Summary
Sacha Schermerhorn is a founder and CEO based in San Francisco who blends deep neuroscience research with product-led entrepreneurship across nine years of experience. He launched Babylon Biosciences after a string of successful side projects—one early product reached $160k MRR in its first month with 17.5k paying customers and 94% margins—demonstrating an uncommon ability to convert technical prototypes into scalable revenue. His academic pedigree includes co-authoring papers (one in Nature Neuroscience), NSF-GRFP and NIH fellowships, and research roles at NYU, UCL, Brown, and Michigan, giving him a rare fluency in both wet-lab science and computational modeling. He’s shipped consumer and developer-facing products, consulted for high-growth startups (including an App Store #1 widget and a YC company), and isn’t afraid to iterate quickly when product-market fit isn’t there. Privately minded about code (“A man is only as private as his repos”), he nevertheless leverages open engineering and data-driven growth to inform biotech strategy.
9 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Science - BS, Neural Science, Minor in Computer Science and Mathematics, Bachelor of Science - BS, Neural Science, Minor in Computer Science and Mathematics at New York University
San Francisco Day School
High School Diploma, with Honors, High School Diploma, with Honors at Drew School
English, Spanish