LI

LifeX Ventures

VC
Copenhagen, DenmarkWebsite
How to approach: cold outreach ok
Stage

Pre-Seed, Seed

Check Size

$50K – $250K

AUM

$100M

Portfolio

22+ companies

Team

9 partners

Investor activity
Investments in last 12 months: 0

Investment Thesis

LifeX Ventures supports life sciences startups focused on solving major health challenges, particularly in biotechnology domains.

Meet the Team

AF

Amalia Formoso

Chief Financial Officer

AS

Amol Sarva

Managing Partner

FS

Fabian Siegel

Venture Partner

RC

Rika Christanto

Partner

MD

Marta Díaz del Río

Executive Assistant

VM

Veeral Mehta, MD

Associate

Digital Health
Primary Care Delivery
AI/ML in Medical Imaging

Veeral is an associate at LifeX Ventures. He has served as a Clinical Advisor and Business Development Analyst at an early-stage consumer health company called Frontrow Health, where he contributed to market research and provider partnerships. Previously, he worked at Rosecliff Venture Capital, sourcing and reviewing investments in digital health and primary care delivery sectors. Veeral has collaborated with the Rajpurkar Lab at Harvard Medical School on AI/ML applications in medical imaging and sensor data. He also contributed to research on Value-Based Care in oncology at Harvard Business School's Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness working with Dr. Thomas Feeley and Professor Michael Porter. Veeral completed Internal Medicine residency in NY. He holds a MD from New York Medical College and a Bachelor’s Degree from Harvard University (cum laude).

MB

Morten Birkved

Venture Partner

Healthtech
Life Sciences
AS

Amol Sarva, PhD

Partner

Cognitive Science
Entrepreneurship

A Cognitive Scientist turned 6x Entrepreneur. Amol co-founded several startups including Virgin Mobile USA (raised $550M, IPO 2007), Peek (raised $12M), Halo Neuroscience (raised $10M), Knotable, and Knotel (raised $350M). He has also worked at McKinsey and is a Global Vanguard at the World Economic Forum. He has personally invested in over 50 startups. He studied cognitive science for his PhD at Stanford University and holds an undergraduate degree from Columbia University, where he also teaches.

YZ

Yue Zhao

Partner

AI
Product Development
Technology

Yue Zhao was the Chief Product & Technology officer at Fuzzy Pet Health, which raised $88M from Greycroft, Matrix Partners, Icon Ventures, and more. She was also the first PM and Head of Professionals at Thumbtack Inc for 5 years, which was valued at $3.2B in 2021 with investment from Sequoia, Tiger Global, Capital G, QIA, and more. Previously, she co-founded a wine e-commerce startup called FirstCrush. Yue spent 4 years at Meta working on Instagram Feed and Profile, Messenger Web and Desktop, and SMB Advertising. She started her career as a BA at McKinsey & Company and in Corporate Strategy at Cisco Systems. She is a seasoned career coach and aspiring writer (Her first book is called The Uncommon Executive, due January 2024). Yue holds a B.S. in Biomedical Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley, and an MBA from Harvard Business School.

Industry Focus

Invests In

Healthcare
Other

Portfolio Companies (22)

Other

SN

SNIPR Biome

Biotech
RI

Ribo Therapeutics

Biotherapeutics
ON

Onc AI

Seeing through cancer

CO

Cortical Labs

Biological Artificial Intelligence

HY

Hypervision

AI-powered imaging for surgeries

PO

Powerful Medical

AI-Powered ECG Interpretation

CR

Cromatic

Platform for outsourced life sciences research

IM

IMU Biosciences

AI platform for the immune system

OH

Ohai

AI household assistant

HA

Haven

Accelerating the adoption of home energy storage

How to pitch LifeX Ventures
  • Raising at Pre-Seed, Seed? You're squarely in their sweet spot.
  • Lead with your fit in Healthcare, Other — the sectors they actively back.
  • Size your ask to their typical $50K – $250K check.
  • cold outreach ok
  • Address your outreach to a specific partner, such as Amalia Formoso, Chief Financial Officer.
  • A warm introduction beats a cold email. Get matched and request an intro.

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