Jonathan Badal
VP Strategy at comiXology, an Amazon company
TED Attendee
New York, New York, United StatesAbout Jonathan
Bio
VP Strategy - comiXology, an Amazon company
ComiXology is the leading platform for discovering, buying, and reading digital comic books and graphic novels. ComiXology had the top-grossing non-game iPad app in 2012 and 2013 and was acquired by Amazon in 2014.
Board Member - Genspace
Genspace is a nonprofit organization that operates the first-ever community biotechnology laboratory, a BSL-1 facility in Brooklyn, New York. We offer hands-on courses to the public, provide extracurricular experiences for students, and encourage scientific entrepreneurship in the fields of molecular and synthetic biology. Fast Company named Genspace the "#4 Most Innovative Company in Education".
Adviser / Investor - OpenTrons
OpenTrons is an open-source rapid prototyping platform for biotechnology bringing the digital fabrication workflow to the life-science lab. Their first product, the OT-One first personal liquid handling robot. It starts at $3000 and runs protocols from your web browser. Starting out as a project at Genspace, OpenTrons has subsequently been backed by SOSventures and Y Combinator