Keith Crandell

Co-Founder & Managing Director at ARCH Venture Partners

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Biography

Keith Crandell is a co-founder and a Managing Director of ARCH Venture Partners, where his bio describes a focus on life science therapeutics, tools, devices and diagnostics along with specialty materials, electronics, instrumentation and photonics businesses. Before ARCH he worked at Hercules, Inc., a specialty chemical and polymer company. He is currently a director of 908 Devices, Twist Bioscience, Arbor Biotechnologies, Cytrellis Biosystems, Lightcast Discovery, UltraDx and Vizgen, and a board observer at AIRNA, Quantum Circuits and Slingshot Biosciences. He holds an M.B.A. from The University of Chicago, an M.S. in Chemistry from the University of Texas at Arlington and a B.S. in Chemistry and Mathematics from St. Lawrence University.

Education

Previous Experience

Notable Investments

908 Devices MASSTwist Bioscience TWSTArbor BiotechnologiesVizgenCytrellis BiosystemsLightcast DiscoveryUltraDxQuanterix QTRXAdesto TechnologiesNanophase Technologies

Board Seats

Career Timeline

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Worked at Hercules, Inc., a specialty chemical and polymer company, before ARCH.
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Co-founded ARCH Venture Partners and became a Managing Director.
2005
Joined the Entrepreneurship Advisory Board of the Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship at Chicago Booth.
2017
Joined the Advisory Council of the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering.

Sources & References

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