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Shannon Bergstedt

Principal & Venture Partner at Foresite Capital

New York, New York

Overview 

Shannon Bergstedt is an Investor at Foresite Capital in New York, with a background in start-ups, biotechnology, and product development. Highlights of her career include roles as Business Development Lead at Verily and being part of the founding team at Evidation Health.

Work Experience 

  • Principal & Venture Partner

    2022 - Current

Foresite Capital is a healthcare and life sciences investment firm.

  • Business Development Lead

    2016 - 2022

Verily is an Alphabet health tech company focused on research, care, and health financing to deliver on the promise of precision health.

Raised $3,500,000,000.00 from Swiss Re Corporate Solutions.

  • Founding Team

    2014 - 2016

We enable and empower everyone to participate in better health outcomes.

Raised $259,000,000.00 from OMERS Private Equity, McKesson Ventures, B Capital and Kaiser Permanente Ventures.

  • Intern

    2014 - 2014

    Conducted digital health landscape analysis to better define a space of interest, profile promising companies and identify potential investment opportunities.

Kleiner Perkins is a venture capital firm that specializes in investing in early-stage, incubation, and growth companies.

  • Summer Associate

    2013 - 2013

    Evaluated investment, incubation and partnership opportunities for GE in areas of emerging healthcare innovation. Analyzed digital health, big data and employer health landscape; identified companies of interest and contributed to investment thesis development for each.

GE Intelligent Platforms is a global provider of software, hardware, services, and embedded computing platforms.

  • Associate Product Manager

    2009 - 2012

    Supported new product launch and subsequent commercialization efforts at venture-backed start-up. Led initiatives across functions to drive sales and maximize profitability of cardiovascular genomic diagnostic test.

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