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Fannin Innovation Studio

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Fannin Innovation Studio commercializes life science innovation from Texas Medical Center.

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01.01.2005

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The company provides startups with office space, seed capital, and resources, and partners with promising life science innovators to co-found and actively manage startup companies. Fannin works with top-tier higher education institutions to recruit aspiring entrepreneurs for its apprenticeship program, which provides on-the-job training to lead portfolio companies from innovation to commercialization. The company seeks to invest in early and later-stage rounds based in Texas, providing a diversified range of capital sources to fund portfolio companies' technologies. Fannin has successfully validated its business model over the last seven years and is scaling up to develop another 15-20 portfolio companies in the next 3-5 years.
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Leo Linbeck III
Leo Linbeck III

Leo Linbeck III

Leo Linbeck III is the Chairman and Founder of the Fannin Innovation Studio. Leo is also President and CEO of the Aquinas Companies, LLC, which sponsored Fannin for five years to validate its model before bringing in outside investors for scale-up. Leo graduated from the University of Notre Dame with both Civil Engineering and Liberal Arts degrees and received a Master’s in Structural Engineering from the University of Texas. He earned his MBA from the Stanford University Graduate School of Business, graduating as the only student in its history to be both Valedictorian and winner of the Arbuckle Award (the person voted by his classmates to have made the greatest contribution to the school). Additionally, Leo teaches MBAs at Stanford’s Graduate School of Business where he serves as a Lecturer and is a former adjunct professor at Rice University’s Jones Graduate School of Business. Leo is also on the boards of several educational, community, and nonprofit organizations.

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