Kal Vepuri

Founder & CEO

2018

Hero enables high retention virtual care by automating in-home medication and supplement management device for individuals in their home. Our healthcare provider partners offer amongst the highest quality, highest retention, highest satisfaction, highest growth, most profitable remote care offerings available to patients.

Founder

2009

Holdco for my personal investments. We are typically a direct investor in (pre)seed stage vertical AI, marketplaces, networks and saas in fintech, healthcare services, enterprise/SMB and consumer. We do invest in hardware and hard/deep tech (robotics, fiber optics, space, semiconductors, energy, digital infrastructure). LP investments in sub $50MM pre-seed, seed and Series A funds. Growth and PE investments in biotech, hard/deep tech, fintech and AI enabled services. Directly seeded 15 unicorns, 2 decacorns with 11 IPOs. Pre/seed portfolio: Gusto, Docker, DuckDuckGo, Sweetgreen ($SG), Astranis, Arcadia, Warby Parker ($WRBY), Oscar ($OSCR), ClassPass (Mindbody), Harry’s, SeatGeek, Hero, Reformation (Permira), Mirror ($LULU), Algorand ($ALGO), Stacks ($STX), Tagomi ($COIN), Dataminr, Bolt, MakerBot ($SSYS), SmartThings (Samsung), Artsy, Heyday, Breadless and others. Venture/growth stage investor in Facebook, Uber, Pinterest ($PINS), Coinbase ($COIN), Datadog, Peloton, Deliveroo, Trulia ($Z), Color Health, Filecoin ($FIL), and XPO Logistics ($XPO). Early advisor to Tagomi ($COIN), Dataminr, Bolt, Sweetgreen ($SG), Heyday, and Breadless.

Student, Engineer, Founder

1997 - 2009

Investor

2006 - 2009

Late stage healthcare leveraged buyouts.

Associate Consultant

2004 - 2006