Vijay Pande, PhD
Co-Founder & Managing Partner at VZVC. Investing in companies solving humanity’s biggest problems, led by founders hell bent on bending the curve.
Dr. Pande is a General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz ("a16z") and the founding General Partner of a16z's bio funds, where he leads the firm’s investments at the cross section of biology, computer science and engineering, including areas such as machine learning /compute in medicine (e.g., Freenome, Cardiogram, TwoXAR, BioAge), major game changing scientific advances (e.g., Apeel, Rigetti), and ways to fundamentally improve how health care is performed (e.g. Patient Ping, Q.bio, Omada Health). A visionary leading the convergence of biology and computer science, Dr. Pande is the founder of the Folding@home Distributed Computing Project for disease research which pushes the boundaries of the development and application of computer science techniques (such as distributed systems, machine learning, and exotic computer architectures) into biology and medicine, in both fundamental research as well as the development of new therapeutics. In translating these advances, he has also been a founder and advisor to many startups in Silicon Valley.
a16z.com
freenome.com
berkeley.edu
insitro.com
schrodinger.com
counsyl.com
apeel.com
San Francisco Bay Area