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Ignacio Martinez

General Partner, Flagship Pioneering

About

Ignacio Martinez is a venture capital investor at Flagship Pioneering who serves as both GP and serial founding CEO across multiple sustainability companies in the firm's portfolio, including Montai Therapeutics, CIBO Technologies, Inari Agriculture, Invaio Sciences, and Senda Biosciences. He originated Flagship's distinctive thesis that computational agronomy and post-Mendelian breeding can transform seed development into a software-like industry with short cycles and continuous field-specific updates, while also pioneering the exploration of using exosome-like biology and microbiomes to control crop pests. Ignacio Martinez is a venture capital investor at Flagship Pioneering who serves as both GP and serial founding CEO across multiple sustainability companies in the firm's portfolio, including Montai Therapeutics, CIBO Technologies, Inari Agriculture, Invaio Sciences, and Senda Biosciences. He originated Flagship's distinctive thesis that computational agronomy and post-Mendelian breeding can transform seed development into a software-like industry with short cycles and continuous field-specific updates, while also pioneering the exploration of using exosome-like biology and microbiomes to control crop pests.

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Investment focus

Stages
Series A
Series B+
Sectors
BioTech
Health
Food
Ag
Climate
AI

Investment details

Avg check size$500K - S15M
Can lead rounds
No
Geographies
USA