Skip to Main Content
Try STAT+ TODAY
Trending:
The Obesity Revolution
Biotech
Health
STAT+
Subscribe Now To access exclusive content, subscribe to STAT+
View Latest View the latest STAT+ stories
Exclusive
STAT+

This VC firm once pledged to never invest in health care. Now it’s launching its third life sciences fund

  • Erin Brodwin

By Erin Brodwin Feb. 4, 2020

Reprints
Jorge Conde Andreessen Horowitz
Jorge Conde, general partner at Andreessen Horowitz, is one of the core drivers of its biology-related investments. Andreessen Horowitz

Marc Andreessen, famous for proclaiming that software was “eating the world,” said in 2009 that the one place his eponymous Silicon Valley venture capital firm would never invest was health care.

How things have changed.

Unlock this article by subscribing to STAT+ and enjoy your first 30 days free!

GET STARTED

About the Author Reprints

Erin Brodwin

Erin Brodwin

Health Tech Correspondent, San Francisco

Erin was a California-based health tech reporter and the co-author of the STAT Health Tech newsletter.

linkedin.com/in/erinbrodwin/

Tags

‘It is a balance’: Scientists grapple with ethics of…
‘It is a balance’: Scientists grapple with ethics of cutting-edge stem cell research
23andMe had devastating news about my health. I wish…
23andMe had devastating news about my health. I wish a person had delivered it
Failure to warn: Hundreds died while taking an arthritis…
Failure to warn: Hundreds died while taking an arthritis drug, but nobody alerted patients
Biden administration goes easy on Medicare Advantage insurers after…
Biden administration goes easy on Medicare Advantage insurers after intense industry lobbying
European Union drug pricing proposal for the pandemic treaty…
European Union drug pricing proposal for the pandemic treaty generates pushback
Inflation caused a sizable drop in net drug prices…
Inflation caused a sizable drop in net drug prices in late 2022, analysis finds

Recommended Stories