Vineeta Agarwala

About

Vineeta Agarwala, MD, PhD is a general partner at Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) where she leads investments for the firm’s bio + health fund across biotech, life sciences software, and digital health, with a focus on companies leveraging unique technologies and datasets to advance drug development, personalized medicine, and innovation in patient care delivery.

Prior to joining a16z, Vineeta held many different roles in the healthcare space: as a physician taking care of patients; as an operator at healthtech startups; and as a venture investor on the GV (Google Ventures) life sciences team. She has been a data scientist; a management consultant for biotech, pharmaceutical, and medical device clients at McKinsey & Co; and a Director of Product Management at Flatiron Health (acquired by Roche), where she led the company’s partnership with Foundation Medicine to integrate real-world clinical and genomic data into national-scale data products to accelerate research and development in oncology. She has conducted academic research at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, and the Broad Institute, where she did graduate work in computational biology and human genetics.

Vineeta holds a B.S. in biophysics from Stanford University, and MD and PhD degrees from Harvard Medical School / MIT. She completed her clinical residency at Stanford, and is board certified in internal medicine. Vineeta continues to see patients at Stanford as an adjunct clinical professor in the Division of Primary Care and Population Health.

Vineeta serves on several portfolio company boards, including Amber Bio, BigHat Biosciences, Gate Bio, GC Therapeutics, knownwell, Orbital Therapeutics, Pearl Health, Pomelo Care, Rezo Therapeutics, Thyme Care, and Waymark. She also serves on the board of Tenet Healthcare and is currently Board Chair at the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA).