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.

 



180 Stories by Amit Garg

Why We Invested In Decoded Health aka “A Medical Resident In Your Pocket”

In January we invested in Decoded Health as part of their $4.5M seed led by Sierra Ventures. Tau Ventures is an AI-first fund in...
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Synthetic Biology — Golden Land Of Startups?

Synthetic biology is the branch of biotech that is about creating new biological parts from scratch or from templates in nature. It is often...
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Synthetic Equity — Pros > Cons For Startups?

In the US, limited liability corporations (LLCs) are a recent phenomenon — Wyoming pioneered them in 1977, the IRS issued comprehensive rules around their...
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Is Silicon Valley Dying? No And Why It Still Makes Sense For Entrepreneurs

There are these headlines: Aug 26, 2020: Palantir’s Bay Area move makes Denver the city to watch amid Silicon Valley’s exodus Dec 1, 2020:...
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Disaggregation of the Hospital – A Counterintuitive Opportunity for Startups?

Tau Ventures is a seed-focused fund investing in applied AI in digital health, enterprise and automation (cars, robots). We think a lot about where...
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To PR Or Not To PR? 5 Key Questions For Startups

Wired published a thought-provoking opinion article in 2015 comparing the news cycle around startups to a 12-hr clock. Indeed, tech in general and Silicon...
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Pivoting Your Startup? 4 Ways To Do It Right

1) Cash In Reserve — At the early stage, especially seed, chances are you will keep pivoting till finding product-market fit. At Tau Ventures...
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Why We Invested In FidoCure aka How Tech Can Help Save Dogs (And Eventually Humans) From Cancer

In October FidoCure, also known as One Health Company, announced a $10M series A led by Polaris Ventures and we increased our position given...
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Replacing Your VC? 5 Principles For Entrepreneurs

At Tau Ventures we advise all entrepreneurs to look upon the diligence process during a fundraising round as a two-way street. We believe it...
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Offshoring? 5 Key Principles For Startups

At Tau Ventures we have invested in startups that are fully in the US, where the CEO is in the US and the rest...
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The Biden Presidency – 5 Key Changes We Can Expect For Startups

This is NOT an article to debate politics and any inappropriate comment will be removed. Instead, this is a data-driven background on five of...
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Raising A Startup Round? How And When To Share Fundraising Updates

How long does it take to raise capital? Why am I not getting term sheets when other companies are? Is that investor really interested?...
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