Avak Kahvejian is a venture capital investor at Flagship Pioneering who frequently serves as founding CEO of the biotechs he helps create, bringing deep technical experience from his early work developing single-molecule DNA sequencing platforms at Helicos Biosciences. He focuses on building programmable medicine platforms through Flagship's company creation model, where new ventures are conceived and incubated internally rather than sourced from outside pitches. Avak Kahvejian is a venture capital investor at Flagship Pioneering who frequently serves as founding CEO of the biotechs he helps create, bringing deep technical experience from his early work developing single-molecule DNA sequencing platforms at Helicos Biosciences. He focuses on building programmable medicine platforms through Flagship's company creation model, where new ventures are conceived and incubated internally rather than sourced from outside pitches.