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🗓️ 25 April 2022
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Deena Shakir is a Partner at Lux Capital, one of the leading firms investing in emerging science and technology ventures at the outermost edges of what is possible. Deena has led a number of investments including in Maven Clinic, Mos, Ramp, Alife and SteadyMD to name a few. Before joining Lux, Deena was a Partner at GV and previously led product partnerships at Google for early-stage products in healthcare, AI/ML and search at Google. Before tech and venture, Deena was an aspiring anthropologist, journalist, diplomat, aid worker and was a Presidential Management Fellow at the U.S. Department of State under Secretary Clinton. There Deena helped launch President Obama’s first Global Entrepreneurship Summit in 2010.
1.) Origins into Venture:
2.) Competition in Venture:
3.) Deena Shakir: The Person
4.) Diversity and Inclusion: We Should Be Optimistic
Deena's Favourite Book: The Power Law: Venture Capital and the Art of Disruption
Deena's Most Recent Investment: Mos: Banking for Students
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0:00.0 | Welcome back to another week in the world of 20 VC with me, Harry Stebbings, and I'm so excited for |
0:04.2 | our guest today, one of the most incredible stories coming into venture, smashing it from aspiring |
0:08.4 | journalist to civil servant to now rock star venture investor. And so with that, I'm thrilled to |
0:12.9 | welcome Dina Shakir, partner at Lux Capital. Now, at Lux, Dina has led a number of investments, |
0:17.8 | including in Maven Clinic, Moss, Ramp, A-Life and Steady MD, to name a few. |
0:22.8 | And before joining Lux, Dina was a partner at GV and previously led product partnerships at Google for early-stage products in healthcare, AIML, and search. |
0:31.5 | And finally, before Tech and Venture, as I mentioned, Dina was an aspiring journalist, diplomat, aid worker, anthropologist, and was a |
0:38.6 | presidential management fellow at the US Department of State Under Secretary Clinton. |
0:42.7 | Now, that is a very unique background for any 20 VC guest. |
0:46.0 | And I do also want to say a huge thank you. |
0:47.7 | This was such a team effort on the schedule. |
0:49.5 | Bill Al Zavain, Josh Shaheen at Lux, and then also Paxton at A-Life and Catherine at Maven Clinic. |
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