How I Raised My First Dollar with Arvind Gupta

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10- Jun-2021

101 LGBTQIA+ in Tech, Business & Storytelling

“Never allow yourself to be made a victim or bullied into silence. Define yourself without using or accepting others' definitions. I speak my name.” – Mike Fountain, Associate VP of Operations at BA...

Arvind Gupta is a General Partner at SOSV and the founder and managing director of IndieBio. He spends his days empowering scientists to bring groundbreaking biotech innovations to life through a unique, insensitive accelerator. Aside from his work as a VC, he’s also a designer, a father, a husband, and a lifelong athlete. He’s inspired to create change that will impact the problems facing our planet and lives by a simple mantra which he also imparts on his children: create more than you consume. Arvind shares how he landed in biotech, what drives him as a venture capitalist, and how he raised his first fund.