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Did Farnoud Kazemzadeh co-found Vital Bio?
Yes. A University of Waterloo news story (uwaterloo.ca, 2023-08-10) says "Koussa and Nadella are two of Vital Bio's four co-founders, including Iman Khodadad (PhD '16), vice-president of technology and Farnoud Kazemzadeh (PhD '15), vice-president of engineering", and captions a photo "Vital Bio co-founders Farnoud Kazemzadeh, Iman Khodadad, Vasu Nadella, Mounir A. Koussa". The same story says the four met at Velocity, where Khodadad and Kazemzadeh were building Elucid Labs, and that Vital Bio started working out of Velocity in Kitchener in 2019.
What is Farnoud Kazemzadeh's role at Vital Bio?
Vice-president of engineering, per the University of Waterloo story of 2023-08-10. Investor Inovia Capital's founder page for him, as archived on 2023-03-21, read "Co-Founder & VP Engineering". vitalbio.com carries no team page (checked 2026-10-24), so whether that title is still current could not be confirmed.
What did Farnoud Kazemzadeh do before Vital Bio?
He ran Elucid Labs, a Waterloo startup that paired a small spectral-imaging device with machine learning to assess skin lesions. A University of Waterloo engineering alumni feature (2018-06-01) says he co-founded it with professor Alexander Wong and Iman Khodadad, that it grew out of his PhD research, and lists his degrees as BSc '08, MASc '12 and PhD; a Systems Design Engineering news item (2017-11-10) called him "currently CEO of Elucid Labs". Inovia's archived founder page credits him with 12 patents, more than 60 academic publications and instruments placed on telescopes, planetary probes and the International Space Station.
Has Farnoud Kazemzadeh spoken at TechTO?
No. Vital Bio's TechTO connection runs through co-founder and CEO Vasu Nadella, who spoke at TechTO Together, live from Rotman, on 2024-09-18. No interview or podcast featuring Kazemzadeh was found (searches run 2026-10-24); the coverage that names him is University of Waterloo news.