Jeff Chu, PhD, Co-Founder and Managing Partner, Features Capital;
Entrepreneur in Residence at Roux Institute, Northeastern University;
Entrepreneur in Residence, Magnuson Center for Entrepreneurship at Dartmouth
About: Jeff Chu is a Co-Founder and serves as a Managing Partner at Features Capital. He is a seasoned medical device developer and technologist. He is directly responsible for the creation and development of nascent technologies from ideation through transfer to manufacturing for early-stage and global medical device companies. Over 21 years as CTO and Partner of Simbex, he delivered multiple products to market based on a wide spectrum of technologies in both the medical device and consumer marketplaces, from bench to bedside. His deep experience in software, hardware, and algorithm development coupled with his biomechanical systems expertise helps realize innovative solutions that seamlessly integrate with the consumer. He has served as Principal Investigator on several federally funded research innovation programs from both the NIH and the Department of Defense in the areas of rehabilitation, blast, and impact biomechanics. He has been an active angel and LP investor. He is a Corporator of Mascoma Bank, a Founding Steering Committee Member of the MedTech Collaborative, and a Core Director for the Translational Rehab Engineering Advances and the New England Pediatric Device Consortium. His work has received national recognition from Time Magazine, Sybase, Edison Awards, and Computerworlds. Before Simbex, he worked as an advanced concepts consultant for several companies in the sporting goods industry and taught graduate courses in the areas of clinical biomechanics and computer modeling. He holds 8 patents, with 6 patents pending. He received his BS and MS in Biomechanics from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.