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Jan 14, 2025 | 
a16z.com | Vijay Pande |Daisy Wolf |Bryan Kim |Zach Cohen
Today, we’re proud to announce we’ve led the Series A for Slingshot, the world’s first foundation model for psychology. This brings the total capital raised for the company to $40 million. Mental health has never been worse. While modern life is better than historical times on most dimensions, we’re increasingly lonely, sad, and anxious. Half of the world’s population will develop a mental health disorder in their lifetime.
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Jan 10, 2025 | 
a16z.com | Julie Yoo |Daisy Wolf |Vijay Pande
Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) Bio + Health today announced a newly formed, first-of-its-kind venture capital fund to fuel broader innovation in human health, in partnership with Eli Lilly and Company (“Lilly”). The Biotech Ecosystem Venture Fund (“Fund”) seeks to drive transformative progress in healthcare by investing in therapeutic platforms and cutting-edge technology companies that can bring new medicines and disease treatments to improve patients’ lives.
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Apr 30, 2024 | 
a16z.com | Vijay Pande |Daisy Wolf |Kris Tatiossian |Olivia Webb
Tom Hale, CEO of ŌURA, joins Vijay Pande, founding partner, and Daisy Wolf, investment partner at a16z Bio + Health. Together, they talk about the potential of wearables to change behavior, and how that can affect health. They also discuss how AI could maximize the usefulness of wearables and power the insights provided to wearers.
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Dec 13, 2023 | 
a16z.com | Daisy Wolf |Adela Tomsejova |Jay Rughani |Vijay Pande
Over the past half century, Wall Street was completely revolutionized by computers. Not so long ago, human brokers on the stock exchange floor haggled to buy and sell every stock, writing their agreements on pieces of paper. But in 1971, the NASDAQ, the world’s first electronic stock exchange, was introduced. Electronic trading platforms followed in the 1980s, and the rise of the internet in the 1990s brought online brokerages like E*TRADE.
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Nov 14, 2023 | 
a16z.com | Daisy Wolf |Julie Yoo |Jay Rughani |Vijay Pande
The internet and friendsYou’ve most likely had an experience like this:One day, you wake up with a hint of a headache and a sniffle. You sneeze. What do you do next? You Google it. You eventually land on WebMD. Was that sneeze a common cold or a bout of seasonal allergies? Or are you in fact dying from a rare form of nasal cancer? You determine you should see an allergist. But which one? How do you find a good one? Does your health plan require a referral? How much is this going to cost you?
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Oct 11, 2023 | 
a16z.com | Vijay Pande |Jay Rughani |Daisy Wolf |Julie Yoo
At a16z Bio + Health, we are constantly looking to expand our expertise and partnerships in service of our mission to support founders pioneering transformative healthcare solutions. With the rapid pace of innovation in AI and other enabling technologies, it is crucial that we have leaders on our team with deep knowledge of how these tools can be applied to drive meaningful change. That is why we are thrilled to welcome Dr. Surya Ganguli as our newest Venture Partner.
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Sep 25, 2023 | 
a16z.com | Daphne Koller |Vijay Pande |Martin Casado |Daisy Wolf
This conversation is part of our AI Revolution series, which features some of the most impactful builders in the field of AI discussing and debating where we are, where we’re going, and the big open questions in AI. Find more content from our AI Revolution series on www.a16z.com/AIRevolution. Daphne Koller is the founder and CEO of insitro, a company using AI and machine learning to engineer drug discovery.
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Aug 2, 2023 | 
a16z.com | Daisy Wolf |Vijay Pande
Recently, we received an email about a healthcare panel entitled “Using AI with Modern Fax Capabilities to Reduce Administrative Burden.”We immediately thought, “wait, what?”But yes, we had read it correctly: There was a panel on integrating AI with fax machines in healthcare!Are we stuck in the 1980s? Shouldn’t healthcare just get with the times and stop using fax machines? We had to laugh. But under the surface, this email tells us a lot.
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Aug 2, 2023 | 
a16z.com | Daisy Wolf |Vijay Pande |Colin Rom |Jeff Clark
Recently, we received an email about a healthcare panel entitled “Using AI with Modern Fax Capabilities to Reduce Administrative Burden.”We immediately thought, “wait, what?”But yes, we had read it correctly: There was a panel on integrating AI with fax machines in healthcare!Are we stuck in the 1980s? Shouldn’t healthcare just get with the times and stop using fax machines? We had to laugh. But under the surface, this email tells us a lot.
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Apr 20, 2023 | 
a16z.com | Daisy Wolf |Vijay Pande |Bryan Faust |Becky Pferdehirt
In the past few months, the founders of Instacart, Spotify, and Coinbase have all started new healthcare companies. This may seem odd to some–why are these seasoned tech founders jumping into tech-driven healthcare? In 2013, Marc Andreessen observed that the biggest, most successful companies have all done something that seemed completely “crazy” at the time of creation. The examples from the last two decades are clear. Sleeping in a stranger’s home? Airbnb. Getting in a stranger’s car? Lyft.
