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Vishal Vasishth
Investor and Builder of Companies with Inspiring Purpose
San Francisco Bay Area
Overview
Vishal Vasishth is a Co-Founder & Managing Director at Obvious Ventures, leading investments in companies like Pi Health, Prism Data, Brightside, and Openly. With an MBA from UCLA Anderson School of Management, he specializes in due diligence, turn-around management, and angel investing, focusing on sectors such as FinTech, SaaS, and Health IT in the San Francisco Bay Area. His notable achievements include successful investments in companies like Good Eggs and ConcertoCare, showcasing his expertise in building and nurturing purpose-driven ventures.
Work Experience
Co-Founder & Managing Director
2014 - Current
Obvious is a venture capital firm investing in startups reimagining trillion-dollar industries through a world positive lens. Our three investment pillars are Planet Health, Human Health, and Economic Health. We invest at both early and emerging growth stages. Select investments include Beyond Meat, Miyoko's Creamery, and Good Eggs in food; Virta, Devoted Health, and Galileo in healthcare; Zymergen, Recursion Pharmaceuticals, and LabGenius in computational biology; Proterra, Lilium, and Amply in electrified transportation; One Finance, Corvus, and Openly in fintech; and Incredible Health and Gusto, platforms helping people thrive at work.
Investing in entrepreneurs who are reimagining trillion-dollar industries across planetary, human, and economic health.
Board Observer
2024
Accelerating the development of lifesaving medicines and enabling patients globally to have equal access to the highest quality of cancer care and research
Pi Health is a provider of platforms to assist oncology-related clinical trials with identifying sites and helping sponsors manage sites
Raised $30,877,444.00 from Invus, Obvious Ventures, AlleyCorp and Alumni Ventures.
Board Member
2023
Democratizing the use of cash flow underwriting in our banking system.
Prism Data is a cash flow underwriting infrastructure and analytics platform powering the next generation of risk scoring.
Raised $5,000,000.00 from Story Ventures, Valar Ventures, Synchrony Ventures, Citi Impact Fund, Obvious Ventures, Core Innovation Capital and Plaid.
Board Observer
2023
Working to accelerate the impact that transformers and generative AI can have in the healthcare industry.
GenHealth.ai provides healthcare solutions using generative AI trained on encoded medical events.
Raised $12,999,995.00 from Plug and Play, Craft Ventures and Obvious Ventures.
Board Member
2022
Branded wallet (debit+credit) for brands.
Tandym is a first-to-market private-label credit card company.
Raised $60,000,000.00 from Rivonia Road Capital.
Board Member
2022
Building a platform for improving financial lives of working families.
Brightside is an employer-based financial health solution that combines personal assistants and an innovative partner platform.
Raised $72,225,000.00 from Alumni Ventures, Chestnut Street Ventures, Obvious Ventures, Clocktower Technology Ventures, Green D Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz and Trinity Ventures.
Board Member
2022
Building a modern fintech platform for healthcare.
Lynx is an API-connected healthcare payments, banking, and e-commerce platform.
Raised $17,500,000.00 from Obvious Ventures, .406 Ventures, Winter Street Ventures, Frist Cressey Ventures, Huntington Avenue Ventures and Shields Capital.
Board Member
2024
Computer vision driven endoscopy for GI disease
Iterative Health develops technology that can benefit patients anywhere, regardless of socioeconomic or geographic barriers.
Board Observer
2021
Building a tech enabled full stack healthcare company in the Autism space, with a goal to improve outcomes and reduce cost.
Positive Development is improving lives by helping develop the skills to connect with one’s self, family, and community.
Raised $50,191,355.00 from Difference Partners and Operator Partners.
Board Observer
2020
Building a managed marketplace in the DME healthcare space with a goal to delight all stakeholders, improve outcomes and reduce cost.
Tomorrow Health is a technology-driven home healthcare company that provides on the way home-based care.
Raised $92,500,000.00 from Obvious Ventures, Montauk Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz, Sound Ventures, Bond and BoxGroup.