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4 unusual facts about Kasian Franks


Kasian Franks

Kasian Franks is the founder, CEO, and CVO of Mimvi.

While at UC Berkeley, Franks consulted for Genentech and eventually started his own company in 1993, The Berkeley Integration Group, which later landed Genentech as its first client.

Franks worked at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Life Sciences Division, as a Genomic Research Scientist from 2002–2005, where, along with Raf Podowski, and Connie Myers, he developed the technology behind SeeqPod.

Later he went on to start SeeqPod Inc. a music search, discovery and pattern matching company in which the U.S. Department of Energy, along with Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, holds a 5% stake.



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