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Deena Shakir

General Partner at Lux Capital

San Francisco Bay Area

Education

Work Experience

  • General Partner

    2022

  • Partner

    2019 - 2022

    With over $5B AUM, we are an interdisciplinary team that pairs equally well with Nobel laureates and techno punks. We connect with misfits, contrarians and iconoclasts who thrive in the chaos of breakthrough-making and hate being told what to do. I am particularly interested in supporting gritty entrepreneurs building breakthrough companies enabling human and environmental health, access, and productivity.

  • Lecturer in Management

    2021

  • Board Member

    2022

  • Board of Directors

    2021

    Co-led Series D with Dragoneer, joining existing investors Sequoia, Oak, Icon Ventures

  • Board of Directors

    2021

    Led seed and co-lead Series A in leading company developing an AI platform to improve fertility care and outcomes.

  • Lead Investor

    2022

2021

  • Board of Directors

    2021

    Led $25M Series B in March 2021

  • Board of Directors

    2022

2022

  • Board of Directors

    2022

2019

  • Board of Directors

    2019

    First institutional capital and led series Seed