Derick En'Wezoh, MD
@denwezoh
No Nonsense Investor | Partner @SusaVentures | Investing Early-Stage (@togethercompute, @ndea, @usenourish) | Built http://Viz.ai. Harvard MD. Stanford MBA.
Congrats to @usenourish on your $70M Series B! 🎉 Nourish is tackling an urgent and overlooked issue in healthcare: nutrition-related chronic disease. Their AI-powered, insurance-covered platform is helping hundreds of thousands of patients. I'm proud to be part of the journey.
🎉We're excited to announce our $70M Series B led by @jpmorgan, with participation from @ThriveCapital, @IndexVentures, @ycombinator, Maverick Ventures, @BoxGroup, @atomico, G Squared, and Pinegrove! This marks a major step towards a better healthcare system— more below! ⬇️
Proud to be a Partner at Susa Ventures as we launch Fund V – $175M to back world-class pre-seed and seed-stage founders. Susa has been at this for over a decade, helping build iconic companies from day zero. If you’re building, let’s talk! 🚀 #SusaVenturesV
Not every startup becomes a unicorn. But Susa-backed companies get there ~10x more often than the industry average. Susa Ventures V is $175M to help you launch, scale, and own more of what you build. Let’s talk. 👇 susaventures.substack.com/p/susa-venture…
Consumer AI is the next frontier. Come see what’s next on June 26th in SF. ↓
Congrats @KianSadeghi5 and the team at @nucleusgenomics! It is incredible to witness the convergence of AI, genomics, and ambition in real time. The frontier of longevity isn’t just lifespan — it’s pre-life design.
Longevity is now for embryos. Nucleus Embryo is the first-ever genetic optimization software that helps parents give their children the best possible start in life — long before they’re even born. Longevity was never just about health. It’s about thriving. That’s why this…
Big congrats to the @RilletHQ team on the $25M Series A! We backed them at the seed because we believed in the vision—and the grit. ERP isn’t a “move fast” category, but they built patiently, listened deeply, and earned every bit of this momentum. Onward. 👊🏿
Susa co @RilletHQ closes $25m Series A led by Sequoia Capital. They’re building the leading AI-native ERP. Have they always had it this good? No. We invested in the seed in 2021. For the first two years, Nic and I caught up at least monthly. In the early days the team spent…
Susa co @RilletHQ closes $25m Series A led by Sequoia Capital. They’re building the leading AI-native ERP. Have they always had it this good? No. We invested in the seed in 2021. For the first two years, Nic and I caught up at least monthly. In the early days the team spent…
Big congrats to @superpower on launching The Founder Health Coalition! As a previous founder and operator, I’ve felt the highs of building—and the quiet toll it can take on your health. This movement is a reminder: we don’t have to trade our well-being to build something great.
Better health is better business. Today we’re launching the Founder Health Coalition — a movement for founders, investors, and startup leaders who believe that peak performance starts with peak health 👇
Today, we are launching the first publicly available AI Scientist, via the FutureHouse Platform. Our AI Scientist agents can perform a wide variety of scientific tasks better than humans. By chaining them together, we've already started to discover new biology really fast. With…
🚀 The future of health is here! Congrats to @J__Cub, @maxmarchione, @KevinUnkrich, and the @superpower team on launching the world’s first health super-app and raising $30M to empower millions with proactive and personalized care. @SusaVentures is proud to be a supporter.
announcing @superpower's $30m Series A to build the world's first AI doctor and health super app led by @ForerunnerVC 🧵
Huge congrats to the entire @SilnaHealth team on your launch and $27M raise! It’s been an honor to back this mission from the beginning. Silna’s Care Readiness Platform is tackling one of healthcare’s most frustrating pain points with real AI innovation! Keep it up!
Excited to announce @SilnaHealth - healthcare's first Care Readiness Platform, plus $27M in funding led by @Accel and @BainCapVC! Incredibly proud of my amazing co-founders @Pavel_Asparagus and @sagarjajoo .
Not every startup becomes a unicorn. But Susa-backed companies get there ~10x more often than the industry average. Susa Ventures V is $175M to help you launch, scale, and own more of what you build. Let’s talk. 👇 susaventures.substack.com/p/susa-venture…
The ARC Prize continues to push the boundaries of AI and AGI research with its unique benchmark. Check out the preview of v2 and support the development of v3!
ARC-AGI-1 was designed to challenge deep learning. ARC-AGI-2 is designed to challenge AI reasoning. ARC-AGI-3 will challenge AGI we have not built yet. Each is designed to be easy, fun, and inspiring for humans. Today we're previewing v2 and opening donations to fund v3!
looking to hire the hungriest product-minded engineer or design engineer that you know. ideal candidate is highly passionate about health, actively looking to join a San Francisco startup in the earliest stages. a real doer / builder. $20k referral bonus.
Just got my hands on the World’s Healthiest Hoodie from @Superpower—0% toxins, 100% organic cotton. It feels amazing and knowing it’s free of BPA, PFAs, & phthalates makes it even better. This is the future of fashion. Soon, we’ll all be asking: "what’s lurking in our wardrobes?"
Introducing the World’s Healthiest Hoodie The first ever 0% toxin, 100% organic cotton apparel Most clothes contain harmful chemicals like BPA, PFA’s, and Phalates that can damage our hormones and skin. Only 200 available healthiesthoodie . com
Huge congrats to the team behind ReelMagic on this incredible launch! 🎉 Proud to support a vision that’s redefining storytelling—turning ideas into ready-to-watch videos with the power of AI. Excited for what’s ahead! 🚀 Sign up at @higgsfield_ai #AI #Storytelling
Can AI automatically create long form content? Yes! Introducing ReelMagic: a multi-agent platform that uses the best creative AI models to adapt story ideas into ready-to-watch videos. All within a single workflow. Avail for @Project0dyssey today! Sign up for the waitlist at…
nothing else matters if you don't have your health. that’s why we started @superpower.com and today we’re announcing the launch of our beta membership. we’ve made it easy to test your whole body (100s of labs, microbiome, toxins, & more) view all of your healthcare data in…
I'm thrilled to announce that @annasofialesiv is joining me at @humbavc to invest in deep tech and American Dynamism startups. We back incredible and spiky people, and our team should be incredible and spiky, too. Anna-Sofia is a perfect fit! 🦍💪
Congratulations to the entire @getsapien team on raising $8.7M and empowering CFOs with cutting-edge AI-driven insights! Excited to see how you’ll continue revolutionizing financial analysis.
Can AI run a company? We raised an $8.7M seed led by @generalcatalyst and top tech & finance angels to prove it can. At @getsapien, we’re building autonomous financial analysts redefining enterprise finance—already saving thousands of hours and catching multi-million-$ mistakes
🚨 Hiring Alert 🚨 We're growing Susa Ventures' operations team! About: Susa Ventures is an early-stage fund based in San Francisco. Since our founding in 2013, we've partnered with 100+ startups, including 10+ unicorns such as Robinhood, Flexport, and Viz AI, all from the…
Applications for the Susa Venture Fellows Program close Wednesday, July 31! Check it out!
Thank you to the Susa Venture Fellow alums who joined us last week to share how the program gave them a firsthand look into venture capital investing! If you are interesting in getting hands-on VC experience working alongside Susa's investment team, apps close Weds, July 31!