Iana Dimkova

Co-Founder & General Partner at Initiate

📍 San Francisco Bay Area, United States🔄 Updated October 2026💼 10 investments📅 9 years investing🗓 Last invested Jan 2022
VC🌍 United States
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Board Member
2022
Macro Trials is the precision research clinical platform, driving increased research velocity and an amplified patient experience to unlock value for all stakeholders in the clinical trial ecosystem. Via its digitally powered infrastructure and "hub-and-spoke" distributed model, Macro partners with pharmaceutical companies, CROs, providers, and health systems to conduct trials for high-value therapeutics. The company’s turnkey platform empowers physicians to participate in groundbreaking research via workflow-native efficiency tools, clinical research personnel and a network of logistic partners. Macro’s clinical trial intelligence platform and proprietary real-world evidence as a service (RWEaaS) product supports life sciences companies in all aspects of therapeutic research, development, and commercialization.
Board Member
2021
Healthcare data is messy. We all know it. Datasets are often riddled with errors, inconsistencies and missing values, requiring data science teams to spend countless hours cleaning data before analyzing it. The Cornerstone AI assistant is purpose-built to clean RWD. Its proprietary machine learning models automatically generate unique clinically relevant data cleaning rules for every dataset. The Cornerstone AI assistant learns the structure and connections across data sources, harmonizing the structure. ML models then identify and correct errors, which are applied automatically or guided through our UI for optimal balance of scalability and nuance.
Board Member
Sep 2018
The proven software platform for cell and gene therapy supply chain management. From the beginning, Vineti’s founders have understood the challenges that biotech and pharmaceutical innovators face in developing personalized therapies. Vineti’s Personalized Therapy Management (PTM®) platform is the essential enterprise software to drive and scale global personalized therapies, such as cell therapies, gene therapies, and cancer vaccines. PTM® connects the right patient to the right product, on time and on track.
Board Member
Sep 2018
Evidation creates new ways to measure and improve health in everyday life—making proactive, personalized, and truly human-centered healthcare possible. By connecting directly with millions of individuals, Evidation harnesses real-world data to deeply understand health experiences, rapidly and at scale. Evidation’s privacy-centric digital health measurement and engagement platform uses data science and machine learning to translate these everyday insights into high-impact health guidance, treatments, and tools. Founded in 2012, Evidation is headquartered in California with employees working around the globe.
Board Member
Nov 2017
Our vision is a world where genomic information is fully accessible, understandable and integrated into health and well being. As a leading telegenetics care delivery company, we make genetic care accessible and actionable for patients throughout the U.S. and Canada through seven-day a week access to genetic services. By partnering with health systems, providers, labs and biopharmaceutical companies, we expand the reach and impact of genomic medicine. We help our partners deliver clinical risk assessments for patients, genetic test recommendations and ordering, pre- and post-test genetic counseling through our team of expert genetic counselors, and personalized care plans. Our advisory services team uses an evidence-based approach to help partners evaluate and develop scalable, efficient and successful genetics programs.
Board Member
Jul 2017
Gravie is one of the fastest growing health benefits companies, offering health plans that cover 100% of costs on the most common healthcare services. We work primarily with small and midsize employers, who for too long have had limited choices and few ways to self-fund their employee health plans. If youre an employer or benefits professional interested in learning more about Gravie, contact us at info@gravie.com.
mid stageInsurance
Board Member
Jan 2017
HealthReveal is a clinical AI company dedicated to improving outcomes and quality of life for patients with chronic disease by enabling clinicians to deliver the most effective evidence-based treatments tailored to each patient’s unique circumstances, every time. By using machine learning and bridging each patient’s information with the latest medical guidelines, we predict individual patient health risks and disease progression and prescribe individual treatment interventions to mitigate risks, improve quality and reduce costs. - Follow us on Twitter: @healthreveal - Visit us at: https://www.healthreveal.com/ - Get in Touch: info@healthreveal.com
Board Member
2017
Gravie is one of the fastest growing health benefits companies, offering health plans that cover 100% of costs on the most common healthcare services. We work primarily with small and midsize employers, who for too long have had limited choices and few ways to self-fund their employee health plans. If youre an employer or benefits professional interested in learning more about Gravie, contact us at info@gravie.com.
mid stageInsurance
Board Member
2017
HealthReveal is a clinical AI company dedicated to improving outcomes and quality of life for patients with chronic disease by enabling clinicians to deliver the most effective evidence-based treatments tailored to each patient’s unique circumstances, every time. By using machine learning and bridging each patient’s information with the latest medical guidelines, we predict individual patient health risks and disease progression and prescribe individual treatment interventions to mitigate risks, improve quality and reduce costs. - Follow us on Twitter: @healthreveal - Visit us at: https://www.healthreveal.com/ - Get in Touch: info@healthreveal.com
Board Member
2017
Our vision is a world where genomic information is fully accessible, understandable and integrated into health and well being. As a leading telegenetics care delivery company, we make genetic care accessible and actionable for patients throughout the U.S. and Canada through seven-day a week access to genetic services. By partnering with health systems, providers, labs and biopharmaceutical companies, we expand the reach and impact of genomic medicine. We help our partners deliver clinical risk assessments for patients, genetic test recommendations and ordering, pre- and post-test genetic counseling through our team of expert genetic counselors, and personalized care plans. Our advisory services team uses an evidence-based approach to help partners evaluate and develop scalable, efficient and successful genetics programs.
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2022
Board Member
2022
Macro Trials is the precision research clinical platform, driving increased research velocity and an amplified patient experience to unlock value for all stakeholders in the clinical trial ecosystem. Via its digitally powered infrastructure and "hub-and-spoke" distributed model, Macro partners with pharmaceutical companies, CROs, providers, and health systems to conduct trials for high-value therapeutics. The company’s turnkey platform empowers physicians to participate in groundbreaking research via workflow-native efficiency tools, clinical research personnel and a network of logistic partners. Macro’s clinical trial intelligence platform and proprietary real-world evidence as a service (RWEaaS) product supports life sciences companies in all aspects of therapeutic research, development, and commercialization.
2021
Board Member
2021
Healthcare data is messy. We all know it. Datasets are often riddled with errors, inconsistencies and missing values, requiring data science teams to spend countless hours cleaning data before analyzing it. The Cornerstone AI assistant is purpose-built to clean RWD. Its proprietary machine learning models automatically generate unique clinically relevant data cleaning rules for every dataset. The Cornerstone AI assistant learns the structure and connections across data sources, harmonizing the structure. ML models then identify and correct errors, which are applied automatically or guided through our UI for optimal balance of scalability and nuance.
2020
Venture Partner
2020
We make high-conviction, early-stage investments in health tech. When we back a founder, we commit to bringing a bunch of things to the table: - vigorous understanding of both healthcare and broader markets to stimulate productive convos ‍- dedicated Go-to-Market approach and resources to accelerate market adoption - robust network of customer, advisor, and talent to support the founder on the (textured) journey ahead
Venture Partner Network (Member)
2020
For founders whove built something special, were the growth equity firm that understands what that actually means and can help you achieve whatever your “next” is.
Co-Founder, Initiate Studios & General Partner, Initiate Ventures
2020
INITIATE funds and co-creates transformational companies - We focus on bold ideas at the intersection of healthcare, life sciences and technology - We are entrepreneurs and investors who have founded numerous market-defining companies - We dedicate ourselves to only a few founding teams at a time and commit to their success
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