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Vishal Vasishth

Investor and Builder of Companies with Inspiring Purpose

San Francisco, California

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

    2025

    AI for medicinal chemistry (ADMET optimization). Founded by a strong technical team from Flatiron.

  • Board Member

    2024

    Hard coding clinical excellence leveraging AI. Founded by a leading AI and Health care scientist.

Bayesian Health is an adaptive AI platform that offers health systems through clinical AI.

Raised $15,225,000.00 from Andreessen Horowitz, Health2047 Capital Partners, Lifeforce Capital and Catalio Capital Management.

  • 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 generative AI can have in prior auth and population health domains of 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

    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.

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