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Justin Olshavsky retweeted
The first VC fund to offer to invest in Anthropic was @pioneer_fund.
Many claim to be solving the predictive validity gap in drug development
Olio has built the systems to actually do it, for the most impactful class of medicines
Justin Olshavsky retweeted
Come work at Until!
Isla joined as 3rd employee and now runs one of the most important programs in the company.
Every seat at Until matters - you’ll be held to the highest intellectual standard + expected to contribute across disciplines, in every case on work core to company progress.
We want to save lives. Come work on what matters.
Justin Olshavsky retweeted
Our entire experience of reality is mediated by electrical activity in the brain. I’m inspired by BCI becoming increasingly, backable engineering, pulled forward by AI: models we interact with, translation architectures, and predictors of how perturbations reshape experience.
Justin Olshavsky retweeted
Today we're unveiling Dimension III: a $800M fund to partner with the leading entrepreneurs across the frontiers of compute (silicon through infrastructure) & science (biotech through physics).
To our founders, past, present, and future: now is your time. LFG!
Justin Olshavsky retweeted
Three years ago, Assort Health was two founders with an idea. Today it's valued at $1.2 billion.
I talked with Connor Hailey, Senior Venture Partner at @pioneer_fund, to look back at what led to our early investment, the bet on execution over technology, and what Assort's path to a $1.2B valuation says about winning in healthcare AI.
Pioneer Bio+Health Fund backed @_JonWang and Jeff Liu in their pre-seed round ~3 years ago
Today, @assort_health is a unicorn!
190M+ patient interactions, all making the healthcare system more tractable so patients can get the care they need. They're only just getting started
Today we raised a $120M Series C at a $1.2B valuation, led by @MenloVentures.
We now have over $220M to become the standard for how healthcare providers transform the patient journey with AI.
As a medical student at UCSF, I watched patients fall through the cracks for reasons that had nothing to do with medicine.
Healthcare has spent decades improving clinical outcomes, yet patients were still repeating their story, navigating disconnected systems, and too often giving up before they got the care they needed.
I couldn't accept that patients spent more time on hold than with their doctors. It felt like one of the biggest unsolved problems in healthcare.
So I left to build @assort_health.
Our first chapter was learning how complex each practice's care protocols really are. It took us months to build a single agent.
That's why we built Synapse, our agentic model. It gets sharper with every edge case it sees, and with 190M+ patient interactions behind it, no one's model has seen more. That's what lets non-technical people build agents in weeks, even for the most complex workflows, with industry-leading automation rates.
This is how we grew revenue 20x in 15 months, as leading providers chose the one platform proven to handle the complexity of healthcare workflows at scale.
But this was always meant to be just the first chapter.
The first interaction isn't only where care begins. It's where patient context is created. Get that right, and every step after becomes easier.
Today we're a platform for the whole journey. Our AI agents answer calls, schedule appointments, manage referrals, complete intake, refill medications, reach patients proactively, and collect payments, all personalized to each patient.
Grateful to @jpsanday, Matt Murphy and the team at Menlo Ventures for leading, and to @lightspeedvp, @felicis, First Round Capital, Chemistry, @QuietCapital, and Joe Montana for backing us again. To the Assort team: none of this happens without your relentless focus and care. Fired up to build Healthcare that Remembers alongside you. Still Day One.
Today we raised a $120M Series C at a $1.2B valuation, led by @MenloVentures.
We now have over $220M to become the standard for how healthcare providers transform the patient journey with AI.
As a medical student at UCSF, I watched patients fall through the cracks for reasons that had nothing to do with medicine.
Healthcare has spent decades improving clinical outcomes, yet patients were still repeating their story, navigating disconnected systems, and too often giving up before they got the care they needed.
I couldn't accept that patients spent more time on hold than with their doctors. It felt like one of the biggest unsolved problems in healthcare.
So I left to build @assort_health.
Our first chapter was learning how complex each practice's care protocols really are. It took us months to build a single agent.
That's why we built Synapse, our agentic model. It gets sharper with every edge case it sees, and with 190M+ patient interactions behind it, no one's model has seen more. That's what lets non-technical people build agents in weeks, even for the most complex workflows, with industry-leading automation rates.
This is how we grew revenue 20x in 15 months, as leading providers chose the one platform proven to handle the complexity of healthcare workflows at scale.
But this was always meant to be just the first chapter.
The first interaction isn't only where care begins. It's where patient context is created. Get that right, and every step after becomes easier.
Today we're a platform for the whole journey. Our AI agents answer calls, schedule appointments, manage referrals, complete intake, refill medications, reach patients proactively, and collect payments, all personalized to each patient.
Grateful to @jpsanday, Matt Murphy and the team at Menlo Ventures for leading, and to @lightspeedvp, @felicis, First Round Capital, Chemistry, @QuietCapital, and Joe Montana for backing us again. To the Assort team: none of this happens without your relentless focus and care. Fired up to build Healthcare that Remembers alongside you. Still Day One.
Justin Olshavsky retweeted
@Assort_Health is now a unicorn! $1.2B to be exact, in just 3 years.
Huge congrats to Jeffery Liu and @_JonWang and the whole Assort team.
They're solving frustrating operational problems in healthcare, making it easier for doctors and their patients to communicate.
I and the @pioneer_fund team are proud to have backed them since the beginning.
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Justin Olshavsky retweeted
Personal update-- I joined @tacitlabsco back in March!
What we are building: right now, general LLMs aren’t good enough at drug discovery and development to build autonomously along the whole funnel. We map that space granularly and build long-horizon tasks that can tell you where and when they should be trusted. Our goal is to build the infrastructure for an autonomous zero-person biotech.
Why I joined: within my first month at Tacit, we committed to immediately increasing our pace by 20x to make an impossible delivery in 3 weeks. My motto here became “do it or die trying”, and we did not die. I’ve been continually impressed by @ninklefitz's future-prediction, @AmDroste's godlike operational force, @maxisawesome538's 100x engineering builds, and how much this crew brings out the smartest, most dedicated version of each of us.
What we’ve done: collaborated with @OpenAI to build the world’s largest real-world-relevant life sciences benchmark for LLMs, LifeSciBench. Our full time team is 4 people, plus 173 dedicated scientific experts.
Message me if you need evals or you want to join us!
Justin Olshavsky retweeted
The Top Investors in Black Flag's top 100 startups list (as selected by 500 founders).
@pioneer_fund at #3 after YC and a16z, above Lux, Khosla, Felicis, and Founders Fund.
Justin Olshavsky retweeted
many of the most valuable assets in the world are illegible.
intelligent systems can now discover value that would otherwise remain latent, directing resources to promising ideas & creating abundance.
proud to support @apoorva_mehta, @olshav, & @LakshAithani to find them
Justin Olshavsky retweeted
it's been exhilarating being a day 0 investor & partner with @apoorva_mehta @LakshAithani and @olshav as they build ABUNDANCE. Agentic harnesses, next gen reasoning models, and an unabashed hunt for rapid iteration and dispassionate truth seeking will upend global markets -- starting with the deeply technical and often scientifically opaque (think: rvmd, sk hynix, and sndk over the last 24 months). work we've seen pioneered at ABUNDANCE has changed our thinking internally at @_DimensionCap and our view on how to invest and what to build for the coming decade
the team is hiring for an extremely small number of three-sigma+ builers and polymaths. if that is you, you'll know how to get in touch
Justin Olshavsky retweeted
@Dhruv_Sumathi and I made something :)
we’ve been filming the beauty of organ preservation research at @untillabs for a while now. it’s not an explainer or company video, it’s a window into how it feels to work on this problem from the inside.