• Email

    kushagr.punyani@
    smileventurehub.com

  • Phone

    +46 72-229 62 15

Kush Punyani

Chief Business Officer

Kush is a serial entrepreneur within diagnostics, pharma and cleantech, with experience from business development, commercialisation, and product development.

Besides running a commercial venture studio, he has served in various capacities as CSO, CEO and board director in both VC-backed and stock-listed startups within life sciences and cleantech. Prior to venturing into entreprenurship, Kush pursued his doctoral research at NanoLund within lab-on-a-chip devices for diagnostics and labtech applications.

Expertise

  • Entrepreneurship within deeptech life science and cleantech industries
  • Business development and Alliance management
  • Innovation management
  • Diagnostics and IVD development
  • Certified board member (SE/DK)
  • R&D: Microfluidics, electrochemistry, biosensors, reproductive biology

Experience

  • 1 venture studio
  • 5+ deeptech startups, with 2 IPOs
  • 7+ years in Innovation, Medtech and IVD
  • 15+ years in life science

Education

Executive MBA (Leading Impact, EFL)

Doctoral Licentiate in Engineering, Microfluidics (LTH)
Master of Technology in Biotech

Nationality
Swedish

Fun fact
Enjoys traveling abroad and exploring international and regional cuisines.

 

Thomas Unt

Dep. CEO, SmiLe Venture Hub & CEO, SmiLe Inject Capital
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