Hannes Holste
Director, Life Science Investments & Data Science
Los Angeles Metropolitan Area United States
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Top SchoolHannes Holste is a director-level investor and data scientist who has spent 11 years financing and building technology-driven life science companies across the US, Europe, and Asia. At Thiel Capital he blends deep technical fluency in biomedicine and machine learning with strategic investing, supporting portfolio leaders from computational peptide therapeutics to FDA‑breakthrough brain‑computer interfaces. He sits on boards of clinical and AI-first biotech firms (Peptilogics, Ataraxis AI, Blackrock Neurotech) and has operational roots as a biomedical informatics scientist and software engineer, which helps him translate research breakthroughs into scalable products. Fluent in Mandarin and experienced across cross-border markets, he uniquely navigates diverse regulatory and commercialization landscapes. Known for pairing hands‑on data science with venture judgment, he focuses on projects that accelerate discovery through novel algorithms and purpose‑built compute.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, San DiegoMandarin Chinese & Culture (NDO), Mandarin Chinese & Culture (NDO) at Peking UniversityBilingual International Abitur Diploma, Bilingual International Abitur Diploma at German Swiss International School | 德瑞國際學校
German, Chinese, Chinese, Spanish
Github Skills (62)
microbiology10
effort10
microbiome10
bioinformatics10
computational-biology10
jupyter9
data-science9
multidimensional9
ecology9
notebook9
python9
scikit9
ipython9
bsd9
data-structures9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
biocore/mds-approximations
May 2016 - Oct 2019
Multidimensional scaling algorithms for microbiology-ecology datasets.
Contributions:82 commits, 34 PRs, 44 pushes in 3 years 4 months
multidimensionalscaling-algorithmsmultidimensional-scalingdatasetsecology
HannesHolste/PCQueue-Android-App
Dec 2015 - Jul 2020
Contributions:1 push, 9 branches, 3 tags in 4 years 7 months
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