General Partner

Deena Shakir

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Deena Shakir
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About

Deena Shakir

Deena's investments span stages and sectors, and include women's health, digital health infrastructure, health equity, foodtech, and fintech. Above all, she seeks out extraordinary, often underdog, founders on a mission.

Prior to Lux, Deena was a Partner at GV (formerly Google Ventures), led product partnerships at Google for health, search, and AI/ML, and directed social impact investments at Google.org. Deena also 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 and selling her first company while in college. She is 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.

What you seek is seeking you."
What you seek is seeking you."
—Jalaluddin Rumi
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Her upcoming children’s book, Leena Mo, CEO, will be published by Simon & Schuster in 2024.
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Deena is the first-generation daughter of immigrants from Iraq and speaks fluent Arabic and French; she is also conversational in Spanish
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companies invested in

Shiru

Advancing Human Health

AllStripes

Advancing Human Health

Mos

Increasing Productivity + Efficiency

Neo

Increasing Productivity + Efficiency

H1

Advancing Human Health

SteadyMD

Advancing Human Health

Adyn

Advancing Human Health

Galileo

Advancing Human Health

Maven

Advancing Human Health

Ramp

Increasing Productivity + Efficiency

Waymark

Advancing Human Health

Gameto

Advancing Human Health

Everly Health

Advancing Human Health

Miga Health

Summer Health

Advancing Human Health

Trial Library

Advancing Human Health

Alife Health

Advancing Human Health
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