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

Raising A Startup Round? How And When To Share Fundraising Updates

How long does it take to raise capital? Why am I not getting term sheets when other companies are? Is that investor really interested?...
November 8, 2020 3 min read

Can Startups Disrupt Medical Errors?

Primum non nocere — Latin for “first, do no harm” has been enshrined by the medical practice since the times of the Hippocratic Oath....
November 1, 2020 2 min read 394

SPVs and SPACs — A Straightforward Guide For Entrepreneurs

Have an investor wanting to do a SPV? Wondering what is all this talk of SPACs? This post is focused on entrepreneurs looking to...
October 26, 2020 2 min read

Verticalization Of Healthcare == Opportunities For Startups

Aug 10, 2020: More hospital consolidation is expected post-pandemic Jul 6, 2020: Hospital Merger and Acquisition Activity Withstands COVID-19 Slump Jun 22, 2020: After...
October 18, 2020 1 min read 201

SAFE: Great (Esp For Entrepreneurs), As Long As Done Safely

Simple Agreement for Future Equity, or SAFE, is an increasingly popular instrument for fundraising especially at the earliest stages of a startup. SAFEs were...
October 11, 2020 2 min read 107

What Is With All These Names And Numbers? 5 Major Ways In Which A VC Invests In You

So a VC is investing in you — great news. But then you see a string of names and numbers in their investment vehicles...
October 4, 2020 3 min read

Advisors In Your Startup? 4 Ways To Best Work With Them

Advisors, as the name says, can give advice that becomes the difference between success and failure for an entrepreneur. But beyond words advisors can...
September 27, 2020 2 min read

Doing Deals Without Meeting In Person? 5 Guidelines For VCs And Entrepreneurs

Since covid hit the US six months ago VCs and entrepreneurs worldwide have had to adapt to the new reality of doing deals without...
September 20, 2020 3 min read 154

Why We Invested In Totient aka How AI Can Help Us Produce Drugs Against Cancer And Covid

On Sep 10, Totient, an AI-driven drug discovery company, emerged from stealth with the announcement of a key partnership with Ginkgo Bioworks to rapidly...
September 13, 2020 2 min read 423

AI And Medical Imaging Startups? 6 Key Trends

Is “IBM Watson Health Imaging” the Future of Healthcare? Google details AI that classifies chest X-rays with human-level accuracy. New Research Finds FastMRI Scans...
August 30, 2020 3 min read 626

Think Global, Act Local: 4 Keys For Startups To Expand Into New Markets

You are a startup that has done fantastic in your home market. Congratulations. Can you repeat it in new markets? This post focuses on...
August 23, 2020 2 min read 175

Raising A Startup Round? The 5 Steps To Keeping Momentum And Actually Close Successfully

The three core requirements for raising a strong round of financing: substance — vision and results, our put it another way team + traction...
August 16, 2020 3 min read 181
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