Harikesh Pushpapathan.

About me.

  • Partner @ Stoic VC; an early stage fund investing in health + compute + physical world. To do this, we partner with AU’s University commercialisation arm Uniseed.
  • Say hello to my Healthcare AI Analyst Zeno. If you’d like to trial, send me a note.
  • Prior to this, I spent a few years investing personally, at other funds, fundraising for startups and building a webapp for psychologists.
  • When I’m not investing or recovering from sporting injuries, I love to write – both in music and blogging.If you’re a little strange, lets chat.

What I do.

Hoffman lays it out best:

…..venture capital investing is an exercise in “predictive anthropology.” We’re forecasting what the landscape of market demand, competition, and products/services will look like in the future.

Truths.

  1. Curiosity has a longer shelf life than passion.
  2. Surprise is a necessary condition of beauty.
  3. There is magic in the ordinary.
  4. In a world infatuated with optimisation, find a few things you care about.
  5. Do things that won’t compute. The difference between stupidity and intelligence is whether you stop at n, or n+1.

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Personal Bets.

  • Paraform - first money
  • Inventia Life Science - good money
  • Diagnose-io - pre-seed
  • O3 - pre-seed
  • Nextgen Ventures - fund I
  • Stealth BCI - first money
  • Stealth AI Music Therapeutic - first money

Progress.

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Age: 26

Adjusted Age: 45

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