Successfully raising more than $200 million, Apple Jobs' son founded Yosemite Venture Capital: targeting Cancer treatment
CTOnews.com, August 2 (Xinhua)-- Reed Jobs, son of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, recently founded Yosemite, a venture capital company that has successfully raised more than $200 million (CTOnews.com Note: about 1.43 billion yuan), mainly investing in cancer treatment.
Photo Source: Emerson Collective Reid Jobs is 31 years old. "Reid" is named after the national park where the couple married.
The venture capital firm has so far raised $200 million from Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, Rockefeller University and MIT.
"when I was in Stanford, my father died of cancer," Reed Jobs said. I went to pre-med because I really wanted to be a doctor who could save people. "
The organization is a derivative of Emerson Collective, a charity founded by Steve Jobs' wife, Lauren Powell Jobs. Before founding Yosemite, Reid served as the organization's general manager of health.