Cura Partners x Deena Shakir, Lux Capital
This month, Cura Partners is ecstatic to be partnering with Deena Shakir in a fireside chat. Deena Shakir is a General Partner at Lux Capital, investing in technologies at the forefront of women’s health, digital health infrastructure, and health equity. Prior to Lux, Deena was a Partner at GV (formerly Google Ventures), led product partnerships at Google for health, search, and AI/ML, and served as 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.
Deena self-funded her undergraduate degree at Harvard (Social Studies and Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations) and MA at Georgetown through a variety of merit scholarships and side hustles, including co-founding her first company while in college. She is currently a Lecturer in Management at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, a Board Director for the National Venture Capital Association, and a member of Kauffman Fellows, Aspen Finance Fellows, and The Council on Foreign Relations.
Deena is a frequent speaker and commentator and has been featured in print and television on Bloomberg, CNBC and NBC, in print in the Wall Street Journal, Fortune, Forbes, Techcrunch, Marie Claire, STAT, and more, and has delivered keynote addresses at major industry conferences. She was named a "Top 30 Under 40 in Healthcare" by Business Insider and "Top Senior Woman to Watch in Venture Capital" by the Wall Street Journal in 2021, "Top 50 in Digital Health" by Rock Health and 40 Under 40 by Fortune Magazine in 2022.
Cura is the Latin root for “care”. Cura Partners (CP) is the leading community of digital health builders who care about improving human health. We care about empowering healthcare founders, supporting a community of innovators, and helping companies sustainably scale. Cura Partners currently has over 400+ highly qualified and driven engineers, clinicians and operators from top institutions including Stanford, Harvard, UPenn, and Berkeley. The Cura Network also includes leading venture capital firms, their most technologically-ambitious healthtech portfolio companies, and leading academic and research groups.
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