Vasudev Bailey

Venture Capital

📍 San Francisco, California, United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 21 investments📅 10 years investing🗓 Last invested Jan 2025𝕏 @upgrade_to_unlock
VC🌍 United States20+ investments
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Board Observer
Feb 2022
We sequence proteins. Glyphic Biotechnologies is a biotechnology startup revolutionizing the field of proteomics. While DNA can reveal biological insights, proteins actually tell us what our bodies will do. We are developing a first-of-its-kind, next-generation protein sequencing platform to enable researchers to gain novel insights into biology and disease.
Investor
2022
Our Gene Writing™ technology advances genetic medicine beyond its current limitations. Learn more at http://TesseraTherapeutics.com
Investor
Dec 2021
Science Corporation is a clinical-stage medical technology company. We work to restore quality of life to those with debilitating conditions for which there are no treatment options, creating devices aimed at restoring vision, cognition, and mobility to patients who have lost it. To support progress across our industry, we provide state-of-the-art components and vertically integrated infrastructure for others to build on via Science Foundry. Headquartered in Alameda, California, with offices in Paris, France.
early stageBiotechnology
Board Member
Aug 2021
Delix Therapeutics is applying modern tools of pharmaceutical development to some of natures most ancient therapies, psychedelics. Through its discovery platform, Delix has identified a new class of non-hallucinogenic versions of psychedelic compounds with favorable safety and therapeutic profiles. Delix is rapidly advancing these psychoplastogen compounds through preclinical and clinical development, with the goal of one day alleviating mental suffering through its FDA-approved, take-home medicines.
early stageBiotechnology
Investor
Mar 2021
About ViaCyte ViaCyte is a privately held regenerative medicine company developing novel cell replacement therapies as potential long-term diabetes treatments to achieve glucose control targets and reduce the risk of hypoglycemia and diabetes-related complications. ViaCyte’s product candidates are based on directed differentiation of pluripotent stem cells into PEC-01 pancreatic islet progenitor cells, which are then implanted in durable and retrievable cell delivery devices. ViaCyte demonstrated that when effectively engrafted, PEC-01 cells can mature into glucose-responsive insulin producing cells in patients with type 1 diabetes. To accelerate and expand its efforts, ViaCyte has established collaborative partnerships with leading companies including CRISPR Therapeutics and W.L. Gore & Associates. About ViaCyte’s Pipeline The PEC-Direct product candidate, currently being evaluated in the clinic, delivers ViaCyte’s PEC-01 cells (pancreatic islet progenitor cells) in a non-immunoprotective device and is being developed for type 1 diabetes patients who have hypoglycemia unawareness, extreme glycemic lability, and/or recurrent severe hypoglycemic episodes. The PEC-Encap (also known as VC-01) product candidate, also undergoing clinical evaluation, delivers the same pancreatic islet progenitor cells but in an immunoprotective device. PEC-Encap is being developed for all patients with type 1 diabetes. In collaboration with CRISPR Therapeutics, ViaCyte is developing immune-evasive stem cell lines from its proprietary CyT49 cell line. These immune-evasive stem cell lines, which are being used in the PEC-QT program, have the potential to further broaden the availability of cell therapy for all patients with insulin-requiring diabetes, type 1 and type 2. In addition, a pluripotent, immune evasive cell line has the potential to be used to produce any cell in the body, thus enabling many other potential indications.
Investor
2021
At Cerebral, we’re on a mission to democratize access to high-quality mental health care. We believe that everyone everywhere deserves to get the care they need, and are striving to make care convenient and accessible, while tackling the stigmas that surround mental illness. Since launching in January 2020, we have gone from a team of 5 to over 4,000 across the United States. With support from investors like SoftBank, Silver Lake, Access Industries, Bill Ackman, WestCap, and others, and impactful leaders like you, we’ll continue to democratize mental health care and double down on clinical quality and deliver exceptional patient outcomes for years to come. With a heavy focus on clinical quality and safety in all that we do, we’ve accomplished excellent patient outcomes: • 82% of patients report an improvement in their anxiety symptoms after using Cerebral. • 75% of patients who report improvement in their depression see improvement within 60 days. • 50% of patients who initially report suicidal ideation no longer harbor suicidal thoughts after treatment with Cerebral. This is just the beginning for Cerebral, and we won’t stop building, growing, and iterating until everyone, everywhere can access high-quality evidence-based mental health care without high costs and/or long wait times. We’re looking for mission-driven leaders who share these values, and we need your help as we transform access to high-quality mental health care in the United States and beyond.
Investor
2021
Building a smarter roadmap for precision therapeutics.
Board Observer
2021
Seed Health is a microbiome science company pioneering applications of microbes for human and planetary health. In collaboration with leading academic researchers, we advance breakthrough discoveries in microbial sciences across a pipeline of novel therapeutics, consumer health innovations and environmental solutions. All consumer innovations in probiotics are commercialized under Seed®.
mid stageBiotechnology
Board Member
2021
Outpace is creating cell therapies with curative potential through protein design and cellular engineering. With an initial focus on solid tumors, Outpace is developing technologies that overcome the barriers to efficacy and safety by programming cells to make the right decisions inside patients. Outpace’s suite of technologies drive persistent activity of the cell therapy (OutLast™), recruit a productive immune response in the tumor microenvironment (OutSmart™), and achieve the potency (OutSpacers™), specificity (Co-LOCKR™), and safety (EGFRopt™) necessary to unlock diverse cancer indications. Outpace’s internal and partnered pipeline approach is optimized for rapid clinical validation of its technologies across diverse cell types and manufacturing processes. At Outpace Bio, we believe that the highest performing teams include people from a wide variety of backgrounds and experiences who respectfully challenge each other. We are committed to building an open, diverse, and inclusive culture for all employees.
Investor
Jul 2020
Our mission is to not only break down the barriers that limit people from getting quality healthcare, but to transform the primary care experience and make personalized healthcare, powered by genetic and non-genetic data, a reality. We’re changing healthcare by offering on-demand telehealth services and building a unique healthcare platform that focuses on prevention and wellness. We foster a collaborative environment where every team member is essential to our mission. By joining the team, your impact will be felt from day one. We’re making a difference in one of the most rapidly-growing industries and we need curious, collaborative and driven people like you to help us change the future of healthcare.
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Dec 2019
Climax is creating the future of food with its deep plant intelligence, a proprietary machine learning approach to creating foods by unlocking smarter paths from plants to products, creating a new generation of plant-based foods that will out-compete animal-based predecessors on taste, nutrition, environmental impact and cost.
Board Member
Sep 2019
Unlocking the potential of macrocycle drug discovery through machine learning and massively parallel synthesis
early stageBiotechnology
Investor
Jul 2019
Freenome is a high-growth biotech company on a mission since 2014 to create tools that empower everyone to prevent, detect, and treat their disease. To achieve this mission, Freenome is developing next-generation blood tests to detect cancer in its earliest, most treatable stages using our multiomics platform and machine learning techniques. Our first blood test will detect early-stage colorectal cancer and advanced adenomas. We have raised more than $1.1 billion from leading investors like Perceptive Advisors, RA Capital Management, Roche Venture Fund, Kaiser Permanente, Novartis and the American Cancer Society’s BrightEdge Ventures. A ‘Freenomer’ is a mission-driven employee who is fueled by the opportunity to make a positive impact on patients lives, who thrives in a culture of respect and cross collaboration, and whose work makes a significant impact on the company and their career.
Board Member
2019
Aether Biomachines is an American artificial intelligence company that discovers proteins with high-impact, real-world applications. At the core of its work is a Protein Function Model that can unlock new proteins for novel functions. Aether’s AI is being built on an entirely proprietary dataset developed in-house through advanced high-throughput screening and innovative assay technology. Using this platform, Aether has developed seven new classes of proteins with capabilities ranging from refining metals at lower cost and breaking down persistent “forever chemicals” to producing industry-leading materials, enabling complex pharmaceutical manufacturing, recycling plastics, and capturing carbon dioxide. Aether is already translating its AI breakthroughs into practice, commercializing high-performance materials that can print ten times faster than current industry benchmarks while offering superior strength for the defense and aerospace industries.
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2024
Hologen builds multimodal foundation models, spanning real-world 3D imaging, clinical, genetic and omics data, for high-precision interventional inference in its growing portfolio of late-stage therapeutic programmes.
2022
Board Observer
Feb 2022
We sequence proteins. Glyphic Biotechnologies is a biotechnology startup revolutionizing the field of proteomics. While DNA can reveal biological insights, proteins actually tell us what our bodies will do. We are developing a first-of-its-kind, next-generation protein sequencing platform to enable researchers to gain novel insights into biology and disease.
Investor
2022
Our Gene Writing™ technology advances genetic medicine beyond its current limitations. Learn more at http://TesseraTherapeutics.com
2021
Investor
Dec 2021
Science Corporation is a clinical-stage medical technology company. We work to restore quality of life to those with debilitating conditions for which there are no treatment options, creating devices aimed at restoring vision, cognition, and mobility to patients who have lost it. To support progress across our industry, we provide state-of-the-art components and vertically integrated infrastructure for others to build on via Science Foundry. Headquartered in Alameda, California, with offices in Paris, France.
early stageBiotechnology
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