Michael Penn

Biotech Executive, Investor, Board Member, Startup Advisor, Author, Speaker

📍 United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 2 investments📅 5 years investing🗓 Last invested May 2021
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May 2021
Silicon Valley startup, Level 42 AI, Inc’s software-defined hardware captures and synchronizes traditionally discarded or unobserved multi-modal data streams to predict and quantify health state, from short 5-to-30 second data snippets, similar in principle to the music identification Shazam app. UNMET NEED: In addition to the ‘classic‘ COVID-19 illness, COVID-19-associated multi-system inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C) has recently emerged as a complicated and potentially fatal outcome resulting in school and workplace closures. The world needs a fast, accurate, non-invasive, affordable mass screening test for COVID-19; such a test should safely manage entry to workplaces, airplanes, schools, stadiums, theaters, mass transit center, ports-of-entry, malls and restaurants. Level 42 AI, Inc is conducting clinical studies to discover and validate COVID-19 biosignatures with Johns Hopkins School of Medicine (JHM) and University of California-San Francisco (UCSF). The mass screening technology has the potential to detect and screen individuals and patients with COVID-19 remotely, from a distance, using non-invasive, non-intrusive, and non-contact technology. Accurate and rapid COVID-19 mass screening is complementary to vaccine development and deployment. Level 42 AI, Inc’s COVID-19 biosignature is an AI algorithm that deploys state-of-the-art, proprietary domain-adaptable machine learning techniques to elucidate and differentiate early cellular and tissue mechano-transduction changes and the bodys immune response to SARS-CoV-2 infection. By combining and analyzing multiple synchronized data streams, Level 42 AI, Inc aims to unveil robust and distinct biosignatures for actionable insights on the symptoms and onset of COVID-19, MIS-C, asthma, COPD, cystic fibrosis, TB, pulmonary arterial hypertension, acute respiratory distress syndrome, carotid artery disease, coronary artery disease, congestive heart failure, pain, depression, more
Experience · 4 entries
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2021
Physician Advisor, Health Equity and Innovation
Sep 2021
The American Medical Association is the premier national organization providing timely, essential resources to empower physicians, residents and medical students to succeed at every phase of their medical lives. Physicians have entrusted the AMA to advance the art and science of medicine and the betterment of public health on behalf of patients for more than 170 years. For more information, visit ama-assn.org. For commenting policies, see our Code of Conduct: http://bit.ly/1aEMHr2
Investor
May 2021
Silicon Valley startup, Level 42 AI, Inc’s software-defined hardware captures and synchronizes traditionally discarded or unobserved multi-modal data streams to predict and quantify health state, from short 5-to-30 second data snippets, similar in principle to the music identification Shazam app. UNMET NEED: In addition to the ‘classic‘ COVID-19 illness, COVID-19-associated multi-system inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C) has recently emerged as a complicated and potentially fatal outcome resulting in school and workplace closures. The world needs a fast, accurate, non-invasive, affordable mass screening test for COVID-19; such a test should safely manage entry to workplaces, airplanes, schools, stadiums, theaters, mass transit center, ports-of-entry, malls and restaurants. Level 42 AI, Inc is conducting clinical studies to discover and validate COVID-19 biosignatures with Johns Hopkins School of Medicine (JHM) and University of California-San Francisco (UCSF). The mass screening technology has the potential to detect and screen individuals and patients with COVID-19 remotely, from a distance, using non-invasive, non-intrusive, and non-contact technology. Accurate and rapid COVID-19 mass screening is complementary to vaccine development and deployment. Level 42 AI, Inc’s COVID-19 biosignature is an AI algorithm that deploys state-of-the-art, proprietary domain-adaptable machine learning techniques to elucidate and differentiate early cellular and tissue mechano-transduction changes and the bodys immune response to SARS-CoV-2 infection. By combining and analyzing multiple synchronized data streams, Level 42 AI, Inc aims to unveil robust and distinct biosignatures for actionable insights on the symptoms and onset of COVID-19, MIS-C, asthma, COPD, cystic fibrosis, TB, pulmonary arterial hypertension, acute respiratory distress syndrome, carotid artery disease, coronary artery disease, congestive heart failure, pain, depression, more
Investor
Apr 2021
Sera Prognostics is a leading proteomic and bioinformatics company dedicated to improving the lives of women and babies through precision biomarker-based tests designed to enhance pregnancy care. Our vision is to deliver pivotal information to physicians early in pregnancy to help them to improve the health of their patients and reduce costs of healthcare delivery. The PreTRM® Test reports to a physician the individualized risk of premature birth, enabling earlier proactive interventions in patients with higher risk. Were also developing a robust pipeline of innovative tests focused on other complications of pregnancy, including preeclampsia, gestational diabetes, growth restriction, and others. Learn more about our values, culture, and open positions on our website.
2019
Founding Partner
Jan 2019
HEV is creating the future of healthcare investing by addressing the largely unmet and rapidly growing opportunity to serving the healthcare needs of diverse and underserved populations.