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It’s official 🏆 VSC is a finalist for PRWeek's 2024 Healthcare Awards. VSC is unafraid to be bold and challenge the status quo. In the past year, that meant fiercely introducing to the world, Prenuvo– the proactive health scan solution for people who want life-saving insights and powerful peace of mind in less than 1 hour. 🎉Congratulations to all the finalists as we countdown to May 21st for the winner results: https://lnkd.in/eHc8UJqU CC: Andrew Lacy, Raja Haddad, Christine Alabastro, Alina Ioani, Sundeep Peechu, Vijay Chattha, Archana (Archie) Chattha, Anne Sophie Hurst, Maggie Philbin, Eric Gonzalez, Kayla Abbassi #PRWHealthcareAwardsUS #HealthcareInnovation #ProactiveHealth

HOLY WOW you guys! The reception for we've had for our 'Dirty Jobs' summit has been absolutely, unexpectedly EPIC!! When Vijay Chattha and I conceived of a VSC Ventures event bringing together founders and investors focused on the Dirty, Dusty, and Dangerous industries of America, we certainly hoped it would have interest. But it's our inaugural summit so we booked a humble but beautiful venue. Well, thanks to ya'll, we now have a waitlist *longer* than our attendee list. (If you're an SF Fire Marshall reading this, please read no further...) Our goal was 100 people, 50 founders & 50 investors. Right now, we're oversubscribed (lol) on VCs BUT I still want to add a few more Seed to Series B founders building in boring, unsexy industries. Does that sound like you? What are you waiting for! RSVP today: https://lu.ma/4dus91nm BTW wanna know who you'll meet at Dirty Jobs? Of course you do: GPs and Investors like Bilal Zuberi (Lux), Kaitlyn Glancy (Eclipse), Jason Kalira (The Westley Group), Kira Noodleman (Bee Partners), Shawn Xu (Lowercarbon), Valerie Shen (G2VP), Julian Counihan (Schematic), Vijen Patel (81 collection), Paul Straub (Wireframe), Jon Bradford (Dynamo), Sanjay Aggarwal (F-Prime), Brett Wilson (Swift), Abe Yokell (Congruent), Aymerik Renard (HCVC), Rishi Taparia (Garuda), Ryan Gembala (Pathbreaker), Shomik Dutta (Overture), Tom Chi (At One), Shruti Gandhi (Array VC), Peter Sun (Climactic), Maneet Singh (Builders), Julia Lam (Kayak), Lucas Vaz (Ravelin), Zal Bilimoria (Refactor) and so many more! We've also got great strategics and CVCs joining us including Nick Ellis (Amazon Climate Pledge Fund), Gabriel Alvarado (Porsche), Tim Singer (BP), Dr. Yvonne Lutsch (Bosch), Tyler Williams (DPR) and many more. Plus over 50 founders including VSC portfolio founders like Nick Hegeman (Paintjet), Rebecca Hu (Glacier), Sanjeev Mankotia (Gaeastar), Claire Burke Trewin (Homemade), Nishant Jain (Presso) and Bob S. (Goodcall) Massive shout-out to my teammates at VSC including Maggie Philbin, Vidush Jaipuria, and Abigail Campbell for their help and support planning the big day. We can't wait to talk Dirty with you 😉 See you June 4th!

Pushing our tally to 70+ in under a decade, congratulations to Pangea Biomed, Pebble and Cambium Carbon LLC for being honorable mentions in the Fast Company World Changing Startups 2024 list🎉. #FCDesignAwards #pr #techpr #communications #startups CC: Tuvik Beker, Emmanuel Elalouf, Ranit Aharonov, Bingrui Yang, Ivan Wang, Stefan Solyom, Ellen Ma, Ben Christensen, Marisa Repka, and Theo Hooker, Vijay Chattha, Archana (Archie) Chattha, Anne Sophie Hurst, Maggie Philbin, Eric Gonzalez

Last year we took over a warehouse in San Francisco to introduce Ample’s “5 Minute EV Battery Swaps” which are designed to create a lateral move from gas to be just as fast, as simple and as cheap, all while being a completely green solution.  We invited reporters and YouTube and TikTok creators who were subject matter experts on the topic. On top of securing 48 stories, a video spotlight in Fortune, and 13 pieces of EV influencer content, our VSC x Ample campaign became… 🌟An honoree at the 28th Annual The Webby Awards 💫A finalist in PRovoke Media's SABRE North America Awards, chosen from 2,000+ exceptionally creative entries #Webbyawards #SABRE #BatterySwapping #EVinfluencer #EVBattery CC: Khaled Hassounah, John de Souza, Azhar Hashem, Juan Spiniak, Levi Tillemann, Vijay Chattha, Maggie Philbin, Eric Gonzalez, Abigail Campbell, John Vollmer, Anne Sophie Hurst

Liver cancer is the third deadliest cancer. Our partners at Pepper Bio are on a mission to change this. Check out their deal with G1 Therapeutics, Inc. for a therapeutic that Pepper's platform showed was more effective over the standard of care during and after dosing. More from James Waldron via Fierce Biotech:  https://lnkd.in/dAPgc3av

In case you missed it, Navin Chaddha took the stage alongside Manish Chandra of Poshmark at this year's Startup Grind, talking about Tulips, Unicorns, and Mayfield Fund's Five Rules of the Road for Building Enduring AI companies. 1️⃣ Company building is a team sport 2️⃣ Sell painkillers, not vitamins 3️⃣ Find your differentiation and build a deep moat 4️⃣ Founder/Investor relationships are a two-way street 5️⃣ The road from unicorn to uni corpse can be short and swift Thanks for hosting, Startup Grind! CC: Kamini Ramani, Navin Chaddha, Vijay Chattha, Eric Gonzalez

"Great strategy, mediocre culture... it's gonna die." Sunil Paul, serial entrepreneur and co-founder of Spring Free EV, recently joined Maggie Philbin on an episode of Climb by VSC Ventures to share his journey from a technology policy analyst in Washington D.C. to becoming a cornerstone in the evolution of ride-sharing and electric vehicles. Check out the full episode to hear Sunil dive into his advice on relentless teams, culture and his most recent venture: https://lnkd.in/gKqm4Zq5 #TechFounder #ClimateTech #Team #Culture #VC

75% of Americans live day-to-day feeling like it’s tough to make ends meet. Our partners at Brigit are on a mission to change this by helping people take control of their financial health while promoting greater financial inclusion. As a result of this mission and the company’s dedication to its members, Brigit has reached over $100M in revenue and a full year of profitability, all while saving users $1B+ in predatory fees. Learn more about the company’s explosive growth in Lucinda Shen’s story for Axios here:  https://lnkd.in/dmMeqp7i #Fintech #economy #personalfinance CC: Zuben Mathews, Christy Center, Hamel Kothari, Maggie Philbin, Vijay Chattha, Brook Klingel, Raven Raines, Kayla Abbassi, George Yury Revutsky

Using food as medicine to treat chronic disease sounds obvious. But we’ve lacked the data to show that it lowers healthcare costs and impacts patient outcomes–until now. Take a look at Foodsmart’s report in HIT Consultant Media on its partnership with Wisconsin’s Chorus Community Health Plans showing it reduced the cost of care by over $2.6M in less than a year while helping patients reduce chronic disease. More here: https://lnkd.in/eXeqDwms #HealthcareInnovation #FoodAsMedicine #Nutrition #Telenutrition #FoodInsecurity CC: Jason Langheier MD, MPH, Dexter Shurney, Mark Rakowski

With over $1 billion in committed capital, Xaira Therapeutics launched yesterday to re-engineer drug R&D through emerging AI tools. 🚀  Co-founded by our partner Foresite Labs, ARCH Venture Partners, and Dr. David Baker, Professor of Biochemistry and Director of the Institute for Protein Design, University of Washington, Xaira is led by founding CEO and renowned scientist Dr. Marc Tessier-Lavigne, former Chief Scientific Officer of Genentech and former President of Rockefeller and Stanford Universities. 👨🏼🔬With an all-star team on board, they’re driving advances in AI to learn the language of life and transform how we treat disease. “If you asked an AI to generate a brand-new drug discovery biotech with a team of some of the biggest names in the biz for you, it couldn’t dream up one like Xaira Therapeutics.” It’s been an honor helping tell Xaira’s story and we can’t wait to see what they achieve. This is only the beginning! 💪 Learn more about how Xaira Therapeutics is creating faster paths to treatment via Fierce Biotech and Annalee Armstrong: https://bit.ly/3Wel1uB CC: Vik Bajaj, Cindy Lundin Mesaros, Kayla Abbassi, Vijay Chattha, Morgan Warners, Kim James, Olivia Z. #foresitecapital #foresitelabs #AI #xairatherapeutics