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.

 



175 Stories by Amit Garg

Benchmarking Your (HealthTech) Startup? A Framework Around Metrics

You hear these terms all the time. Countless articles (here, here, here) enumerate the various metrics that can quantify the growth of your business....
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Why We Invested In Hank – Aging With Health And Vitality

Excited to announce our investment alongside General Catalyst, Resolute, Canaan and The Fund in the $7M seed of Hank, which helps provide events and...
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Hardware Vulnerability: How Should Startups Cope?

The supply chain vulnerability was massively exposed during COVID-19, affecting industries worldwide from car manufacturing to baby formula. This poses a real challenge for...
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Lead VC – 5 Factors Entrepreneurs Should Consider And What Practical Guidelines They Can Adopt

This blog has talked at length in the past about how to raise a round, especially a seed, and building an investment syndicate. This...
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Secondary In Your Startup? 4 Things Entrepreneurs / Investors Should Keep In Mind

A previous article Secondaries: Founders and Investors defined a secondary as when you sell your existing shares to another investor. Secondaries don’t bring additional...
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How Do I Make Money? HealthTech Startup And Business Models

4Ps, PPO, HMO, MCO, ACO, VFVB, CMS, PMPM, PBM – the list of acronyms is long, see Appendix. But cut through the jargon and...
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Robotics In Life Science — A Hidden Gem For Startups (Part 2 of 2)

Tau Ventures focuses on AI investments in healthcare and enterprise, but we are also fascinated by automation and very occasionally invest in that space....
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Economy Going Down? How Startups Can Thrive In A Bear Market

The earlier a startup is, the more buffered it’s from the ups and downs of public markets. But buffered doesn’t mean insulated. At Tau...
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Why We Invested in Resilient Lifescience — Preventing Opioid Overdose

Excited to announce our investment in Resilient Lifescience, which is taking on the opioid epidemic by developing a wearable system to detect and automatically...
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Raising A Startup Round At A Lower Valuation Than You Wanted?

Most startups will face the prospect of a lower valuation than they wanted at some point. Which is why raising too much, too early,...
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Robotics In Life Science — A Hidden Gem For Startups (Part 1 of 2)

Tau Ventures focuses on AI investments in healthcare and enterprise, but we are also fascinated by automation and very occasionally invest in that space....
2 min read 493

Why We Invested in Salú – Health At Work

Excited to announce our investment alongside Softbank (Upload Ventures), Aggir and Norte in the now oversubscribed $2M seed of Salú, which is helping provide...
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