Author Archives: Kevin Pojasek

This blog was written by Kevin Pojasek, CEO at Quartet and Atlas EIR, as part of the “From the Trenches” feature of LifeSciVC. Therapeutic areas and modalities regularly fall in and out fashion usually when promising scientific approaches run aground in

This blog was written by Kevin Pojasek, co-founder and Acting CEO of Quartet Medicine and Atlas EIR, as part of the “From the Trenches” feature of LifeSciVC. “Most of the smartest people work somewhere else.” The famous Bill Joy quote, often

This blog was written by Kevin Pojasek, Founder and acting CEO of Quartet Medicine, as part of the “From the Trenches” feature of LifeSciVC. A favorite quote from the Jazz Age king that nicely captures life as a biotech entrepreneur.  Breaking

This blog was written by Kevin Pojasek, co-founder, President, and acting CEO of Quartet Medicine, as part of the “From the Trenches” feature of LifeSciVC.   Addressing unmet need in chronic pain In the mid-1990’s, the American Pain Society and the Veterans

In early 2013, I enlisted as an entrepreneur-in-residence (EIR) with the Atlas Venture life science investment team as the firm focused on a seed-led investing strategy as a core tenant of Fund IX (here).  I viewed it as a great

Doing more with less, hanging on to fight the next fight, putting out fires on multiple fronts are all de rigueur here at the Atlas Venture NewCo factory (aptly coined by brother-in-arms, @michael_gilman).  Our seed model (here, here) focuses on