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Emily Brady

Emily brings 20 years of experience in investigative journalism, writing, and content strategy to Obvious Ventures.

  • How I Got to Now: Vishal Vasishth

    Years ago, as Vishal Vasishth laid in a hospital room in his hometown of Chandigarh, India, near the Himalayan foothills, he could not have imagined...

  • Blinging out microprocessing

    The amount of computing power needed to power new AI models from one generation to the next is increasing tenfold. All this energy produces performance-limiting...

  • Increasing Access to Life-Saving Medicine

    Pi Health’s mission is to bring clinical trials to everyone. Trials play a pivotal role in medical advances and improved patient outcomes, yet only 2%...

  • A Positive Approach to Autism

    One in 36 children in the United States are diagnosed with autism, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. That means that every...

  • Charging Toward a More Resilient Grid

    The story of Synop began 18 years ago when Dhillon met Andrew Blejde in an engineering class on their first day of high school in...

  • Tesla Alums Electrify RVs

    Just past the entrance of the research and development headquarters of Lightship, in San Francisco’s Potrero Hill neighborhood, to the left of the workshop where...

  • The Missing Piece

    Nearly a decade ago, we founded Obvious Ventures to invest in companies solving the biggest, most complex problems of our time. These problems include the...

  • AI for the GI

    If there’s been a driving force in Jonathan Ng’s career, it is this: provide healthcare to as many people as possible.  If there’s been a...

  • Discovering the Impossible

    Lucky accidents. That’s what Sriram Subramaniam attributes everything interesting that has happened in his career to—from landing a job in a government lab to his...

  • To Wall Street and Beyond

    At Obvious, we celebrate the founder’s journey from idea to IPO. After signing a term sheet, we send our founders a levitating light bulb representing...

  • Leading the AI Search for Protein Therapies

    The path that led James Field to found the biotechnology company LabGenius, began decades ago when he was a small boy playing in the back...

  • Say Hola to Howdy

    How Howdy Corrals Top LATAM Talent

  • The Clean, Quiet Trucking Revolution

    Forum is building EV charging infrastructure and providing heavy-duty electric trucks for the short trips between ports and warehouses that are known as drayage.

  • Always Look On the Brightside

    Jessica was walking into work one morning at a large distribution center in rural Illinois when something caught her eye. It was an advertisement for...

  • Engineering Culture Like an EV

    When Hayley Cashdollar was in graduate school, the importance of being part of a diverse team hit her like a thunderbolt. It was her first...

  • The Surprising, Hidden Impact of Insurance

    Most people tend to think of insurance as a necessary evil, something you fork money over for in case you might really need it someday....

  • Ken Chahine and the Laws of Nature

    There are two things you should know about Ken Chahine. The first is that science has always made sense to him. The second is that...