Max Luo

Principal

2024

Investor

2020 - 2024

Investments: - Healthcare: Brightside, Lindus Health (angel), Tandem Health (angel), unannounced pharma tech co - Consumer: Partiful, Oops Finance, Ever/Body, SoLo Funds, Socket (acquired), Huddles/Clash (acquired) - Enterprise: Forma.ai, Modal (angel), Owner.com (angel) - Fintech: MyMo, Pier Finance

Incubations

2020 - 2020

Incubated new ideas with Mark Pincus (founder of Zynga). Main project was a new UGC gaming platform that was in between Minecraft (low complexity) and Roblox (high complexity). Found + hired a top-grossing Roblox dev to build an MVP.

Strategy

2019 - 2020

Helped launch moonshots. Formerly known as Google X. Public projects include Waymo, Wing, Verily, Chronicle, and Loon. On secondment from McKinsey.

Consulting

2017 - 2020

Growth & innovation strategy in tech & healthcare. Example projects: + Consumer tech product strategy: business case + roadmap of a new healthcare product, for leading Silicon Valley consumer tech company + Digital health M&A: evaluated 50+ digital patient engagement startups for M&A, for a $15B drug distributor + Pharma-co M&A due diligence: $7B+ acquisition of a pharma-co with technology assets + Clinical research software growth: conducted portfolio review of 20+ products and prioritized advanced products (data science, genomics) for a $6B SaaS company

Product Management

2017 - 2017

Summer Analyst

2016 - 2016

Research Assistant

2014 - 2016

Researched how celebrity announcements of cancer diagnoses affect public utilization rates of mammograms and colonoscopies, with Prof. Katy Milkman and Prof. Kevin Volpp

Quality Improvement Data Analyst

2015 - 2015

Data analyst for quality improvement + hospital operations projects