Vijay Pande

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.

Jan 13, 2025 | crazystupidtech.com | Fred Vogelstein |Vijay Pande

By Fred VogelsteinWhen you talk to Jakob Uszkoreit you have to bring your “A“ game. It's not because he's evasive. It's because the stuff he's working on is cutting edge enough that you need every neuron firing to keep up with what he's talking about. Uszkoreit is one of the fathers of modern AI. In 2017 he was one of eight authors of Attention is All You Need, known to many as the Transformer paper.

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.

Oct 26, 2024 | vijaypande.substack.com | Vijay Pande

It’s perplexing: How can the United States, with its renowned doctors, cutting-edge medical technology, and highest per capita healthcare spending, still see such disappointing health outcomes? At first glance, it doesn’t make sense. But upon closer examination, this is precisely the issue with the U.S. healthcare system. The answer is simpler than it seems. The system is excellent at treating diseases but fails to prioritize preventing them.

Oct 25, 2024 | vijaypande.substack.com | Vijay Pande

\There’s a fascinating trick you can do with a bottle of water. If you let it cool in the freezer but remove it just before it freezes, the water stays in a liquid state even though it’s below freezing temperature. Then, with a simple tap or by adding a small piece of ice, the entire bottle rapidly solidifies before your eyes.