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Hive Curation Team Profile:
Zen Chu
Founder, Accelerated Medical Ventures; EIR for Martin Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship; Founder H@ckingMedicine @ MIT
2014
Zen Chu believes that engineers will create the data, systems and products to help medicine scale to serve more patients with higher quality at lower cost. He runs Accelerated Medical Ventures, serving as cofounder and first investor for a few medical and software companies. As Healthcare Entrepreneur-In-Residence at MIT, Zen co-directs MIT/HST's Healthcare Ventures graduate course and oversees its HackingMedicine initiatives.

Alongside four world-renowned MIT biomaterials professors, Zen co-founded and served as CEO for 3D-Matrix Medical Inc., a venture-backed MIT regenerative medicine company with a successful IPO in 2011 and products helping patients. He has managed and led new ventures for Harvard Medical School, Wyss Institute, NetVentures and Hewlett-Packard.

Zen earned a BS in biomedical/electrical engineering from SMU and a Masters of Public & Private Management from Yale University. He's married to a serial software entrepreneur and they are raising three aspiring entrepreneurs.