Why We Invested In Transcera — Ceramide Therapeutic Platform

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Excited to announce our investment in the seed for Transcera, a biotech company developing a ceramide lipid-based drug delivery platform that utilizes active transport pathways to increase drug absorption. We are joined by Xora Innovation, an early-stage deep tech investment platform of Temasek, Digitalis Ventures, Pear VC, and KdT Ventures. Tau Ventures is an AI-first fund in Silicon Valley investing primarily in mature seed, typically when there is a pipeline of customers. We found Transcera to be exciting for several reasons: (1) big need (2) high-caliber team and (3) product opportunity. 1) The Need A key factor in dosing for biologic drugs used for prevalent…...

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sharonshuang MD Candidate | VC in Healthcare, Digital Health
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.