Amit Garg

  • I have been in Silicon Valley for 20 years -- at Samsung NEXT Ventures, running my own startup (as of May 2019 a series D that has raised $120M and valued at $450M), at Norwest Ventures, and doing product and analytics at Google. My academic training is BS in computer science and MS in biomedical informatics, both from Stanford, and MBA from Harvard. I speak natively 3 languages, live carbon-neutral, am a 70.3 Ironman finisher, and have built a hospital in rural India serving 100,000 people.

   



133 Stories by Amit Garg

So Your VC Wants To Invest More? 5 Practical Tips For Entrepreneurs

If your VC wants to invest more in you then you have a good problem in your hands. Here are five practical ways to...
November 22, 2021 3 min read 179

Why We Invested In Signos – Weight Loss Built For You

  Excited to announce the $13M series A led by GV in Signos, which helps you lose weight through continuous glucose monitoring (CGM). Tau...
November 15, 2021 2 min read 119

Cognitive Biases? What Are They And 6 Practical Ways For Startups To Avoid Them

Much has been written about cognitive biases — below is a particularly good diagram by Jeff Desjardins summarizing some of the most common types....
November 8, 2021 2 min read 101

Why We Invested In Drip Capital — Financing For Developing Markets

Excited to announce our investment alongside TI Platform, Sequoia, Accel India, Wing Ventures, Initialized Capital and YC in the $175M series C of Drip...
November 1, 2021 1 min read 101

Uncapped Note? No Discount? Making Sense For Entrepreneurs

What is the right cap and discount for your convertible? Should you even have them at all? The latter used to be a very...
October 18, 2021 3 min read 129

What is Up With These Mega Rounds? Making Sense Of The Startup Market

$530M round: Snyk snags another $530M as valuation rises to $8.5B $400M round: Cityblock Health raises another mega-round of funding, tipping its valuation over...
October 11, 2021 2 min read

Signaling Risk? How Early Startups Can Work Best With Big Funds

Signaling risk typically happens when a large fund comes into an early round, creating an expectation in the market that they will lead the...
October 4, 2021 3 min read 231

Digital Health 2.0? The Next Generation Of Startup Business Models

At Tau Ventures, these are three principles we continue holding as generally true: i) In healthcare typical sales cycle to get a true recurring...
September 27, 2021 2 min read 192

Hardware is Hard — 5 Practical Tips For Startups To Raise Successfully

You had a great idea. You built a great team. You know that hardware is a significant part of the product but also provides...
September 20, 2021 3 min read

Should I Raise More? 5 Principles For Entrepreneurs

Many things about startups are about power laws — fundraising included. The best companies do attract disproportionate attention and the entrepreneurs are faced with...
September 13, 2021 3 min read

So My Startup Is Not Growing As Fast — 5 Practical Tips To Still Do A Successful Fundraise

Long sales cycle? Marketing got too expensive? Spent too much time fixing the product? There are so many reasons why things can take much...
September 7, 2021 3 min read

Closing Your Startup Round? 5 Practical Guidelines

Previous articles have talked about party rounds and keeping momentum in your fundraising. This one will focus specifically on the close, which ideally is...
August 30, 2021 3 min read 131
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