Shintaro Kaido

Shintaro holds a BS in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University and an MBA from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Shintaro is currently Director, Office of Technology Commercialization & New Ventures at Stevens Institute of Technology and works with faculty, staff and students to translate the results of scientific research into societal and commercial impact. Previously, Shintaro was Vice Provost for Innovation at Drexel University.

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Prior to leading innovation and entrepreneurship efforts at US institutions of higher education, Shintaro launched Oklahoma's first startup accelerators for i2E and led 14 investments which returned 1.53x @ 17.2% IRR. Shintaro also has operator experience as co-founder: Codesy (Techstars '18) and Synercon Technologies (acquired '19 by Dearborn Technologies). In 2022, Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf appointed Shintaro to the board of the Ben Franklin Technology Development Authority. BFTDA, on behalf of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, invests in regional venture capital funds as LP to stimulate technology-based economic development in the Commonwealth. Shintaro served on its investment committee from 2022 to 2024.

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As a nationally recognized thought leader in deep-tech commercialization, Shintaro serves on Activate’s (www.activate.org) Leadership Council to help empower scientists to become scientist entrepreneurs through fully supported 2 year fellowships. Activate Fellows and their 200+ startups have raised over $3.5 billion since 2015. Shintaro delivers the annual fellowship-wide seminar “Working With Your Tech Transfer Office - What Every Scientist Entrepreneur Should Know”. Shintaro has supported 45 Activate startups as advisor on techonomics, customer discovery, commercial agreements and intellectual property.

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Shintaro is a Certified Licensing Professional (CLP) and a Registered Tech Transfer Professional (RTTP). Shintaro resides in Wallingford, PA with his wife Janet, daughter Emma, two cats and six bicycles.

Shintaro is a member of Class 21.