Max Luo

Principal

2024

Investments include Decagon, Partiful, Camber, Brightside, unannounced pharma AI co, and others Angel investments include Cartesia AI, Modal Labs, Tandem Health, Lindus Health, and Owner.com

Investor

2020 - 2024

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