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Alex Colville

Enigma · DISC type cid
General Partner at age1
📍 San Francisco, California, United States

Alex Colville is the co-founder and General Partner at age1, a firm dedicated to funding early-stage biotech companies focused on extending healthy human lifespans. With a PhD in Genetics from Stanford University, he leverages his deep scientific background to invest in moonshot ideas within the longevity field.

He is deeply motivated by personal experience, particularly his mothers battle with liver disease, which drives his passion for solving organ shortages and developing new therapies. This personal connection fuels his professional mission to give people agency over their health and longevity.

His work is directly inspired by his mothers struggle to get a liver transplant, shaping his focus on accelerating medical breakthroughs.

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Experience
8 Years
Current Role
General Partner
Location
San Francisco, California, United States
Personality Overview

How Alex shows up

Persuasive & Assertive
Friendly Yet Blunt
Hard To Convince

They are likely to ask many questions and look heavily for supporting proof as well as information. They can sound friendly and charming but can quickly change gears to become inquisitive and probing They are generally strong communicators and are not easy to convince.

Priorities

Topics Alex cares about

Longevity Biotech
As co-founder of age1, his primary professional mission is to fund and catalyze the earliest-stage companies working on extending healthy lifespans.
Tackling Fibrotic Diseases
He has a stated interest in finding better therapies for fibrosis, which he calls "aging's silent killer, " affecting organs like the kidney, liver, and lungs.
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Career

Work history

1-2023
General Partner
age1
1-2022 - 11-2022
Postdoctoral Scholar
Stanford University
10-2021 - 1-2023
Investment Manager
Starbloom Capital
10-2021 - 1-2023
Founding Chief of Staff
Amaranth Foundation
2-2020 - 5-2021
Business Development Consultant
Maze Therapeutics
In the press

Media appearances

Catalyzing moonshots in longevity biotech (Alex Colville, Age1). Featured in Apple Podcasts
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Making people live longer - exploring longevity with Alex from Age1. Featured in Startup Grind
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Education
2016 - 2021
PhD
Stanford University
2011 - 2015
Bachelor of Science (B.S.)
Northeastern University
Social presence
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Behavioral profile

DISC profile (public)

c

Calculativeness (C)

Calculativeness (C) reflects the degree to which a person is likely to be cautious, systematic and analytical. Those scoring high tend to emphasise quality and accuracy.

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