Gunnar Schaefer
Angel Investor at Institute for the Global Entrepreneur UC San Diego
San Diego, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolGunnar Schaefer is a founder-turned-angel investor and strategic advisor with 15+ years in scientific and computational environments and over a decade building healthcare-focused software products. As co-founder and founding CTO of Flywheel, he led backend architecture, product management, and customer-facing growth for an enterprise SaaS platform that scaled biomedical imaging workflows for AI and regulated research. Gunnar blends deep technical rigor—from building research-grade data management systems at Stanford to cloud-scale biomedical platforms—with hands-on commercial experience in sales, partnerships, and fundraising. He now advises and invests across digital health, medtech, and imaging startups, mentors Japanese founders on U.S. market entry, and helps early-stage teams translate clinical data into recurring-revenue products. Notably, his early work on open scientific data management (NIMS) helped elevate Stanford imaging facilities into world-class research hubs.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Diplom-Ingenieur (Master of Science) Computer Engineering, Diplom-Ingenieur (Master of Science) Computer Engineering at Kiel UniversityMathematics and Computer Science, Mathematics and Computer Science at Virginia Wesleyan University
English, German
Github Skills (46)
flywheel10
api9
exchange9
rest-api8
restful8
leaderboard8
rest8
cryptocurrency8
writers8
digital-humanities8
restful-api8
mls7
crowd7
sdk5
transparency5
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
scitran/reaper
Apr 2017 - Jul 2017
Contributions:36 commits, 34 PRs, 286 pushes in 3 months
poldracklab/bids-core
Feb 2016 - Dec 2023
Contributions:2 PRs, 2 pushes, 8 branches in 7 years 10 months
apipythonrestfulrest-apirestful-api
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