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.

 



176 Stories by Amit Garg

The accelerating rate of healthcare innovation

Current economic headwinds are challenging, and we thought we’d take a momentary reprieve to zoom out and reflect on some of the longer-term trends...
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Why We Invested in CalmWave - Managing Hospitals Better Using AI

Excited to announce our investment alongside Bonfire Ventures, Insight Partners and the Allen Institute for AI in the $4M seed for CalmWave, which helps...
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Medicare / Medicaid / Advantage — Where Are The Opportunities For Startups? — Part 2 of 2

This is a continuation of the article: Medicare / Medicaid / Advantage — Where Are The Opportunities For Startups? — Part 1 of 2....
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A Primer on Medicare Advantage, Risk Sharing, Capitation, and Value Based Care

Medicare advantage…risk sharing…capitation… value based care…what does it all mean?!? Such jargon can be unintuitive and intimidating, and is (unfortunately) increasingly ubiquitous within the...
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Blockchain & Healthcare — Where Are We? (Part 2 of 2)

This is a continuation of Blockchain & Healthcare — Where Are We? (Part 1). 1) Nascent Space – Ask entrepreneurs and investors about their...
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Why We Invested In AmplifyMD — Virtual Specialist Healthcare

AmplifyMD is a platform for all specialty needs: it connects. Excited to be investors alongside F Prime (Fidelity), Greylock and Forerunner – it has...
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Why We Invested in Arpeggio Bio — Making Safer And More Effective Medications

Excited to announce our investment in Arpeggio Bio, which engineers drugs to change the transcriptome, with the goal of making safer and more effective...
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Medicare / Medicaid / Advantage — Where Are The Opportunities For Startups? — Part 1 of 2

Medicare, Medicaid, Medicare Advantage. The words often get thrown around and are mixed with generalized association of government social programs for the underserved and...
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Concierge Medicine — What Does It Mean For Entrepreneurs, Investors And For Patients (All Of Us)?

“July 21, 2022 at 8:30 AM EDT – Amazon and One Medical Sign an Agreement for Amazon to Acquire One Medical Amazon will acquire...
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Blockchain & Healthcare- Where Are We?

With the advent of cryptocurrencies, NFTs and the recent surge in startups in the web 3.0 space, blockchain and its applications have surfaced as...
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‘Virtual healthcare’ – buzzword, opportunity, or impediment?

The COVID pandemic has catalyzed an unimaginably rapid adoption of virtual care. Virtual disease management service offerings, and the demand for them, have grown...
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D2C (direct to consumer) health-tech: How do we help, not hurt, our patients?

Direct-to-consumer healthcare. We see it more and more, and it is an increasing trend that’s been written about extensively (see: health-tech business models, the...
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