Vineeta Agarwala

In a post on the a16z website she announced that a16z was leading the Series A of Pomelo Care and said she would join its board; the post did not disclose the amount raised.⁠[1]

She served as chair of the board of the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA) for 2025–2026. On May 14, 2026, the NVCA announced that Gavin Christensen of Kickstart would succeed her as chair; in the announcement NVCA president and CEO Bobby Franklin credited her work on board and member engagement.⁠[2]

According to the a16z website, she is a general partner who leads the bio + health fund’s investments in biotech, life sciences software and digital health, and she sits on the boards of several portfolio companies, including Amber Bio, BigHat Biosciences, Orbital Therapeutics, Pomelo Care, Thyme Care and Waymark.⁠[3]

She is also a director of Tenet Healthcare and continues to see patients at Stanford as an adjunct clinical professor in the Division of Primary Care and Population Health.⁠[3][4]

She holds a B.S. in biophysics from Stanford University and MD and PhD degrees from Harvard Medical School / MIT; her graduate work in computational biology and human genetics was done at the Broad Institute, and she also conducted research at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. She completed her clinical residency at Stanford and is board certified in internal medicine.⁠[3]

Before joining a16z she was a management consultant at McKinseyMcKinsey & CompanyMcKinsey & Company is a management consulting firm headquartered in New York, United States. It was founded in Chicago in 1926 by University of Chicago professor James O. McKinsey and, after Marvin Bower established its “professional service” principles, grew into one of the largest pure consulting firms in the world; as of October 2026 it has more than 100 offices in over 50 countries and about 40,000 employees. It has also repeatedly faced regulatory investigations and public criticism over episodes such as its work with Enron, a former leader’s insider trading case, and its consulting for opioid manufacturers.Open the full entry & Co serving biotech, pharmaceutical and medical device clients; a Director of Product Management at Flatiron Health (later acquired by Roche), where she led its partnership with Foundation Medicine to integrate real-world clinical and genomic data; and a venture investor on the GV (Google Ventures) life sciences team. The a16z bio page does not give years for these roles.⁠[3]

Andreessen Horowitz: Official website: https://a16z.com/ (opens in a new window)⁠[5]

National Venture Capital Association: Official website: https://nvca.org/ (opens in a new window)⁠[2]

X: Public account: https://x.com/vintweeta (opens in a new window)⁠[3]

LinkedInLinkedInLinkedIn is a social networking platform for professionals. It was founded in 2002 by Reid Hoffman and others, launched in 2003, and listed on the New York Stock Exchange in 2011; after Microsoft acquired it for approximately $26.2 billion in 2016, it became a wholly owned Microsoft subsidiary. Its revenue comes from membership subscriptions, advertising, and recruitment solutions.Open the full entry: Public profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/vineeta-agarwala-md-phd-674a591/ (opens in a new window)⁠[3]