Human Health

12/12/2024

Why We Invested in Mozi

Creating more connection IRL

12/11/2024

Machines will help heal healthcare

Our predictions for 2025 and beyond

12/04/2024

How Generative AI Is Transforming Healthcare

In a world of complex health challenges, including rising chronic disease rates, doctor and nurse shortages, unequal access to quality care, and aging populations, Kahini...

11/22/2024

5 Takeaways from the Cerebral Valley AI Summit 2024

This year, the Cerebral Valley AI Summit focused on the maturation of generative AI, its adoption by enterprises, and its progress toward more advanced, multi-modal,...

10/31/2024

Why We Invested in Ataraxis

Cancer. It’s the great, horrible equalizer that transcends race, class, and geography. About 1 in 5 people develop cancer in their lifetime, according to the...

08/06/2024

Increasing Access to Life-Saving Medicine

On a mission to bring clinical trials to everyone

07/31/2024

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...

07/10/2024

Ushering in the AI Era of Scientific Breakthroughs 

At Obvious Ventures, we see generative science as the next big wave in AI innovation. Last week, I sat down with three brilliant minds to...

06/17/2024

Creating Biological Software to Solve the Biggest Questions in Medicine

Inceptive sees life’s languages fully encapsulated in RNA, a molecule that intermediates how our genetic code (DNA) gets actualized to proteins, which in turn carry...

05/08/2024

Generative Science: Our Contrarian View of AI 

Large science models will deliver transformative solutions in climate, biotech, and robotics

10/26/2023

AI for the GI

How Iterative Health’s founder and CEO is bringing precision care to the masses

09/26/2023

Discovering the Impossible

Why the founder of Gandeeva decided to take on cancer

03/29/2023

Leading the AI Search for Protein Therapies

The big bold vision of LabGenius

01/09/2023

10 Healthcare Predictions for 2023

The pandemic ebbed and flowed in 2022. It changed how patients interact with healthcare, strained the finances of health systems, and burned out medical professionals....

01/05/2023

10 Food & Wellness Predictions for 2023

In 400 BC, Hippocrates wrote that we should let food be our medicine. Those words are the perfect harbinger for food and wellness trends in...

12/13/2022

10 TechBio Predictions for 2023

We foresee the coming year will be one of convergence in TechBio. Cheaper sequencing and new wet lab tools will enable scaled data generation while recent advances in machine learning will unlock unprecedented analytical and predictive capabilities.

11/28/2022

Generative AI That Saves Lives

Bringing Generative AI into the healthcare stack can deliver extraordinary possibilities

10/03/2022

The Future of FemTech Is Here

From innovations in contraception to hormone hacking

09/27/2022

Rebuilding the Healthcare Delivery Stack, Brick by Brick

A guide to the modernization of healthcare

09/06/2022

The Tripping Point

The rising promise of psychedelic medicine

07/05/2022

Fixing the Fickle Finances of Healthcare

How entrepreneurs are helping consumers get better-priced, higher-quality care—with more opportunities ahead

04/19/2022

Ken Chahine and the Laws of Nature

How the CEO of Nectar Life Sciences got to now—and plans to end allergies as we know them

01/20/2022

Menopause Meets Its Match. Her Name Is Sally Mueller.

Womaness Co-Founder/CEO Sally Mueller brings a dynamic-yet-practical outlook to a long overlooked category.

01/04/2022

The Unstoppable Determination of Michelle Longmire, MD

Medable’s Co-founder/CEO on her father’s falconry, never listening to the no’s, and getting more molecules to market

12/14/2021

22 Healthcare Predictions For 2022

The past 24 months have been a reckoning for a legacy healthcare system drowning in rising costs and preventable casualties. The gaps in access, resources,...

09/08/2021

Identity-Aligned Interventions

A more inclusive healthcare system is emerging. It’s time to accelerate the change

07/21/2021

Making Healthcare a 24/7 Affair

Anytime, anywhere care → improved outcomes at lower costs

09/10/2020

Finding Wealth in Health

Why the next great consumer company will be a health-focused platform

10/29/2019

The New Biology

A counterintuitive approach to biological design is unlocking life-saving therapies and novel materials

12/16/2018

A Boon for Business, Creating a Windfall for Causes

Boon Supply founder and CEO Lily Kanter takes e-commerce consciously to the next level

12/05/2018

Food Is Medicine, and Neka Pasquale Wants to be Your Doctor.

The story behind Urban Remedy founder Neka Pasquale’s quest to deliver a sensual, colorful, and healing experience with food.

11/27/2018

Incredible. Immigrant. Inspiring. Introducing Iman Abuzeid.

The Incredible Health Co-Founder/CEO has been flying under the radar, but those days may be numbered

10/30/2018

Leslie Silverglide Flips the Fast Food Script

The visionary co-founder/CEO shares her personal journey and take on the societal shifts that led to MIXT

09/17/2018

The Five Forces of Food

The food industry is undergoing a seismic shift. Here's why.

07/26/2018

It Takes More Than Tech to Redefine a Trillion Dollar Category

Recursion Pharmaceuticals’ performance is also driven by an ambitious purpose, a values-driven culture, and the Silicon Slopes. Here’s a look at the people behind the progress

06/26/2018

The New Intelligence

Modern AI and the fundamental undoing of the scientific method

03/01/2018

The Easy Thing About Hard Things In Health Care

Ask any person with type 2 diabetes what it’s like living with the disease. You’re likely to hear stories of health problems compounding other health...

09/08/2016

Artificial Intelligence Wants To Make Us Healthier, If We Let It

Few words are thrown around Silicon Valley as often as Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) these days. Startups promising to create new businesses...