Bernard Lupien
General Partner Rhapsody Venture Partners
- Cambridge MA UNITED STATES
Bernard Lupien is an expert in commercializing technologies from breakthrough science innovation.
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Biography
Bernard Lupien has worked with talented people at amazing companies where he has learned to commercialize technologies from breakthrough science innovation. He is a General Partner at Rhapsody Ventures, which invests in start-ups in the hard sciences.
Starting his career as a technology developer and progressing to commercial roles in the area of robotics, lithium-ion batteries and advanced materials, he worked with fantastic teams to achieve what is challenging yet extraordinarily rewarding: upsetting industry incumbents and the status quo by bringing cutting-edge innovation to the marketplace.
Industry Expertise
Areas of Expertise
Education
Massachussetts Institute of Technology - Sloan School of Management
M.B.A.
Entrepreneurship/Sales
McGill University
B.Sc.
Chemistry
Affiliations
- Chinova Bioworks : Board Member
Accomplishments
The Patrick J. McGovern, Jr. Award
Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2006
MIT 100K Business Plan Competition - Semifinalist
2006
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Selected Media Appearances
This startup can keep fruit fresh for weeks longer
Crain's Chicago Business
2017-07-13
Bernard Lupien, a general partner at Rhapsody, says Hazel already has an impressive list of customers, including shippers of avocados and melons. "Market fielding and acceptance has been much faster than most hard-science startups," he says...
Selected Articles
Selling for Startups: Be Your Own Rainmaker
Medium2018-03-28
Working closely with early-stage “hard-tech” startups, I routinely hear a myth: that being successful in sales is some kind of black magic best left to back-slapping, charismatic schmoozers that “know how to close”...
Big Companies are from Mars, Startups are from Venus
Medium2018-03-23
While recently helping a startup secure development funding from a large company, I started reflecting on why the two have so much difficulty working together. Large companies complain that startups are hard to work with, have unrealistic expectations, are too ambitious and are frustratingly impatient. Conversely, startups lament that big companies are slow, uninspired and don’t value the breakthrough potential of their technologies. This leads to conflict...
