David Berry (inventor)
David Berry (born February 10, 1978) is an American entrepreneur and business executive. He has co-founded numerous companies in life sciences, technology, and sustainability, including Seres Therapeutics, Indigo Agriculture, and Axcella Health. Early life and education. Berry was born in 1978. He graduated Hackley School in Tarrytown, NY in 1996. Berry graduated with a S.B. Phi Beta Kappa and Sigma Xi from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2000. He earned his M.D. from Harvard Medical School and his PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with Robert Langer and Ram Sasisekharan. Valo Health. Berry founded  Valo Health in 2019. Flagship Pioneering. Berry joined Flagship Pioneering in 2005, a Cambridge, Massachusetts based venture capital firm that creates and funds early-stage start-ups addressing unmet needs in healthcare and sustainability where he served as a general partner. Seres Therapeutics. In 2012, Berry founded Seres Therapeutics, which pioneered microbiome therapeutics. The company raised over $130M as a private company, including a $65M investment from Nestle Health Sciences. Seres publicly listed on the Nasdaq under the symbol MCRB in June 2015, raising $134M. Seres signed a partnership valued at $2B with Nestle  Health Sciences in early 2016. Indigo Agriculture. In 2014, Berry founded Indigo to create seed treatments that optimize the health of a plant to increase yield. Axcella Health. In 2009, Berry founded Axcella Health, which is pioneering defined a new approach to treating complex diseases and supporting health using Endogenous Metabolic Modulators (EMMs) as a new therapeutic product class. Evelo Biosciences. In 2014, Berry founded Evelo Biosciences. Joule Unlimited. In 2007, Berry founded Joule Unlimited. In March 2010 and again in March 2011, Joule was named by Technology Review as one of the 50 Most Innovative Companies. Joule was named  as one of the 10 most important emerging technologies in 2011. Other affiliations. Berry is a founding member of the Leadership Council of the United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network, which authored the Sustainable Development Goals. The Sustainable Development Goals contains 17 goals and 169 targets agreed to by 193 countries at the United Nations to foster sustainable development with a 2030 target. Berry is a trustee at the Hackley School, and was previously a member of the corporation of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, its board, from 2006-2011. David has also served as a board member of the  Juventas New Music Ensemble. and of the Boston Philharmonic Orchestra. Honors. Berry was selected as a 2014 Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum. He was named as the Innovator of the Year in 2007 by the MIT Technology Review TR35 list of one of the top 35 innovators in the world under the age of 35 for his creation of LS9. Additionally Berry has been recognized by the US State Department as one of 12 Innovators Helping Reshape Reality.