Jay Rughani

Jay Rughani is a partner at Andreessen Horowitz who leads health technology investments. He grew up mostly in the Tampa Bay area of Florida, joined the firm in 2018 after early product work at Flatiron Health, and has helped build its Bio + Health practice.

Growing Up in Tampa Bay

He grew up mostly in Tampa Bay, Florida, aside from three years at a boarding school in London. He graduated from Emory University with a degree in mathematics and economics.

Early Days at Flatiron Health

He co-founded a startup with a college roommate that did not succeed. He worked at Dealermatch, a seed-stage marketplace later acquired by Cox Enterprises, and consulted for healthcare and technology companies at Deloitte. He was an early employee at Flatiron Health, an electronic health record and real-world evidence company that Roche acquired for about $2 billion. There he helped build some of the first software and data products and later led commercial partnerships.

He joined in 2018. Over the following eight years he helped build the Bio + Health practice. Investments include Alchemy, Alleviate, Aradigm, Backbone, Counsel, Ferry, Gravity, Inductive, Komodo, Leona, Midstream, Orchestra, Pearl, Prosper, Tennr, Thatch, Thyme, Turquoise, and Valar.

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