Ed Kania
Director/Board Member at TRANSMEDICS GROUP, INC.
Net worth: 27 M $ as of 2024-04-29
Profile
Ed M.
Kania is the founder of Flagship Pioneering, which was founded in 1999.
He is also the founder of Health Data Analytics Institute, Inc. Mr. Kania's current job titles include Chairman at Vyriad, Inc., Chairman & Managing Partner at Farfield Partners, Director at EcoSense Lighting, Inc., Director at G6 Capital Management LLC, Director at DataCore Software Corp., Director at TransMedics, Inc., Director at Massachusetts Biotechnology Council, Independent Director at TransMedics Group, Inc., and Director at Korrus, Inc. Mr. Kania's former job titles include Chairman at VisEn Medical, Inc., Co-Chairman at Common Impact, Inc., Director at Aspect Medical Systems, Inc., Director at EXACT Sciences Corp., Director at Epitome Biosystems, Inc., Independent Director at Acceleron Pharma, Inc., Director at MedidaMetrics, Inc., Director at INTIO LLC, Director at Interactive Supercomputing, Inc., Director at Pangea DiamondFields Plc, Director at Visterra, Inc., Director at TARIS BioMedical LLC, Independent Director at Selecta Biosciences, Inc., Director at Nanostream, Inc., Director at Oasys Water, Inc., Director at Tarveda Therapeutics, Inc., Managing Partner at One Liberty Ventures, General Partner at Oneliberty Ventures Inc., and Research Associate at Harvard Business School.
Mr. Kania's education includes an undergraduate degree from Dartmouth College in 1979 and an MBA from Harvard Business School in 1982.
Known holdings in public companies
Company | Date | Number of shares | Valuation | Valuation date |
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TRANSMEDICS GROUP, INC.
0.93% | 2024-05-22 | 304,818 ( 0.93% ) | 27 M $ | 2024-04-29 |
Ed Kania active positions
Companies | Position | Start |
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TRANSMEDICS GROUP, INC. | Director/Board Member | 2002-12-31 |
Flagship Pioneering
Flagship Pioneering Investment ManagersFinance Flagship Pioneering (Flagship Pioneering) is a venture capital firm founded in 1982 by Ed M Kania and Noubar B Afeyan. The firm is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts. | Founder | 2010-07-26 |
Health Data Analytics Institute LLC
Health Data Analytics Institute LLC Internet Software/ServicesTechnology Services Health Data Analytics Institute LLC operates a platform for healthcare data and connections. The private company is based in Dedham, MA. The company was founded by Kenneth Alan Froot, Ed M. Kania, Nassib G. Chamoun. Nassib G. Chamoun has been the CEO since incorporation. | Founder | - |
Farfield Partners
Farfield Partners Finance/Rental/LeasingFinance Farfield Partners is an American company that issues asset-backed, mortgage-backed, and structured finance securities. The private company is based in Cambridge. | Chairman | 2018-12-31 |
Vyriad, Inc.
Vyriad, Inc. Pharmaceuticals: MajorHealth Technology Vyriad, Inc. manufactures pharmaceutical products for cancer. Its technology include pipeline, non-invasive imaging, and oncolytic vaccine development. The company was founded by Stephen J. Russell, Glen Barber, Shruthi Naik, Kah Whye Peng, and Mark Federspiel in 2016 and is headquartered in Rochester, MN. | Chairman | - |
G6 Capital Management LLC
G6 Capital Management LLC Investment ManagersFinance G6 Capital Management LLC operates as an investment advisory firm. It specializes in the development and deployment of novel investment solutions for private clients. The company was founded by Nassib G. Chamoun in 2012 and is headquartered in Dedham, MA. | Director/Board Member | - |
Massachusetts Biotechnology Council
Massachusetts Biotechnology Council Miscellaneous Commercial ServicesCommercial Services Massachusetts Biotechnology Council is a premier life sciences and healthcare hub with over 1,600 members dedicated to preventing, treating, and curing diseases through transformative science and technology. The non-profit company is based in Cambridge, MA. MassBio works to advance policy and promote education while providing member programs, events, industry information, and services. The company's mission is to advance Massachusetts' leadership in the life sciences to grow the industry, add value to the healthcare system, and improve patient lives. Founded in 1985 by James P. Sherblom, the CEO is Kendalle Burlin O'Connell. | Director/Board Member | - |
EcoSense Lighting, Inc.
EcoSense Lighting, Inc. Electrical ProductsProducer Manufacturing EcoSense Lighting, Inc. provides light-emitting diode (LED) solutions for the commercial and residential applications. Its products include Rise, TROV, Slime Cove, Eria, and LDCM 0-10 Module. The company was founded by George G. Mueller in 2008 and is headquartered in Los Angeles, CA. | Director/Board Member | - |
DataCore Software Corp.
DataCore Software Corp. Packaged SoftwareTechnology Services DataCore Software Corp. develops storage networking software solutions. Its SANsymphony-V is DataCore?s flagship storage virtualization solution maximizes information technology infrastructure performance, availability and utilization by virtualizing storage hardware. The company?s storage virtualization software empowers organizations to seamlessly manage and scale their data storage architectures, delivering massive performance gains at a fraction of the cost of solutions offered by legacy storage hardware vendors. DataCore Software was founded by Ziya A. Aral, George S. Teixeira, Roni J. Putra, Timothy J. Logan, Bettye Grant and John Bocskor on February 4, 1998 and is headquartered in Fort Lauderdale, FL. | Director/Board Member | - |
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Training of Ed Kania
Dartmouth College | Undergraduate Degree |
Harvard Business School | Masters Business Admin |
Experiences
Positions held
Connections
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1st degree companies
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Members of the board
Executives
Linked companies
Listed companies | 2 |
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EXACT SCIENCES CORPORATION | Health Technology |
TRANSMEDICS GROUP, INC. | Health Technology |
Private companies | 27 |
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Aspect Medical Systems, Inc.
Aspect Medical Systems, Inc. Medical SpecialtiesHealth Technology Aspect Medical Systems, Inc. developed and manufactured anesthesia monitoring system that was called Bispectral (BIS) system. The company was founded in 1987 and was headquartered in Norwood, MA. | Health Technology |
Epitome Biosystems, Inc.
Epitome Biosystems, Inc. BiotechnologyHealth Technology Epitome Biosystems was founded in 2004 by experts in the field of proteomic analysis. Backed by Flagship Ventures in Cambridge, MA, and with an outstanding Scientific Advisory Board, Epitome is set to become a world leader in multiplex protein analysis | Health Technology |
Acceleron Pharma, Inc.
Acceleron Pharma, Inc. BiotechnologyHealth Technology Acceleron Pharma, Inc. is a biopharmaceutical company, which engages in the discovery, development and commercialization of therapeutics to treat serious and rare diseases. Its product candidates include Luspatercept, designed to patients with chronic anemia associated within a wide range of blood diseases; ACE-083, designed for the treatment of focal muscle disorders; and Sotatercept, designed to treat pulmonary arterial hypertension. The company was founded by John L. Knopf and Thomas P. Maniatis on June 13, 2003 and is headquartered in Rahway, NJ. | Health Technology |
MedidaMetrics, Inc.
MedidaMetrics, Inc. Packaged SoftwareTechnology Services MedidaMetrics, Inc. provides software solutions for health care industry. The firm specializes information technology, finance for healthcare, cost management for healthcare and cost comparison for facilities. The company also offers implementation, training, data services and management consulting services. MedidaMetrics was founded by Ilan Mintz, Joseph Bolless, Achi Ludomirsky and Avihu Ben-Nun in 1999 and is headquartered in Rockville, MD. | Technology Services |
INTIO LLC
INTIO LLC Packaged SoftwareTechnology Services INTIO LLC develops software tools for planning, image guidance and image analysis for the interventional oncology markets. It provides all interventional oncologic therapies including surgery, ablation, chemoembolization, radioembolization as well as palliation for pain. The firm has solutions which aid the physician plan, treat and assess the effectiveness of the particular therapy used to treat patient's cancer. The company's products include ClearStart SVM, SyncVIEW and ClearView. INTIO was founded by Morgan W. Nields in 2005 and is headquartered in Broomfield, CO. | Technology Services |
Interactive Supercomputing, Inc.
Interactive Supercomputing, Inc. Packaged SoftwareTechnology Services Interactive Supercomputing, Inc. provides software solutions. It develops Star-P, a software platform that delivers interactive parallel computing power to desktops. The company also offers a range of security, intelligence, manufacturing, energy, biomedical, financial and scientific research applications, ISC enabled faster prototyping, iteration and deployment of large-scale solution services. It was founded by Cornelius Peterson in 2004 and is headquartered in Waltham, MA. | Technology Services |
VisEn Medical, Inc.
VisEn Medical, Inc. Medical/Nursing ServicesHealth Services VisEn's in vivo fluorescence imaging technologies, including its Fluorescence Agent Portfolio and its Fluorescence Molecular Tomographic (FMTTM) Imaging Systems provide robust fluorescence molecular imaging performance in identifying, characterizing and quantifying ranges of disease biomarkers and therapeutic efficacy in vivo. VisEn's FMT systems and agents are used by leading research institutions and pharmaceutical companies in applications including cancer research, inflammation, cardiovascular, skeletal and pulmonary disease. The company also works with large pharmaceutical partners to design ranges of tailored molecular imaging agents and applications that are designed to their specific pre-clinical and clinical research areas. | Health Services |
Pangea DiamondFields Plc | Consumer Durables |
Visterra, Inc.
Visterra, Inc. Pharmaceuticals: MajorHealth Technology Visterra, Inc. Is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company, which engages in the development and commercialization of antibody-based therapies for kidney diseases, and other chronic diseases. It focuses on its research technology platform, HIEROTOPE technology. The company was founded by Alan L. Crane, Kevin J. Bitterman and Ram Sasisekharan on December 20, 2007 and is headquartered in Waltham, MA. | Health Technology |
TARIS BioMedical LLC
TARIS BioMedical LLC Pharmaceuticals: MajorHealth Technology TARIS BioMedical LLC operates as a clinical-stage pharmaceutical company. It specializes in urology, continuous local dosing, bladder diseases, oncology, voiding dysfunction. The company was founded by Robert S. Langer Jr., Christine Bunt, and Michael J. Cima in 2008 and is headquartered in Lexington, MA. | Health Technology |
Selecta Biosciences, Inc.
Selecta Biosciences, Inc. BiotechnologyHealth Technology Selecta Biosciences, Inc. is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company, which engages in the research and development of nanoparticle immunomodulatory drugs for the treatment and prevention of human diseases. Its portfolio includes pipeline, autoimmune, gene therapy, and biologic therapy. The company was founded by Omid C. Farokhzad, Robert S. Langer Jr., and Ulrich von Andrian on December 10, 2007 and is headquartered in Watertown, MA. | Health Technology |
EcoSense Lighting, Inc.
EcoSense Lighting, Inc. Electrical ProductsProducer Manufacturing EcoSense Lighting, Inc. provides light-emitting diode (LED) solutions for the commercial and residential applications. Its products include Rise, TROV, Slime Cove, Eria, and LDCM 0-10 Module. The company was founded by George G. Mueller in 2008 and is headquartered in Los Angeles, CA. | Producer Manufacturing |
G6 Capital Management LLC
G6 Capital Management LLC Investment ManagersFinance G6 Capital Management LLC operates as an investment advisory firm. It specializes in the development and deployment of novel investment solutions for private clients. The company was founded by Nassib G. Chamoun in 2012 and is headquartered in Dedham, MA. | Finance |
Nanostream, Inc.
Nanostream, Inc. BiotechnologyHealth Technology Nanostream, Inc. provides microfluidic analytical systems. The company develops microfluidic systems to automate routine laboratory procedures that are critical to research productivity. It furnishes the miniaturized plumbing critical to the future of pharmaceutical sciences. Nanostream was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Pasadena, CA. | Health Technology |
Flagship Pioneering
Flagship Pioneering Investment ManagersFinance Flagship Pioneering (Flagship Pioneering) is a venture capital firm founded in 1982 by Ed M Kania and Noubar B Afeyan. The firm is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts. | Finance |
DataCore Software Corp.
DataCore Software Corp. Packaged SoftwareTechnology Services DataCore Software Corp. develops storage networking software solutions. Its SANsymphony-V is DataCore?s flagship storage virtualization solution maximizes information technology infrastructure performance, availability and utilization by virtualizing storage hardware. The company?s storage virtualization software empowers organizations to seamlessly manage and scale their data storage architectures, delivering massive performance gains at a fraction of the cost of solutions offered by legacy storage hardware vendors. DataCore Software was founded by Ziya A. Aral, George S. Teixeira, Roni J. Putra, Timothy J. Logan, Bettye Grant and John Bocskor on February 4, 1998 and is headquartered in Fort Lauderdale, FL. | Technology Services |
TransMedics, Inc.
TransMedics, Inc. Medical SpecialtiesHealth Technology TransMedics, Inc. manufactures and develops medical devices. It offers a portable warm blood perfusion system designed to maintain organs in a functioning state outside the human body during transport from organ donor to recipient. The firm’s products are used in heart, lung, liver, and kidney transplants. The company was founded by Waleed H. Hassanein in August 1998 and is headquartered in Andover, MA. | Health Technology |
One Liberty Ventures | Finance |
Massachusetts Biotechnology Council
Massachusetts Biotechnology Council Miscellaneous Commercial ServicesCommercial Services Massachusetts Biotechnology Council is a premier life sciences and healthcare hub with over 1,600 members dedicated to preventing, treating, and curing diseases through transformative science and technology. The non-profit company is based in Cambridge, MA. MassBio works to advance policy and promote education while providing member programs, events, industry information, and services. The company's mission is to advance Massachusetts' leadership in the life sciences to grow the industry, add value to the healthcare system, and improve patient lives. Founded in 1985 by James P. Sherblom, the CEO is Kendalle Burlin O'Connell. | Commercial Services |
Oneliberty Ventures Inc. | |
Tarveda Therapeutics, Inc.
Tarveda Therapeutics, Inc. BiotechnologyHealth Technology Tarveda Therapeutics, Inc. discovers and develops cancer therapeutics and drugs. Its proprietary technology, assets and expertise are built around an integrative research and development process that brings together new-molecule drug discovery engine and patented nanoparticle engineering platform. The company was founded by Omid C. Farokhzad, Stephen J. Lippard and Robert S. Langer Jr., in 2011 and is headquartered in Watertown, MA. | Health Technology |
Common Impact, Inc.
Common Impact, Inc. Investment Trusts/Mutual FundsMiscellaneous Common Impact, Inc. is a national nonprofit organization that partners with Fortune 500 companies and leading nonprofit organizations to create transformational change through skills-based volunteering. Common Impact was founded in 2000 and is based in Boston, MA. The non-profit company's mission is to build a society in which individuals and businesses invest their unique talents towards a shared purpose of strengthening local communities. | Miscellaneous |
Vyriad, Inc.
Vyriad, Inc. Pharmaceuticals: MajorHealth Technology Vyriad, Inc. manufactures pharmaceutical products for cancer. Its technology include pipeline, non-invasive imaging, and oncolytic vaccine development. The company was founded by Stephen J. Russell, Glen Barber, Shruthi Naik, Kah Whye Peng, and Mark Federspiel in 2016 and is headquartered in Rochester, MN. | Health Technology |
Health Data Analytics Institute LLC
Health Data Analytics Institute LLC Internet Software/ServicesTechnology Services Health Data Analytics Institute LLC operates a platform for healthcare data and connections. The private company is based in Dedham, MA. The company was founded by Kenneth Alan Froot, Ed M. Kania, Nassib G. Chamoun. Nassib G. Chamoun has been the CEO since incorporation. | Technology Services |
Farfield Partners
Farfield Partners Finance/Rental/LeasingFinance Farfield Partners is an American company that issues asset-backed, mortgage-backed, and structured finance securities. The private company is based in Cambridge. | Finance |
Korrus, Inc.
Korrus, Inc. Miscellaneous Commercial ServicesCommercial Services Part of MKD Electric, Inc., Korrus, Inc. develops technology solutions in light health for the healthcare industry. The private company is based in Los Angeles, CA. The CEO of the company is Mark Reynoso. | Commercial Services |
Oasys Water, Inc.
Oasys Water, Inc. Environmental ServicesIndustrial Services Oasys Water, Inc. provides desalination and water-treatment technologies for industrial markets. Its technology is used to treat industrial wastewater, such as waste from power plants and produced water from exploration and production activities. The company was founded by Robert McGinnis and Aaron H. Mandell on June 01, 2008 and is headquartered in Boston, MA. | Industrial Services |
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