The Value of Investing Across Stages and Sectors, with Deena Shakir of Lux Capital | Startup Investing

<p>Justin Gordon (<a href="https://twitter.com/justingordon212">@justingordon212</a>) talks with Deena Shakir (<a href="https://twitter.com/deenashakir">@deenashakir</a>), Partner at Lux Capital, a venture capital firm that makes long-term bets on contrarians and outsiders. At Lux, Deena invests in transformative technologies improving lives and livelihoods, and she is particularly interested in intersectional and underdog entrepreneurs building breakthrough companies to accelerate advances and equity in human and population health.</p><p>Since joining Lux in late 2019, Deena has led a number of investments across stages and sectors, including in women's health (Maven Clinic, Alife, Adyn), digital health infrastructure (SteadyMD, H1), health equity (Waymark), and foodtech (Shiru), and fintech (Mos and Ramp). Prior to joining Lux, Deena was a Partner at GV (formerly Google Ventures), previously led product partnerships at Google for early stage products in healthcare, AI/ML and search at Google, and directed social impact investments at Google.org.</p><p>Before tech and venture, Deena had diverse partnership-centric experiences as an aspiring anthropologist, journalist, diplomat, aid worker and technologist. She was a Presidential Management Fellow at the U.S. Department of State under Secretary Clinton, where she helped launch President Obama’s first Global Entrepreneurship Summit in 2010. Her non-traditional path has cultivated Deena’s deep conviction in the potential of breakthrough ventures to positively transform the future and garnered her unparalleled network to help them achieve it.</p><p>Website: <a href="https://luxcapital.com/">Lux Capital</a></p><p>LinkedIn: <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/deenashakir/">linkedin.com/in/deenashakir/</a></p><p>Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/deenashakir">@deenashakir</a></p><p>Show Notes:</p><ul> <li>Deena’s background and how she ended up in VC</li> <li>How her experience across a variety of industries has led to a valuable diverse network</li> <li>H