-text\" href=\"https:\/\/studio.podcast.co\/bryce-joseph-nelson\/sbb-podcast\/synbiobetaevents.com\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"> Click here<\/a> for more information.<\/p>\n<p class=\"framer-text framer-styles-preset-1h5xdqa\">\u200d<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Today, John Cumbers talks with Ursheet Parikh, a general partner at Mayfield Fund, an early-stage, global venture capital&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":170256,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[143,145,144],"class_list":{"0":"post-170255","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-oakland","8":"tag-oakland","9":"tag-oakland-headlines","10":"tag-oakland-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=170255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170255\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/170256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}