Pre-Seed, Seed
$50K – $250K
$100M
22+ companies
9 partners
Investment Thesis
LifeX Ventures supports life sciences startups focused on solving major health challenges, particularly in biotechnology domains.
Meet the Team
Veeral Mehta, MD
Associate
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).
Morten Birkved
Venture Partner
Amol Sarva, PhD
Partner
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.
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
Portfolio Companies (22)
Other
SNIPR Biome
Ribo Therapeutics
Onc AI
Seeing through cancer
Cortical Labs
Biological Artificial Intelligence
Hypervision
AI-powered imaging for surgeries
Powerful Medical
AI-Powered ECG Interpretation
Cromatic
Platform for outsourced life sciences research
IMU Biosciences
AI platform for the immune system
Ohai
AI household assistant
Haven
Accelerating the adoption of home energy storage
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- •Size your ask to their typical $50K – $250K check.
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- •Address your outreach to a specific partner, such as Amalia Formoso, Chief Financial Officer.
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