Vineeta Agarwala
@vintweeta
gp @a16z bio | physician, adjunct clinical prof @stanfordmed | prev @gvteam, product @flatironhealth, mdphd @broadinstitute | out-tweeting @paraga @littleansh
Fortuna Health has raised an $18M Series A from @a16z to double down on modernizing Medicaid. 2.5 years ago, we set out with the lofty goal to build the TurboTax for Medicaid and government coverage. Sounds easy… until you’re learning the eligibility, deadline, and…
It was an honor to speak with @Forbes about our decision @a16z to back @slingshotai_inc, the world's first foundation model for psychology. We believe the best founders tackle the biggest, messiest problems. Mental health access is one of them. @danielreidcahn and @neilparikh…
We @a16z just launched the third batch of Open Source AI Grants (cc @mbornstein) 🎉 This round includes projects focused on LLM evaluation, novel reasoning tests, infrastructure, and experimental research at the edge of capability and cognition: • SGLang: High-performance LLM…
Go @TreyHolterman and the Tennr team! Excited for you to scale AI workflow automation to the most core units of healthcare information transfer in our system: referrals and prior auth approvals. This will help patients + providers actually access + deliver needed care!
Huge congrats to @TreyHolterman and the Tennr team on today’s $101M Series C milestone! Tackling one of the most painful parts of US healthcare – delays and denials – Tennr has already helped process millions of patients across hundreds of providers. We have been proud backers…
Drug design today remains a bespoke craft done through years of scientific trial-and-error. In order to develop a single approved therapy, medicinal chemists design and synthesize over 20,000 molecules -- balancing a drug’s potency with its properties of absorption, distribution,…
Welcome @eriktorenberg!!
I’m excited to share that: 1. I’m joining Andreessen Horowitz as a general partner. 2. a16z has acquired Turpentine. Everything I’ve worked on over my career has been around investing and building products/networks/media for founders — a16z is the perfect place for me…
I am very excited to be working with the Eli Lilly team on this exciting new fund that will make it easier for founders to succeed in bio tech! @vintweeta a16z.com/announcement-a…
Our goals: New medicines. New practice of medicine. Our team: @a16z's global venture capital platform, together with @EliLillyandCo, the largest pharma company in the world. Go :) Excited about the opportunities ahead! cc @JorgeCondeBio @a16zBioHealth statnews.com/2025/01/10/eli…
Quoting my own post again as it is so important. Don’t show more bias and stigma employers by making people jump through hoops to get treatment. Just provide good comprehensive care!
If you are an employer/benefits director you do NOT need a GLP-1 utilization management platform, you NEED a good comprehensive longitudinal obesity care program! Good obesity care will save you 20% on your GLP-1 spend because we do more than just prescribe GLP-1 drugs.
Go Dr @EmelineAvikiMD!! nyulangone.org/news/perlmutte…
I’m really excited to be able to share more about what I’ve been working on for the last couple of years! Couldn’t be more thrilled to be working with @Just_Joshing and the rest of this super talented team on the important problem of getting better drugs to the clinic, faster.
We are thrilled to be coming out of stealth! See our press release (prnewswire.com/news-releases/…), along with some coverage from STAT in their Readout Newsletter (statnews.com/2023/12/13/bio…).
I’m excited to start sharing more publicly what I’ve been working on for the last couple of years! At Inductive, we're focused on delivering better therapies to patients, faster, by accelerating compound optimization with fit-for-purpose datasets and ML #ML #AI #DrugDiscovery
We are thrilled to be coming out of stealth! See our press release (prnewswire.com/news-releases/…), along with some coverage from STAT in their Readout Newsletter (statnews.com/2023/12/13/bio…).
World, meet @inductive_bio! An ML-powered platform to learn from large datasets + accelerate small molecule optimization. Co-founded by @Just_Joshing + @benbirnbaum, who previously started and ran the ML team @flatironhealth (where we met). Excited to be working together again!
We are thrilled to be coming out of stealth! See our press release (prnewswire.com/news-releases/…), along with some coverage from STAT in their Readout Newsletter (statnews.com/2023/12/13/bio…).
Super thrilled to see @Tome_bio come out of stealth to translate the vision of programmable gene replacement as a new editing modality for genomic medicines and cell therapy. Started this company with @jgooten to solve challenges in the gene therapy and gene editing fields. 🧵👇
We are thrilled to be coming out of stealth! See our press release (prnewswire.com/news-releases/…), along with some coverage from STAT in their Readout Newsletter (statnews.com/2023/12/13/bio…).
.🧬🚀 @vintweeta and I couldn't be more excited to have the opportunity to support Mana Bio as they pioneer the field of AI designed LNPs for next generation delivery of genetic medicines. Huge congrats to Mana co-founders @yogevdebbi, @AviSchroeder, @KiraRadinsky and @roynevo !!
Congrats to Mana Bio & co-founder Yogev Debbi on completing their oversubscribed seed round! Mana Bio is pioneering an approach integrating ML into cycles of design, build, test & learn to engineer customized LNPs accelerating genetic therapies. endpts.com/exclusive-andr…
So happy to be joining as an advisory partner at @a16z @a16zBioHealth to help usher in the next-generation of biotechs, therapies, and therapeutic modalities with @JorgeCondeBio @beckypferdehirt @vintweeta @vijaypande @BenPortney @zakdoric and team!! bio-eats-world.simplecast.com/episodes/partn…
Science + startups speak different languages. @DanNomura, seasoned academic & founder @VicinitasTx, is bilingual. @beckypferdehirt & I chat with him on @a16z #BioEatsWorld about the shift from lab to startup + how industry partnerships fuel innovation. bio-eats-world.simplecast.com/episodes/partn…