# Richard Lipkin

> Richard Lipkin is a startup investor at Easton Capital (New York). See 0 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Easton Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/easton-capital)
- Location: New York, United States
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/richard-lipkin-0589561

Richard Lipkin is a Managing Director of Easton. Previously, he was a partner of Commerce Health Ventures, a life sciences healthcare fund, and Laird & Co., a private merchant bank; a biotech analyst consultant for a Goldman Sachs hedge fund and for DARPA; Executive Director of the Strang Cancer Prevention Center; and a prolific author, awardedthe American Chemical Society’s Grady-Stack Award for research analysis. He studied theoretical neuroscience at Columbia University, and serves on many boards, councils, and committees for the Weizmann Institute of Science, Rockefeller and Columbia Universities, MBL, NYAS, and Montefiore Medical Center.

## About Easton Capital

VC Fund · New York, United States

Easton Capital Investment Group manages approximately$200 million on behalf of a number of significant institutionalinvestors in its three funds, Easton Capital Partners, L.P., Easton Hunt Capital Partners, L.P. and Easton Hunt New York LP. Easton makes investments ranging in size from $2 million to $7.5 million and has strategic co-investmentrelationships with many of its institutional investors which allow it to participate in larger initial and follow-on rounds of funding. Easton has offices in New York and Florida.

5 contacts available at Easton Capital.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| John H. Friedman | Founding & Managing Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/john-h-friedman |
| Charles B. Hughes III | Managing Director General Counsel | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/charles-b-hughes-iii |
| Francisco Garcia | Managing Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/francisco-garcia |
| Kresimir Letinic | Managing Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kresimir-letinic |
| Lisa Rhoads | Managing Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lisa-rhoads |

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