More About Justin
Justin Larkin, MD, is an investing partner on the Bio + Health team, where he focuses on healthtech, spanning both verticalized care delivery and horizontal infrastructure approaches. He helped lead investments and is involved with a number of the Bio + Health portfolio companies including Akasa, Ambience, Bold, Devoted, Firefly Health, Levels, Omada, Marley Medical, Memora, Patina, Q Bio, Sprinter, Tomorrow Health, Waymark, and Zus.
Before joining a16z, Justin led the Strategy and Ops org at Verily (healthcare/life sciences arm of Alphabet), working across their care delivery, software analytics, and connected devices products. Prior to that, Justin was a cofounder and product/clinical lead at Wellsheet, a healthtech company focused on using ML to enable digital workflows for physicians.
Justin holds an MD from the University of Pennsylvania, where he was a founding member of PennHealthX, an endowed program for cross-disciplinary training in clinical medicine and health technology/entrepreneurship. Justin also holds an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business, as well as a BS/BA from BYU in developmental biology and Portuguese, respectively. When not obsessing over the future of healthtech, Justin can usually be found playing zone defense against his three little kids, chasing backcountry snow, or exploring the California coast.
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