By Bob Kocher and Bryan Roberts
Probably the most rewarding part of venture investing is tackling difficult problems with great people (and then succeeding…). Devoted Health is a textbook case. An enormously important, yet hugely complex challenge – redesigning health care to be higher quali
By Bob Kocher and Bryan Roberts
Probably the most rewarding part of venture investing is tackling difficult problems with great people (and then succeeding…). Devoted Health is a textbook case. An enormously important, yet hugely complex challenge – redesigning health care to be higher qualit
In 1969, Venrock was one of the first investors in a crazy, misfit group of inventors building a company to reinvent ‘computers’. They named it Intel and what ensued kicked off the most innovative period in modern history. Fast forward to today, we are excited to announce our investment in
I first met Brian O’Kelley in the summer of 2008, when he was looking to raise his first institutional round of funding for AppNexus. Brian had a vision for how the online advertising market was going to evolve and believed that building highly scaled services for both sides of the industry - publ
Now available to purchase at 50% offIf you could program a home robot in 30 minutes or less, what would you have it do? Would you instruct it to perform overnight sentry duty and look for intruders? Would you send it to the kids’ rooms and have it hide their shoes while they are at school? Would
Last year we all sought to adjust to a new normal as the Trump Administration settled in, with the Affordable Care Act (ACA) in its crosshairs. But as our smart and sophisticated 2017 survey respondents predicted, the ACA lives on. For this year's Healthcare Prognosis, we revisited some topics, li
In 1998, the United States Department of Justice filed an antitrust complaint against Microsoft, accusing the company of abusing their monopoly power. Among the litany of examples, one of the most egregious was Microsoft’s Windows licensing policy whereby computer makers who shipped Windows pre-in
Chris Chen, CEO of ChenMed, joins Venrock’s Bryan Roberts to discuss the challenges and successes of providing healthcare to the population that needs it most – the poor, the old, and the sick. Chris’s father, James Chen, founded ChenMed as a way of providing concierge-style healthcare to low-
Noah Lang, CEO and co-founder of Stride Health, joins Venrock’s Bob Kocher to discuss the changing nature of work, and how his company is helping independent workers successfully create a “business of one.” Lang recalls his childhood love of building and creating, and how it led him to study p
Chris Lochhead, a three-time Silicon Valley CMO, co-author of Play Bigger, and former entrepreneur, joins Brian Ascher of Venrock to discuss the importance of category design and marketing on this week’s episode of Running Through Walls. From having a provocative point of view to not accepting the
Peter Lee, executive director for California’s health benefit exchange Covered California, joins Venrock’s Bob Kocher to discuss working with Washington and Peter’s goal of making healthcare a right, not a privilege. Lee started his career as a lawyer and became an AIDS/HIV activist in the 198
Venrock has a 40-year history of investing across technology and healthcare, including more than a decade at the intersection of those two sectors. Earlier this month we expanded our technology investing team with the addition of Tom Willerer. Continuing to increase the depth and breadth of Venroc
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