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

Medicine, Paperwork And How Startups Can Help

If images speak a thousand words the following ones will illustrate the point resoundingly. A) We spend more on healthcare as a % of...
August 23, 2021 1 min read

Have A Startup Idea? How To Raise A Pre Seed

The term pre seed has really become institutionalized in the last couple years, before that the idea / powerpoint stage wasn’t called by any...
August 16, 2021 3 min read 342

Why We Invested In HeyRenee - Personal Health Assistant

Excited to announce our investment alongside Quiet Capital, Mucker Capital, Fika Ventures, Global Founders Capital, SaaS Ventures and Founders First in the $3.8M seed...
August 6, 2021 1 min read

Clone or Clown? Adaptation Vs Innovation For Startups Going From One Market Into Another

Society often celebrates the inventor, the lone genius or small group of people who comes up with a new insight. We heap praise upon...
July 19, 2021 3 min read

Why We Invested In Banjo Health – Simplifying Medical Paperwork Through AI

  Excited to announce our investment alongside Epsilon Health Investors in the $5M series A in Banjo Health which employs artificial intelligence in prior...
July 13, 2021 2 min read 113

Why We Invested In Teiko — Mapping Immune Profiles To Improve Clinical Outcomes

Excited to announce our seed investment in Teiko.bio, which calculates an immune fingerprint for each person. Tau Ventures is an AI-first...
July 5, 2021 2 min read 200

Ventures What? A Practical Guide For Entrepreneurs On What A VC’s Naming, Connections And Legal Framework Say

The more you understand about your VCs the better decision you can make. Obviously there are diminishing returns on how much time you spent...
June 28, 2021 2 min read

Why We Invested In Iaso.ai — High Quality Telemedicine

Excited to announce our seed investment alongside Healthy.vc, Refactor Capital and Esther Dyson in Iaso.ai which helps reduce variability and increase quality of telehealth...
June 21, 2021 2 min read

Inventor Vs Innovator — What Can Entrepreneurs Learn From Who Builds Vs Who Wins?

Let’s start with three key principles: Principle 1: Inventors create a technology. Innovators bring the technology in everyone’s hands. Sometimes inventors and innovators are...
June 14, 2021 3 min read 141

Startups Vs Incumbents — How Davids Can Take On Goliaths

Startups are great at creating new markets, corporates are great at scaling them. But what about startups trying to win an existing market that...
June 1, 2021 3 min read 117

No Needles? The Breakthrough Innovation Of Measuring Blood Sugar Non-Invasively

BBC Nov 19, 2018: Google halts glucose-sensing contact lens project Engadget Jan 12, 2021: Startup claims its new wearable can monitor blood sugar without...
May 24, 2021 2 min read 325

Hiring For Your Startup? 5 Best Practices

Hiring effectively is both a science and an art. This article will cover five practical principles to make the life of a startup CEO...
May 17, 2021 3 min read
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