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Deena Shakir is a Partner at Lux Capital, where she invests in transformative technologies improving lives and livelihoods. She is particularly interested in intersectional and underdog entrepreneurs building breakthrough companies to accelerate advances and equity in human and population health.
Since joining Lux in late 2019, Deena has led a number of investments across stages and sectors, including in women's health (Maven Clinic, Alife, Gameto, Adyn), digital health infrastructure (SteadyMD, H1, AllStripes), health equity (Waymark), foodtech (Shiru), and fintech (Mos, Ramp, Neo.tax).
Prior to joining Lux, Deena was a Partner at GV (formerly Google Ventures), previously led product partnerships at Google for early stage products in healthcare, AI/ML and search at Google, and directed social impact investments at Google.org. She was a Presidential Management Fellow at the U.S. Department of State under Secretary Clinton, where she helped launch President Obama’s first Global Entrepreneurship Summit in 2010. Deena's non-traditional path has cultivated her deep conviction in the potential of breakthrough ventures to positively transform the future and garnered her unparalleled network to help them achieve it.
A Forbes contributor, Deena is a frequent speaker and commentator and has been featured on television on Bloomberg, CNBC, and NBC, in print in the Wall Street Journal, Fortune, Techcrunch, Marie Claire, and more. She was named a "top 30 under 40 in healthcare" by Business Insider, "top 9 women to watch in venture capital" by The Wall Street Journal, and "Top 50 in Digital Health" by Rock Health. She is a member of Fortune's Most Powerful Women, Kauffman Fellows, Aspen Finance Fellows and The Council on Foreign Relations, and All Raise.
Deena self-funded her education through a variety of merit scholarships and side hustles, including co-founding her first company while still in college. She earned a joint BA in Social Studies and Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations from Harvard (where she delivered the graduation address) and an MA from Georgetown’s School of Foreign Service. She is currently a Lecturer in Management at the Stanford Graduate School of Business and a Board Director for the National Venture Capital Association.
Twitter: @deenashakir
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