Jay Rughani

Investment Partner at Andreessen Horowitz

Investment Partner | Health + Bio
2020 - Current
Investing in AI & Data companies across healthcare delivery and life sciences. Health Software Investments: Komodo Health, Midstream Health, Pearl Health, Tennr, Thatch Health, Thyme Care, Turquoise Health, Topography Health. Bio Software Investments: Biodock, Inductive Bio, Orchestra Bio, Valar Labs.
Partner
2018 - 2020
Co-developed our business development network for healthcare & life sciences. Facilitated numerous partnerships between a16z portfolio companies and leading healthcare & life sciences organizations.

Data Partnerships
2016 - 2018
Developed multi-year commercial partnerships with life sciences organizations that leverage Flatiron’s oncology data platform for novel cancer research. Flatiron Health was acquired by the Roche Group in April 2018 for ~$2B.
Data & Analytics Products
2015 - 2016
Helped to build some of Flatiron’s first subscription software & data products for life sciences companies, as part of an amazing cross-functional team of software engineers, medical oncologists, biostatisticians, medical informaticists, and data scientists. Primarily worked in R-Shiny, MySQL, & Tableau.

Strategy & Operations Consulting
2012 - 2015
Supported corporate growth initiatives for Healthcare (Life Sciences, Health Plans, Healthcare Providers, Government Agencies) and Technology (Consumer Electronics, Material Sciences, Enterprise Software) companies. Client engagements in the U.S., Germany, and Brazil.

GTM Strategy & Business Development
2011 - 2012
Supported the 3 founders on various go-to-market, product development, and fundraising efforts. Joined as early employee (<5 FTEs) and helped scale business through to $28.3M series A investment. After scaling to 150 employees & 16 strategic partners, DealerMatch was acquired by Cox Automative (owner of Autotrader.com, Manheim, & Kelley Blue Book) in 2014.

Co-Founder
2009 - 2010
Started a nutritional sports drink company with my college roommate. Made plenty of mistakes, but learned a ton along the way.