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Vijay Pandurangan
Founder of Stealth Biotech
United States
Overview
Vijay Pandurangan is the CEO and Co-Founder of Stealth Biotech, an accomplished entrepreneur, and investor in over 90 companies. With a background in leading roles at Twitter and Google, he brings expertise in distributed systems, scalability, and entrepreneurship to his current position, where he is actively involved in the biotech and AI sectors as an investor and adjunct professor at Stanford School of Medicine.
Work Experience
CEO and Co-Founder
2023 - Current
Angel / Seed Investor
2008
I've been investing in and advising early-stage startups since 2008. I'm mostly sector-agnostic, but recently have been spending ~ 20% of my time on biotech deals. Highlights: BigHat Biosciences, Deel, Wish, Pilot, Sourcegraph, Materialize, Italic, Celo, Padlet. Get in touch at hello@olima.vc.
Adjunct Professor
2022
Software is becoming increasingly critical to scientific research, in academia as well as industry. I teach and advise students and researchers in standardized Software Engineering techniques - like cloud computing, virtualization, automated testing, and source control.
Consultant
2019 - 2020
Software engineering for personalized cancer immunotherapy
Pact Pharma is a developer of personalized adoptive T cell therapies designed for the eradication of solid tumors.
Raised $200,000,000.00 from Invus Opportunities, AbbVie, Vida Ventures, Casdin Capital, Droia Ventures, Google Ventures, Taiho Ventures, Zhejiang Canaan Technology, Foresite Capital and Wu Capital.
Entrepreneur in Residence
2016 - 2018
Benchmark focuses on early-stage venture investing in mobile, marketplaces, social, infrastructure, and enterprise software.
Director of Engineering & NY Engineering Site Lead
2014 - 2016
Managed ~ 100 engineers.
X is a social networking platform that allows its users to send and read microblogs.
Raised $12,869,191,511.00 from Greenlight Capital, Binance, Litani Ventures, Qatar Investment Authority, Qatar Holding, The Lawrence J. Ellison Revocable Trust, Fidelity, Alwaleed Bin Talal, Sequoia Capital and Vy Capital.
Founder & CEO
2012 - 2014
The easiest way to save and share passwords. Acquired by Twitter.
Software Engineer / Manager
2002 - 2009
One of the first ~100 engineers.
Google is a multinational corporation that specializes in Internet-related services and organizes the world’s information.
Raised $26,100,000.00 from Angel Investors LP, Kleiner Perkins, Signatures Capital, Sequoia Capital, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Shaquille O'Neal, Henry Kissinger, Google and Tiger Woods.
Education
Investments
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