Vijay Pande
@vijaypande
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Co-Founder at @VZVCfund. Investing in companies solving humanity’s biggest problems, led by founders hell bent on bending the curve.
Menlo Park, CA
Joined June 2008
Excited to continue to help support insitro and CEO/founder @DaphneKoller in their pioneering applications of AI to bio and health!
insitro is proud to welcome Stephen Hitchcock (former Takeda CSO) and @VijayPande (VZVC co-founder, ex-insitro Board) as scientific advisors. Their focus: bridging the gap between AI-predicted targets and the medicinal chemistry required to advance candidates into clinical
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No dev team? No problem. Caffeine turns your ideas into launch-ready apps — just by chatting. Start for free →
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FDA reviewers should have the best AI tools available. Less busy work, more science.
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Great to see the @nyuniversity research study on the effectiveness of @TalkToAshAI "What we've seen with Ash is that specific design choices can help Al become something more meaningful: a tool with the potential to support, empower, and connect."
And.....it works! Check out our first research study (conducted with NYU) demonstrating the effectiveness of @TalkToAshAI with our users. Some groundbreaking findings below 🧵
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Imagine someone 10 years ago asking a psychic "what does the future hold" and the psychic actually gets it right by retelling this tweet.
$20k to simulate the experience of a roommate with a ketamine problem.
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Big congrats @enfeinberg and the @genesistxai team -- exciting to see you surpass Alpha Fold 3 for the holy grail of protein-ligand structure prediction!
Introducing Pearl: the first co-folding model to outperform AlphaFold 3 in protein-ligand structure prediction – a critical step in rational drug design. Thanks to our world-class ML team and @NVIDIA collaborators! Full technical report: https://t.co/7AEmqnVKBu #pearlAI
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The best sci-fi doesn't predict the future, but helps make it by inspiring the right generation to get it done.
Foundation series by Isaac Asimov: **technologist uses science to predict the future and categorize knowledge, then sends it to other planets to continue civilizational progress in case of collapse Elon: **uses xAI to predict tokens, also builds grokipedia to categorize
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Gen A meme-ing as mass understood communication fascinates and somewhat terrifies me. It's all Darmok and Gilad on the skibidi toilet. "The Numbers Six and Seven Are Making Life Hell for Math Teachers" - @WSJ
https://t.co/pOEnSLd1xz
wsj.com
‘Six seven’ sends teens into a frenzy that schools have been powerless to stop. ‘It’s like throwing catnip at cats.’
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"I was a skeptic about systematic prevention" -- @nntaleb 's journey to getting a full body MRI as a part of preventative healthcare. Fun chat with @emigal
A Conversation with Nassim Taleb on Cancer and Heart Disease I recently sat down with my friend @nntaleb to talk cancer prevention and detection, heart disease, full body MRIs, and more. Enjoy!
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Thanks -- we're all in alignment , @EricTopol , @function , @VZVCfund , etc on on prevention, agency, consumer driven health. If you're curious, here's Eric's take from the pod we did recently https://t.co/q8HSj8Q06Q
Nicely done @endpts podcast featuring @ArmstrongDrew & @AndrewE_Dunn interview @vijaypande about AI in LS/HC + his new VC fund. https://t.co/T1LYMfOooJ I loved emphasis on agency & consumer health, suspect @EricTopol will be amused by being invoked in same sentence as @function.
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🎙️ LIVE in 20 minutes: watch along on YouTube for our Post-Hoc Live with @vijaypande We'll talk investing in AI in biotech/healthcare, the VC landscape, and what he's up to next after a16z ...
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Looking forward to the live chat @AndrewE_Dunn !
I'll be speaking live with @vijaypande about AI in bio. Pande left @a16z this summer after over a decade at the VC firm. He had founded bio/health practice, and we'll talk about his new AI firm: @VZVCfund
https://t.co/l76aBSTCW6
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Healthcare Investors Vijay Pande, Zack Werner Team Up to Form VZVC -- @BrianPGormley @WSJ
https://t.co/gq7386MJCb
wsj.com
The new venture firm plans to invest in technology-enabled healthcare startups.
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Menopause is a hot topic right now, and not just in medicine. Here’s why 2025 is the year we’re finally talking about it.🧵
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"Imagine what would happen if the government put Boeing in charge of airline safety, or if fast-food chains set national nutrition standards." @DrMakaryFDA & Jim O'Neill's take on the role of private groups setting AI policy in healthcare https://t.co/loAF1ZW7ZF
washingtonexaminer.com
The Trump administration's HHS and FDA is promoting AI innovation and using it to help make America healthy again.
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From the @axios newsletter: 🚑 Bio boom: We're learning more about VZVC, the new firm launched by @vijaypande (ex-@a16z) and Zack Werner (Snapdragon) https://t.co/3WcS132rru
axios.com
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Gorgeous blending of old and new.
Thank Andrea Bocelli and Michelangelo for giving us the chance collaborate with you Watch video until the end. It will be worth it
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The two most costly mistakes to make in tech: “We’ve seen it all before” and “This time is different” The hard part is knowing which is right.
If you’re above the age of 40, you may want to resist the urge to say ‘we’ve seen all this before’ when trying to make sense of AI trends History may rhyme. But it never repeats itself
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And don't forget the sense of play and joy in the new tech. Messing around with the web was fun. AI has that feel again and that joy of exploration. Learning, and seeing what's possible will again lead to new greatness.
what made silicon valley great that can't be copied was extreme risk tolerance and talent coming together in a permissionless culture. we're at a point where this can happen again. the valley itself has atrophied, most tech co's are just an optimization layer. break the cycle.
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