Hirak Parikh Ph.D

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Biography

Dr. Hirak Parikh serves as Principal, Venture Investments at Johnson & Johnson Innovation - JJDC. He serves as Board Member at TECLens. He serves as Board Member at FlexDex Surgical. He joined the JJDC team in 2021 and is based out of the Boston Innovation Center in Cambridge, MA. He initiates and manages equity investments across MedTech in East North America. In addition to serving on several boards of our portfolio companies, he is very active in the local venture ecosystem. Previous to the role at JJDC, he was the Fund Manager for the Michigan Biomedical Venture Fund, a seed stage fund since its inception in 2016. In this role, he invested in more than a dozen life-sciences start-up companies across multiple categories: therapeutics, devices, diagnostics, and health IT/digital technologies. He held board positions in some of his portfolio companies. He also spent a year as a Venture Partner with Augment Ventures, which invests in software, smart hardware, and industrial tech companies.Before the University of Michigan, he was Principal Scientist and Director of US Operations for The Neuromarketing Labs - a start-up based in Germany. His previous background is in neuroscience research and product development. He received a PhD from the University of Michigan in Biomedical Engineering, Master's degrees both in Electrical Engineering and Biomedical Engineering also at the University of Michigan. He received a Bachelor of Engineering in Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering from the University of Pune