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Ricardo Heredia, Ph.D.

MIT Sloan Fellow | Venture Capital Fellow | Venture Scout | Biotech & TechBio x AI/ML

United States
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Years Experience

27

Roles

21

Skills

12

Education

About

I am an US-based professional with interests at the intersection of biopharmaceutical manufacturing, digital manufacturing and business with varied international industrial and academic experience. I also have an interest in Venture Capital with a focus on Biotech, TechBio, AI/ML and Web3 verticals. I have received 30+ international scholarships and fellowships for education and training in the fields of biotechnology, AI/ML, business administration, leadership, innovation and entrepreneurship (UK, USA, Germany, Japan, Denmark, Spain, China, Mexico). I am always enthusiastic to explore new opportunities and collaborations in interdisciplinary, international and intergenerational projects.

Experience (27 roles)

VC Lab

Venture Capital Fellow

Current

VC Lab

Jul 2025 - Present · 2 mos·United States

Skills: Venture Capital · Venture Financing · Start-up Ventures · Entrepreneurship

Massachusetts Institute of Technology · Full-time

Sloan Fellow, Business Administration

Current

Massachusetts Institute of Technology · Full-time

Jun 2025 - Present · 3 mos·Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Skills: Venture Capital · Entrepreneurship · Corporate Finance · Investment · Management · Venture Financing

GoingVC

Venture Capital Fellow

Current

GoingVC

Feb 2025 - Present · 7 mos·United States

Skills: Venture Capital · Venture Financing · Life Sciences · Entrepreneurship · Fundraising · Business Analysis · Investment · Start-up Ventures

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Education (12)

MIT Sloan School of Management

MIT Sloan School of Management

2025 - 2026

Activities and societies: Venture Capital & Private Equity Club | Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning Club | Hispanic Business Club Sloan Fellow & Dean's Fellow

Stanford University Graduate School of Business

Stanford University Graduate School of Business

2022 - 2023

Activities and societies: Galvanizers Cohort Focus: Business Administration, Corporate Innovation and Strategic Leadership Skills: Managerial Economics · Strategy · Team Management · Innovation Management · Corporate Finance · Business Development · Financial Accounting · Venture Capital · Management · Business Analytics · Business Analysis · Leadership

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

2022 - 2023

Focus: Foundational Machine Learning for Big Data and Text Processing; Advanced Machine Learning for Big Data and Text Processing; Deep Learning for AI and Computer Vision; Reinforcement Learning; Applied Data Science - AI for decision making; Bioprocess Data Analytics and Machine Learning. Skills: Data Science · Artificial Intelligence (AI) · Data Analytics · Machine Learning · Data Mining · Deep Learning · Python (Programming Language) · Data Analysis · Multivariate Analysis

Skills (21)

Business AnalysisCell CultureDigital ManufacturingEntrepreneurshipPythonBiopharmaceutical EngineeringSmart ManufacturingBiotechnologyBusiness DevelopmentManagementData AnalyticsStart-up VenturesUpstream ProcessingBiochemical EngineeringInvestmentFundraisingResearch and Development (R&D)Technology ManagementStrategyManufacturing IntelligenceVenture Financing
Certifications (12)

Oxford Machine Learning (OxML)

AI for Global Goals

Social Biotechnology (Newton Fund)

Chinese Academy of Sciences

Digital Bioprocessing (BIOPRO World Talent)

Novo Nordisk Foundation

Intellectual Property (IP)

World Intellectual Property Organization – WIPO

UCL Modular Training for the Bioprocess Industries (MBI Programme - 8 modules)

UCL

Social Entrepreneurship

University of Oxford

International Business & Business Economics

University of Cambridge

Applied Data Science (ADS)

University of Oxford

Venture Fundraising

Pygma

Lean Six Sigma Leadership Yellow Belt

University of Oxford

Business Innovation (CBA LABS)

Cambridge Judge Business School

Advanced Process Data Analytics

ETH Zürich

Languages (6)
Chinese (HSK 1)(Elementary proficiency)German (CEFR C1)(Professional working proficiency)French (CEFR A2)(Elementary proficiency)Japanese (JPLT N2)(Professional working proficiency)Spanish (CEFR C2)(Native or bilingual proficiency)English (CEFR C2)(Full professional proficiency)
Volunteer Experience (7)

Mentor, Higher Education

projectaccess.org

Aug 2018 - Jul 2019 · 1 yr

Steering Committee Member, Hispanic/Latino Organization for Leadership and Advancement (HOLA)

Merck Group

Apr 2021 - Apr 2022 · 1 yr 1 mo

Advisory Council Member

Current

Harvard Business Review

Aug 2024 - Present · 1 yr 1 mo

STEM Mentor, Diversity and Inclusion

The New York Academy of Sciences

Jan 2019 - Sep 2019 · 9 mos

Committee Member, Partnerships

Current

Latinos in Bio

Apr 2023 - Present · 2 yrs 5 mos

STEM Ambassador - London Hub

STEM Ambassadors

Mar 2018 - Feb 2019 · 1 yr

Mentor, Entrepreneurship

iGEM Foundation

Apr 2021 - Aug 2021 · 5 mos

Honors & Awards (20)

BIOPRO World Talent Fellowship

Issued by Novo Nordisk Foundation - BIOPRO Inititaive - Danish Technical University (DTU) - University of Copenhagen (KU), Denmark · Aug 2019

Associated with University of Cambridge Advanced training in digital bioprocessing (Copenhagen, Denmark)

Santander Scholar, Impact Leadership

Issued by Santander and ESADE Business School · Jun 2020

Associated with University of Cambridge

ESACT Early Career Research Grant

Issued by European Society for Animal Cell Technology · Nov 2019

Associated with University of Cambridge Selected recipe for a full grant to attend the international AIChE meeting 2019 (FL, USA) for scientific participation to disseminate work on cell culture process development, intensification and optimisation for biopharmaceutical manufacturing.

London Business School - Prodigy Finance Prize (Technology)

Issued by London Business School (UK) · Feb 2018

Associated with London Business School The technology prize was awarded during the LBS Hackathon for innovation and commercialisation of digital services and products, where our business model proposal consisted on an integrated data management system for democratisation of genetic testing.

Newton Venture Capital Scholarship

Issued by Newton Venture Program · Feb 2023

Associated with Sanofi

IChemE Early Career Researcher Grant - Biochemical Engineering

Issued by Institute of Chemical Engineers (UK) · Nov 2019

Associated with University of Cambridge Selected recipe for a full grant to attend the international AIChE meeting 2019 (FL, USA) for scientific participation to disseminate work on cell culture process development, intensification and optimisation for biopharmaceutical manufacturing.

ESACT Early Career Research Grant

Issued by European Society for Animal Cell Technology · May 2022

Associated with Sanofi

ESACT UK Early Career Research Grant

Issued by ESACT UK · Jan 2020

Associated with University of Cambridge Selected recipe for a full grant to attend the annual ESACT UK meeting 2020 for scientific participation to disseminate work on applications of AI for cell culture process design and optimisation.

Global BioCommunity 2.0

Issued by Massachusetts Institute of Technology (USA) · Aug 2019

Associated with University of Cambridge Global and Community Synthetic Biology and Biological Systems Engineering (MIT Media Lab)

ESACT Early Career Research Award - 26th ESACT meeting 2019

Issued by European Society for Animal Cell Technology (ESACT, EU) · Apr 2019

Associated with UCL Selected recipe for a full grant to attend the international 26th ESACT meeting (Copenhagen, Denmark) for scientific participation and to disseminate current findings of doctoral research through oral presentation.

Helmsley Trust Fellowship

Issued by The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust (New York, USA) · Jul 2019

Associated with University of Cambridge Synthetic Biology (Cold Spring Harbour Laboratory, New York, USA)

BioProNET Early Career Research Award - BioProNET Annual Scientific Meeting

Issued by BioProNET UK , UK Research Councils (BBSRC) · Jul 2017

Associated with UCL Selected recipe for a full bursary to participate in the 4th Annual BIoProNET Science Meeting (Warwick, UK).

Leader of Tomorrow 2018 (Global)

Issued by University of Cambridge - Global Biotech Revolution (UK) · Apr 2018

The GapSummit is organised by Global Biotech Revolution (GBR) and held at the University of Cambridge (UK). 100 promising global young leaders in Biotechnology are carefully selected and invited to challenge ideas, grow professionally and connect with like minded future decision makers.

Young Leader of Biotechnology 2018 (LATAM)

Issued by AllBiotech - LATAM · Aug 2018

Associated with UCL The Allbiotech summit is organised by Allbiotech throughout all Latin America chapters. 100 promising young leaders and current leaders in the region for Biotechnology and Biosciences gather to challenge ideas, grow professionally and connect while understanding and identifying the potential and key areas of all sectors of Biotechnology in LATAM region.

ACS BIOT ESBES Honourable Mention - 1st International Biotech Design Competition

Issued by American Chemical Society (USA) & European Society of Biochemical Engineering Sciences (EU) · Oct 2017

Associated with UCL Second place finalist and honourable mention team (ETH Zurich, University of Delaware and University College London) for the design of a whole integrated continuous manufacturing process, from cell vial to formulated vial, for a cost effective biosimilar monoclonal antibody therapy.

BioProNET Early Career Research Award - BrisSynBio MBA

Issued by BioProNET UK , UK Research Councils (BBSRC) · Apr 2018

Associated with UCL Award to attend the BrisSynBio (University of Bristol,UK) and SynbiCITE (Imperial College London, UK) training programme in commercialisation and business development for synthetic biology and biotechnology business ventures.

Newton Fund Early Career Fellowship - Social Biotechnology

Issued by Chinese Academy of Sciences and British Council · Sep 2019

Associated with University of Cambridge Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (Beijing, China)

Young Entrepreneur Scheme Award (Biotechnology)

Issued by Nottingham University Business School - University College London · Oct 2018

Associated with UCL

Cambridge Entrepreneurship Award

Issued by Cambridge Judge Business School (UK) · Jul 2018

Associated with Cambridge Judge Business School Selected recipe to receive a scholarship for the Cambridge community to attend the Cambridge entrepreneurial programme for innovation and creation of business ventures in Life Sciences and High Tech.

Finalist Award - 'Voices of Tomorrow 2018' BioBusiness Competition

Issued by Global Biotech Revolution, University of Cambridge (UK) · Apr 2018

International finalist team (Princeton University, University of Virginia and University College London) during the BioBusiness competition at GapSummit 2018. The tech venture addressed current challenges in biologics discovery and manufacturing (R&D productivity) through a reverse engineering strategy for drug discovery for infectious diseases and epidemiological breakouts.

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