the team
rachna dayal : founder & managing partner
Rachna is an Outcomes-Based Leader with experience in Venture Capital, Healthcare marketing, Supply Chain, Disruptive Technology Management, External Manufacturing and R&D for big corporations and start-ups. Her career spans across USA, Europe and Asia, and companies like Philips, Handshake Solutions and Johnson & Johnson.
Some key accomplishments include successfully managing a network of external manufacturers with P&L of $350 Million, Global Commercial Launch for groundbreaking depression/suicidal drugs and leading a technology startup in the bay area for three years.
DR. ARNOLD LEE : VENTURE PARTNER
Arnold is a seasoned investor in the digital health space with experience at the pre-seed/seed and series A stages. Formally trained as an Internist in the City of New York, he always felt the call to combine the worlds of medicine and technology. He joined One Medical as a founding team member and spent 8 years as a clinician, providing product input and business development.
In 2015 he turned his attention to the world of Machine Learning and joined Lumiata as a clinical data scientist. He joined the VC world with DigiTx Partners and balanced this role with an advisorship to early stage digital health fund CHAP Health. He remains active in the investment space and has participated as an investment team member for nearly 10 opportunities, of which 3 were sourced and led by him (Eysz Lab, Porter Health and Ruby Robotics).
In March of 2021 he joined Komodo Health as the Clinical Product Lead, working in a team-driven environment catering to Life Science and Pharma clients. He was able to successfully drive $1M worth of new logos in Q4 of 2021 and 2022. He currently runs his own AI for Healthcare consulting firm. Incidentally, he has developed a taste for writing code and won an America's Cup.
ANURUPA SHARMA : partner
Anurupa Sharma is an AI/Deep Tech Leader, investor and startup
advisor. She is the founder and Managing Director of SVC Ventures,
a startup accelerator for B2B AI startups. Prior to this she was
Director of AI Solutions at Intel, where she and her team worked
on cutting edge Generative AI applications, which was instrumental
in building and managing multi-million dollar AI products and
projects for industry giants like Oracle, Apple, IBM, and Microsoft.
Apart from that she was also a Program Director for “Intel
Disruptor Program”, an accelerator from Intel Capital.
She also lent her expertise to Habana Labs, Schlumberger, DST
Health Solutions and UC Berkeley. At UC Berkeley she was an
advisor to the Berkeley innovation and SMART Village program,
resulting in the first model SMART village in Mori, Telangana, India.
An advocate for diversity, Anurupa co-chaired the Women in Intel
forum and mentored young female leaders. She also teaches a
Data Science course a
DR. MILAN CHAVARKAR : partner
Dr. Milan Chavarkar, DNP, RN, FNP-BC, IFMCP is a healthcare expert,
practicing as an advanced practice nurse for 25 years. She opened Lotus
Integrative Health and Nursing, an integrative and functional medicine
practice focused on women’s health and fertility, as a novel approach to
health care. Patients receive hour-long visits and an attentive and caring
professional who is their partner in understanding the root cause and
providing natural and conventional solutions to long-term true healing,
prevention of disease, and optimization of health and longevity. Fueled
by her late start as an entrepreneur, she sees the power of women in
business and is dedicated to helping other women transform their lives
personally and professionally. I
n addition to her practice, she now serves as a medical advisor to two
femtech companies Maternal+ and Fibra, partner at Sugati Ventures, LP
in Coyote Ventures, fintech angel investor in Braid, and volunteer faculty
at UCSF School of Nursing. Entering the venture world has reinvigorated
her career and passion to help others.
ADVISORS
NOLA MASTERSON
Nola Masterson is the founder and Managing Director of Science Futures.
She founded Science Futures in 1983 to provide investment advisory services to venture capital and Wall Street in the field of biotechnology.
Working with San Francisco based venture firms she helped create and
invest in Biotechnology companies, acquired by Biogen, InSight, NASDAQ INCS, and ReSound. She is the co-founder of Sequenom, which after going public on NASDAQ in 2000 (acquired by Lab Corp in 2021) and Agena Biosciences, acquired by Mesa Labs in 2021. She joined the
venture capital firm of TVM Capital in 2000 and opened their San
Francisco office. She has served on boards of directors of many private
and public companies. She was Chair of the board of Repros
Therapeutics acquired by Allegan.
She currently is a venture partner at www.Portfolia.co where she leads
the investments in the three Femtech Funds. She has an BS and an MT (ASCP) from Fordham Marymount College, and an MS from George Washington University and did post graduate work at the University of
Florida.
JIM HURD
Jim Hurd builds powerful strategic alliances - for the last 21 years -
for leading technology start-ups — with Fortune 100 companies
, investors and with government innovation initiatives. Jim also heads
the Hurd Family Office, which makes angel investments several times a
year. Jim is a strategic advisor and angel investor to companies like Alef
Aeronautics (a leading personal flying car/ EVTOL company) AGT
(American Gene Technologies) based in Rockville, MD that has a gene
therapy cure for HIV as it’s first product.
Jim participated in side meetings on innovation and finance for the five
days of the World Economic Forum in Davos Switzerland the last four
years it has met. Jim was on the 2010 Energy Faculty of Singularity
University and on the Steering Committee for Silicon Valley for
"Cleantech for Obama" during the 2008 U.S. Presidential campaign.
He works with Senators, Congressmen and their staffers on Capitol Hill to
develop technology and innovation initiatives. He was born and grew up
in Washington DC.
ANALYSTS 2023/2024
TIANA ESHAGHOFF
CASSANDRA FARRELL
CASSANDRA FARRELL
Communications Associate
Tiana is currently a first-year undergraduate student at Lehigh University. Originally from New York, Tiana was born and raised in Manhattan. Although undecided, she is hoping to study a combination of Business and Psychology. She has experience in the startup field and hopes to pursue a future in entrepreneurship.
Communications Associate
Tiana is currently a first-year undergraduate student at Lehigh University. Originally from New York, Tiana was born and raised in Manhattan. Although undecided, she is hoping to study a combination of Business and Psychology. She has experience in the startup field and hopes to pursue a future in entrepreneurship. In the past she has interned with numerous new ventures to help them grow through marketing, analysis, teamwork, and idea building
CASSANDRA FARRELL
CASSANDRA FARRELL
CASSANDRA FARRELL
Healthcare IT Analyst
Cassandra received her undergraduate degree in bioengineering from Lehigh University, and is currently continuing her education there working towards her Master of Engineering in Technical Entrepreneurship. She has hands-on experience in medical device product development through her senior capstone project and biomechanical engineering internship.