# Douglas Hansen

> Douglas Hansen is a seed investor at Redwood Trust (New York) backing Analytics and Life Science. See 1 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Redwood Trust](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/redwood-trust)
- Location: New York, United States
- Total investments: 1
- Last investment: Aug 2015
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/douglasbhansen

Douglas Hansen is a seed investor at Redwood Trust in New York focused on Analytics and Life Science. Douglas B. Hansen is a co-founder of Redwood and served as Redwood’s President from 1994 through 2008. Mr. Hansen retired from his position as President of Redwood at the end of 2008. Mr. Hansen has been a director of Redwood since 1994. Mr. Hansen serves on the Board of Directors of Four Corners Property Trust, Inc., a publicly traded real estateinvestment trust. Mr. Hansen also serves on the board of River of Knowledge, a not-for-profit institution. Mr. Hansen holds a B.A. in Economics from Harvard College and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Analytics | 1 | 100% |
| Life Science | 1 | 100% |
| Biotechnology | 1 | 100% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Thrive Bioscience | Thrive Bioscience is commercializing a family of instruments and software that provide imaging, analytics, and automation to significantly improve cell culture and the analysis of live cells. Thrive’s instruments empower biologists to deliver consistent, reproducible results by leveraging microscopy, robotics, fluidics, and other fields, to captureimages and data and provide analysis, reports, guidance, documentation, and a database on the cells and on cell culture processes. | $4M | Seed | Aug 18, 2015 |  |

1 of 1 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Lauder Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lauder-partners) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Life Science Angels](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/life-science-angels) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Sidecar Angels](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sidecar-angels) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Triple Ring Technologies](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/triple-ring-technologies) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Redwood Trust

VC Fund · Mill Valley, United States

Redwood Trust is a specialty finance company focused on making credit-sensitive investments in single-family residential and related assets. The Company is engaged in mortgage banking activities. The Company operates through three segments: Residential Investments, Residential Mortgage Banking, and Commercial.Since going public in 1994, they havesuccessfully managed their business through several cycles and built a track record of innovation, prudent risk management, and a best-in-class reputation for service and executing credit risk solutions. They are internally managed and have elected to be taxed as a real estate investment trust, or REIT, for federal income tax purposes.

2 contacts available at Redwood Trust.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Abhinav Asthana | CTO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/abhinav-asthana |
| Douglas Hansen | Co-Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/douglas-hansen |

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## FAQ

### What does Douglas Hansen invest in?

Douglas Hansen invests primarily in Analytics, Life Science and Biotechnology startups, most often at Seed stage. Most of the 1 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Douglas Hansen last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Douglas Hansen closed in Aug 2015. Shizune tracks 1 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

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