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Galym Imanbayev

Partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners

Palo Alto, California

Overview 

Galym Imanbayev is a Partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners in Palo Alto, California. He holds a Master of Business Administration from Stanford University Graduate School of Business and a Doctor of Medicine from Stanford University School of Medicine. Galym has made significant investments in companies like Aledade and Fathom, and serves on the boards of several organizations including Soda Health and Ancora Biotech.

Work Experience 

  • Partner

    2020 - Current

Lightspeed Venture Partners is a venture capital firm that engages in consumer, enterprise, technology, and cleantech markets.

  • Board Observer

    2024

Abridge is a medical conversation AI startup that structures and summarizes medical conversations for doctors and patients.

Raised $207,500,000.00 from Union Square Ventures, Redpoint, Bessemer Venture Partners, Mass General Brigham, Wittington Ventures, Spark Capital, IVP, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Kaiser Permanente Ventures and CVS Health Ventures.

  • Board Member

    2023

Soda Health is a healthcare technology company dedicated to eliminating health inequities through social determinants of health.

Raised $81,000,000.00 from SVB Capital, Define Ventures, Lightspeed Venture Partners, General Catalyst, Bruce D. Broussard and Qiming Venture Partners USA.

  • Board Member

    2022

Fathom develops medical coding automation platform powered by artificial intelligence.

Raised $60,858,610.00 from Tarsadia Investments, Alkeon Capital, Inflect Health, Lightspeed Venture Partners, ApolloMD, Cedars Sinai and Founders Fund.

  • Board Member

    2022

  • Board Member

    2023

wheel is a healthcare technology company that provides virtual care for patients.

Raised $215,600,000.00 from Salesforce Ventures, Lightspeed Venture Partners, CRV, Silverton Partners, Tusk Venture Partners, Tiger Global Management and Coatue.

  • Board Observer

    2023

  • Stanford University Board of Trustees - Graduate Representative

    2018 - 2020

  • Fellow at Pear VC

    2018 - 2019

  • Founder: ImpactMed

    2015 - 2020

  • Research Assistant: US-Asia Technology Management Center

    2017 - 2018

  • Scholar & Consulting Faculty: Stanford Medicine X

    2015 - 2018

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