@brobbs

General Partner at GV

 Boston, MA
Joined February 2008
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We’re incredibly excited to congratulate our longtime friend and colleague Anthony Philippakis as GV’s newest general partner. Congratulations! biopharmadive.com/news/gv-an…

Two GV investors on biotech’s reset and building their next drug startups

Newly named general partner Anthony Philippakis and managing partner Krishna Yeshwant discussed biotech’s newfound optimism and their investing “North Star.”

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The owners of The Harvey House will be opening Butterbird, a chicken-focused restaurant, in January. buff.ly/3u4DbCY
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Congratulations to @hellobrightline, @caraway_health, CareBridge, @midihealth, Oasis, and @RipplCare for being recognized on @BusinessInsider's Healthcare Startups to Watch list 🎉 GV’s @brobbs shares insights about promising companies on the list — bit.ly/48oUYUu
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Thrilled to be included alongside the @try_headway team yesterday at the @Nasdaq opening bell ceremony! #MentalHealthAwareness
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@GVteam18 May 2023
To celebrate #MentalHealthAwareness Month and highlight efforts to create more accessible mental healthcare, GV General Partner @brobbs joined @try_headway to ring the @Nasdaq opening bell! Read Headway’s mission to create affordable mental healthcare— bit.ly/3BAJsHc
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@GVteam18 May 2023
To celebrate #MentalHealthAwareness Month and highlight efforts to create more accessible mental healthcare, GV General Partner @brobbs joined @try_headway to ring the @Nasdaq opening bell! Read Headway’s mission to create affordable mental healthcare— bit.ly/3BAJsHc
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Thanks to @HeatherLandi for chatting with me about @CleverCare2’s mission to provide more inclusive Medicare options for patient impact. @GVteam is excited to invest in Clever Care as they take a new approach to holistic healthcare — fiercehealthcare.com/payers/…

Clever Care nabs $41M to scale up Medicare Advantage plans integrating Eastern and Western medicine

Clever Care Health Plan launched in 2020 with the aim of offering a holistic Medicare Advantage (MA) program for the growing number of beneficiaries interested in benefits that encompass Western cl |...

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firsthand's founding team is mission-driven, serving underserved people with Serious Mental Illnesses (SMI). We're thrilled to officially welcome firsthand to the @gvteam portfolio as they create life-changing outcomes for individuals with SMI — bhbusiness.com/2023/02/06/go…

Google Ventures Invests $28M in Serious Mental Illness Company firsthand

GV, previously Google Ventures, has invested $28.1 million in serious mental illness-focused startup firsthand.  New York-based firsthand is trying

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The Founders Choice VC ranking got us curious.. so we ran the data in @getnotus for a ranking on which VC funds get the most social engagement: 1 @ycombinator 2 @GVteam 3 @collabfund 4 @a16z 5 @kleinerperkins 6 @sequoia 7 @SamsungNext 8 @500GlobalVC 9 @Techstars 10 @Accel
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The community of people willing to take the risk of starting value-based healthcare companies is growing, and it's promising to see new startups address areas like serious mental illness. Thanks @LauraLovett7 @BHBusinessNews for taking the time to chat — bhbusiness.com/2022/09/09/gv…

Alphabet's Venture Arm GV Eyes Brick-and-Mortar SMI Investments

GV, previously Google Ventures, has been an active investor in behavioral health over the last decade. The firm is now eying serious mental illness (SMI)

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Culinary power couple, Joe and Shaina Papach are the owners of The Harvey House in Madison, Wisconsin, a restaurant that’s a celebration of the state’s iconic supper clubs and aims to be at the center of dining in Madison and beyond. #TheDish
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@GVteam24 Aug 2022
“Our interests are broad, and we’re especially interested in companies at the intersection of health and technology.” Learn more about GV’s approach to moving healthcare forward in @Forbes — bit.ly/3PE48mh
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@GVteam18 Aug 2022
As part of our ongoing commitment to life sciences innovation, we’re excited to support Protas as they work towards greater efficiency in clinical trials for common diseases. @schenkein @MartinLandray spoke with @endpts about today’s news — bit.ly/3PDbiH7

Those big billion-dollar PhIII studies? Martin Landray says they can be done for a tiny fraction of...

Martin Landray knows what controversy in clinical drug development feels like, from first-hand experience. Landray was the chief architect of RECOVERY, a study that pitted a variety of drugs against...

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I am honored to take on the role of general partner at @GVteam. Thanks to @FierceHealth’s @HeatherLandi for taking the time to chat with me, and to the founders of @WaltzHealth and @try_headway for the kind words. fiercehealthcare.com/health-…

GV’s newest general partner, a psychiatrist and investor, wants to place ‘big bets’ in healthcare

Spun out of Google in 2009, GV has placed big wagers on the future of healthcare and life sciences innovation. | GV, formerly Google Ventures, has deployed $1.3 billion into healthcare and life...

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GV venture partner and psychiatrist @brobbs teams up with Second Opinion's @chrissyfarr to explore what's next for behavioral health — ovsecondopinion.substack.com…
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🚨The latest Second Opinion is out!🚨 I teamed up with @GVteam's Dr. Ben Robbins for a major review of behavioral health today: Where is the space going, where the gaps are & what needs to happen next. Thoughts & feedback are welcome, as always! ovsecondopinion.substack.com…
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Getting people access to mental health support has never been more critical. I'm excited to continue to get behind @try_Headway as they work to expand access. techcrunch.com/2021/05/04/he…

Headway raises $70M at a $750M valuation to help connect therapists with people and insurance...

Mental health, and how it is getting addressed, has been one of the major leitmotifs of the past year of pandemic living. COVID-19 not only has led to a

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Congrats Andrew and the Headway team!
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@GVteam18 Nov 2020
Welcome to GV. Venture Partner and psychiatrist @brobbs discusses @try_headway's mission to make therapy more affordable, providing a path to mental health support during a time of crisis – gv.com/news/headway-mental-h…
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Congrats to Andrew and the Headway team!
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@GVteam18 Nov 2020
Welcome to GV. Venture Partner and psychiatrist @brobbs discusses @try_headway's mission to make therapy more affordable, providing a path to mental health support during a time of crisis – gv.com/news/headway-mental-h…
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GV Venture Partner and psychiatrist @brobbs talks with @quartethealth and @LyraHealth about mental health in 2020 – gv.com/news/mental-health-be…
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@GVteam15 Apr 2020
Welcome to GV. @Cerevance takes a differentiated approach to neurotherapeutics, creating new medicines for patients with serious diseases / @brobbs @schenkein – fiercebiotech.com/biotech/bi…

Gates, GV chip into $45M round for CNS biotech Cerevance

Four months after inking its first Big Pharma partnership, Cerevance is topping up its coffers with a

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