Deena Shakir

General Partner
Invests in transformative technologies improving lives and livelihoods

About Deena

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.

What you seek is seeking you. –Jalaluddin Rumi

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.

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“The future is already here... it's just not evenly distributed yet.” — William Gibson
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Selected Investments

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Alife Health
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Maven
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Ramp
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SteadyMD
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Summer Health
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Trial Library
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Waymark
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other team members

Peter Hébert
Co-founder and Managing Partner
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Josh Wolfe
Co-founder and Managing Partner
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Shahin Farshchi, PhD
General Partner
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Brandon Reeves
General Partner
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Bilal Zuberi
General Partner
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Grace Isford
Partner
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Shaq Vayda
Principal
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Lan Jiang
Associate
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Tess van Stekelenburg
Partner, Science
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Adam Kalish
General Partner
Development and Operations
Steven Brody
Chief Operating Officer
Development and Operations
Scott Rubin
Chief Marketing Officer
Development and Operations
Segolene Scarborough
Chief Financial Officer
Development and Operations
Sean Traynor
General Counsel
Development and Operations
Alex Nguyen
Partner
Development and Operations
Samuel Arbesman, PhD
Scientist in Residence
Development and Operations
Danny Crichton
Head of Editorial
Development and Operations
Tracie Rotter
Platform Partner
Development and Operations
Saunaz Moradi
Director of Communications
Development and Operations
Chris Gates
Producer
Development and Operations
Andrew Wilson
Associate General Counsel
Development and Operations
Brad Gritsch
Accounting Manager
Development and Operations
Stevie Lee
Assistant Controller
Development and Operations
Samantha Cho
Controller
Development and Operations
Kim Tran
Fund Accountant
Bibi Masara
Office Manager
Development and Operations
Debbie Elsen
Executive Assistant
Development and Operations
Dana Riley
Executive Assistant & Office Manager
Development and Operations
Jasmine Rainey
Executive Assistant and Marketing Coordinator
Development and Operations
Lindsay Morris
Executive Assistant
Development and Operations
Cristina Morris
Executive Assistant
Development and Operations
Bree Morgan
Executive Assistant
Development and Operations
Kim Tran
Tess van Stekelenburg
Andrew Wilson
Jasmine Rainey
Tracie Rotter
Stevie Lee
Steven Brody
Shaq Vayda
Shahin Farshchi, PhD
Segolene Scarborough
Sean Traynor
Scott Rubin
Saunaz Moradi
Samuel Arbesman, PhD
Samantha Cho
Peter Hébert
Lindsay Morris
Lan Jiang
Josh Wolfe
Grace Isford
Deena Shakir
Debbie Elsen
Danny Crichton
Dana Riley
Cristina Morris
Chris Gates
Bree Morgan
Brandon Reeves
Brad Gritsch
Bilal Zuberi
Bibi Masara
Alex Nguyen
Adam Kalish