A Partner at Pillar VC, Tony describes his start at MIT, founding the MIT BioMakerspace, his work at Petri, being an early supporter of Nucleate, and his philosophy of not being overly influenced by what is in vogue today.

The Co-Founder and Operating Chairman of Curie.Bio, and serial entrepreneur, shares experiences from his early life, CombinatoRx, Foundation Medicine, Third Rock, EQRx and more.

He describes his career path and learnings from the tech industry, co-founding Adimab, the work that Alloy and 82VS do to support and invest in scientist-entrepreneurs, and why he believes smaller organizations are best suited for discovery work and other early stage innovation.

A general partner the firm, she describes her career path, including time spent at Goldman Sachs and Genentech, before landing at Canaan over a decade ago. She discusses the firm's investment approach to healthcare, and boldly moving into new categories of medicine even in cases where an organization doesn't have existing commercial infrastructure.

MPM's founder and managing partner discusses the firm's 30+ years of investing in life sciences, including the philosophy of placing entrepreneur partners at companies from the start, and teaming up with research institutions and investment collaborators. Plus, the keys making it through a down cycle like the industry has been in over recent years.

He describes his career path, including time in the lab and doing quant work at Goldman Sachs. Plus, what he has learned about VC investing and biotech over time, and how Omega Funds is able to successfully invest in various stages and rounds of companies.

He describes this path to venture investing from his start in science at the NIH to becoming a pathologist, and eventually raising a modest first fund and building off of its success. Plus, his investment philosophy and investing in science - including outside of therapeutics.

Sara Nayeem describes her career path and how different firms she has worked for have had different approaches to investing. She introduces us to Enavate Sciences, and shares her thoughts on investing in various areas such as rare diseases and digital health.

D.A. Wallach describes how he went from music to healthcare/biotech investing, and the similarities he sees between the two industries. Plus, the firm's investment philosophy and how he partnered with Tim Wright to create the firm.

Beth Seidenberg tells the story of how her career went from physician, to product development in industry, to investor. She describes the qualities she looks for in an entrepreneur, and discusses the Los Angeles core of Westlake BioPartners.