Mildred G. Jiménez-Rodríguez Email & Phone Number

London, England, United Kingdom

Deep Science Ventures is a venture creator, combining available scientific knowledge and founder-type scientists into high-impact ventures, to build a future where both humanity and the planet thrive. • Scoped opportunity areas for venture creation in N-based fertilizer production, soil health and marginal land restoration. • Recruited Founders in Residence (multidisciplinary founder-type scientists) for the creation of deeptech ventures in the fields of biomass conversion and desalination. • Supported founding teams to perform market analyses and build their business and financial models, and fundraising strategies up to series A. • Performed quarterly portfolio ratings and drove portfolio management to identify new seed stage investors and reposition company strategies towards series A. • Drove venture creation process from idea generation to incorporation of: (1) High Impact Agricultural Transplantation, and (2) Biomass Conversion for the Bioeconomy. • Led the creation and spinout of NanoWeave Ltd and New Water Labs Inc.: NanoWeave is pioneering biomaterials by transforming agricultural residues into high-performance, cost-effective mass-market textiles using cutting-edge nano-cellulose technology & New Water Labs makes exceedingly inexpensive water using a robust distillation technology to prevent global water scarcity.

Mexico

Disruptive technological innovations in agri-tech, climate solutions, and biotech to secure food systems, reverse climate change, and uplift vulnerable communities. lilliputtech.com - nanotechnology design platform for crop solar radiation protection leading to productivity growth in crops with reduced water and agrochemical inputs.

Mexico City, Mexico

Investment analyst for 2 investment-readiness programs: (1) Unilever - Innovations in Sustainability, and (2) Moody's - Innovation for Ecosystem Restoration. Main responsibilities included:• Identifyng a pipleine of 100+ startups that best fit the programs theses and recruiting participating startups.• Conducting interviews and diligence on semi-finalist companies and recommend (or not) for acceptance into the program.• Facilitating financial-related sessions of the program: Financials 101, Term Sheet Negotiations 101, Convertibles Sessions. • Conducting 1:1 financial check-ins with the cohort’s startups to support the development of their revenue model, unit economics analysis, financial model (projections for the next 3 to 5 years), and fundraise statement.

Lean impact investment fellowship focused on funding early-stage mexican companies in the food and agriculture sectors. Some of my main responsibilities include: • Identifying a pipeline of 100+ companies with ground-breaking technologies that contribute to food security in the primary sectors of agriculture, forestry, and fishing. • Reducing pipeline to a maximum of ten of the analyzed businesses for further due diligence. • Evaluate the selected promising socially responsible, for-profit businesses for potential investment of $50, 000 USD. • Make investment decision, lead negotiations with the selected company and finalize investment deal.

Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico

• Oversee the development of entrepreneurship-related opportunities to increase the impact of research projects. • Set research project objectives and manage desired outcomes within time and budget constrictions. • Design novel nanomaterials that could be employed as integral solutions for diverse passive sampling applications. • Coordinate research projects and science communication initiatives to ensure they are on track and that they contribute to the organization’s strategic initiatives. • Prioritize work streams according to available resources and stakeholders interests. • Aid in the attraction of external funds for research projects and collaborations with industry.

Business School, Campus Santa Fe

Development of educational material related to holistic marketing, optimization of supply chains, the development of omnichannel experiences and Big Data.

School Of Engineering And Sciences, Western Region

Conducted research on educational management and transformation of educational curricula in response to the impacts of the Fourth Industrial Revolution and the COVID-19 pandemic.

Consultancy project at the Innovation and Bioeconomy Office of IICA, where I worked on the planning and implementation of a regional-wide project to enhance the bioentrepreneurship ecosystem in Latin America and the Caribbean.

Latin American consortium of biomanufacturing laboratories. Based in Ciudad de Panama, Panama; San Jose, Costa Rica; and Ciudad de Guatemala, Guatemala. I coordinate partnerships and growth strategies.

Greater Boston Area

Research internship at the Molecular NanoSystems research group from the Division of Engineering in Medicine at Harvard Medical School, where I led projects focused on the manufacture of micro and nanosystems for drug/genetic material encapsulation, as well as nanocomposite formulations for therapies to tackle kidney and cardiac diseases. I worked under the supervision of Guillermo U. Ruiz-Esparza MD, PhD and Joseph V. Bonventre, MD, PhD.

Msc. In Nanotechnology, Materials Science

I carry out research for the development of a nano-structured membrane-based passive samplers to improve sampling procedures.

B.Eng. In Biotechnology, Minor In Bioprocess Engineering