Diego Belmar
Chief Strategy Officer
Santiago, Santiago Metropolitan Region, Chile
Summary
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Top SchoolDiego Belmar is a biotech and innovation strategist with over a decade of hands-on experience building science-driven ventures across Latin America, currently serving as Chief Strategy Officer at Done Properly to scale sustainable bio-processed ingredients for the global food industry. He has co-founded PhageLab—which achieved commercial distribution via Bayer Animal Health—and helped raise more than USD $35M while advising and mentoring 25+ startups, bridging lab innovation to market. Diego blends technical training in biotechnology and microbiology with business and industrial engineering education, giving him a rare fluency in technology transfer, commercialization, and corporate strategy. He routinely advises accelerators and innovation hubs (HubTec, Centro de Innovación UC, The Ganesha Lab), bringing pragmatic mentorship that accelerates fundraising and go-to-market execution. Based in Santiago, he combines entrepreneurial grit and ecosystem-building instincts with a passion for making science materially sustainable in foodtech and biotech. A self-described “biotech entrepreneur and geek,” he often bridges formal mentorship with on-the-ground founding experience, making him a pragmatic collaborator for high-impact projects.
10 years of coding experience
Programa COMPITE +1000, Innovación y Emprendimiento, Programa COMPITE +1000, Innovación y Emprendimiento at Universidad Adolfo IbáñezDiplomado, Desarrollo y Gestión de la Innovación, Diplomado, Desarrollo y Gestión de la Innovación at Pontificia Universidad Católica de ChileIngeniero en Biotecnología, Microbiology, General, Ingeniero en Biotecnología, Microbiology, General at Universidad Nacional Andrés BelloFood + Health Entrepreneurship Academy, Food + Health Entrepreneurship Academy at UC Davis
English, Spanish
Github Skills (66)
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Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
diegoscl/diego-web
May 2019 - Jul 2022
👨💻Mi único y espectacular sitio web personal.
Contributions:86 commits, 2 PRs, 87 pushes in 3 years 2 months
reactsitiojavascriptweb-personaltypescript
bioemprendedorcl/bioemprendedor.cl
Jun 2018 - May 2020
🍕 Un espacio de contenido y experiencias para bioemprendedores.
Contributions:4 PRs, 319 pushes, 8 branches in 1 year 11 months
experienciasjavascripttypescriptcontenido
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