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Vijay Pande

  • Member Board of Directors, Function Health
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Co-Founder at @VZVCfund. Investing in companies solving humanity’s biggest problems, led by founders hell bent on bending the curve.
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Investing in Slingshot AI

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By Vijay Pande, Daisy Wolf, Bryan Kim, Zach Cohen
| a16z
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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A father of modern AI wants to reinvent biology

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By Fred Vogelstein, Vijay Pande
| Crazy Stupid Tech
By Fred Vogelstein When 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.
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Announcement: Andreessen Horowitz Partners with Lilly to Launch First-of-Its-Kind Biotech Ecosystem Fund

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By Julie Yoo, Daisy Wolf, Vijay Pande
| a16z
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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