Neda Amidi

Mom | Autism Advocate | Investor

📍 United States🔄 Updated October 2026💼 2 investments📅 9 years investing🗓 Last invested Jan 2018
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Jan 2018
Visby Medical is transforming the order of diagnosis and treatment for infectious diseases so clinicians can test, talk with, and treat the patient in a single visit. The Company developed a proprietary technology platform that is the world’s first instrument-free, single-use PCR platform that fits in the palm of your hand and rapidly tests for serious respiratory and sexually transmitted infections.
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Dec 2017
Owkin is building the first BASI to unlock breakthroughs in therapies, diagnostics, and rejuvenation, while reshaping how humanity understands and engineers biology. Like other frontier AI companies, we believe the leap from narrow tools to true reasoning systems marks the start of a new era — where intelligence is not just assisting scientists but autonomously advancing discovery. Owkin’s moats are structural and compounding. We are creating the only large-scale reasoning model trained natively on patient-level multimodal data and reinforced through real biological feedback — a closed-loop system that continuously improves itself. Exclusive partnerships with world-class hospitals, unique longitudinal datasets, and automated lab infrastructure create a defensibility flywheel similar to the data moats seen in other generational AI companies. By uniting reasoning models, agentic workflows, and living biological systems, Owkin is building the operating system for biology — a platform no one else can replicate, and the inevitable leader in general-purpose biology intelligence.
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2021
President
Jan 2021
Plug and Play is a global innovation platform founded in Silicon Valley in 2006. We connect the people and organizations that drive technology forward, and turn those connections into real business outcomes. We run accelerator programs, facilitate corporate-startup pilots, invest in early-stage companies, and help governments and institutions build innovation ecosystems. Our network includes corporations, startups, investors, universities, and mentors across more than 20 industries and 60 locations worldwide. Since inception, weve accelerated thousands of startups and invested in over 2,500 companies. Our portfolio includes PayPal, Dropbox, LendingClub, Honey, and N26. Industries we work in: Advanced Manufacturing · Aerospace & Defense · Agtech · Animal Health · Brand & Retail · Crypto & Digital Assets · Deeptech · Energy · Enterprise & AI · Fintech · Food & Beverage · Health · Insurtech · Lifetech · Maritime · Media & Advertising · Medtech · Mobility & Physical AI · New Materials & Packaging · Real Estate & Construction · Semiconductors · Smart Cities · Sportstech · Supply Chain · Sustainability · Travel & Hospitality Where we operate: Americas: Silicon Valley · New York · Los Angeles · Washington D.C. · Detroit · Seattle · São Paulo · Alberta Europe: London · Munich · Stuttgart · Paris · Amsterdam · Barcelona · Madrid · Milan · Turin · Gothenburg · Vienna · Istanbul · Antwerp · Vilnius · Tirana · Yerevan · Tbilisi · Limassol · Tashkent Middle East & Africa: Riyadh · Abu Dhabi · Cairo Asia-Pacific: Tokyo · Osaka · Kyoto · Singapore · Seoul · Shanghai · Beijing · Shenzhen · Jakarta · Kuala Lumpur · Phnom Penh · GIFT City
2018
Investor
Jan 2018
Visby Medical is transforming the order of diagnosis and treatment for infectious diseases so clinicians can test, talk with, and treat the patient in a single visit. The Company developed a proprietary technology platform that is the world’s first instrument-free, single-use PCR platform that fits in the palm of your hand and rapidly tests for serious respiratory and sexually transmitted infections.
2017
Investor
Dec 2017
Owkin is building the first BASI to unlock breakthroughs in therapies, diagnostics, and rejuvenation, while reshaping how humanity understands and engineers biology. Like other frontier AI companies, we believe the leap from narrow tools to true reasoning systems marks the start of a new era — where intelligence is not just assisting scientists but autonomously advancing discovery. Owkin’s moats are structural and compounding. We are creating the only large-scale reasoning model trained natively on patient-level multimodal data and reinforced through real biological feedback — a closed-loop system that continuously improves itself. Exclusive partnerships with world-class hospitals, unique longitudinal datasets, and automated lab infrastructure create a defensibility flywheel similar to the data moats seen in other generational AI companies. By uniting reasoning models, agentic workflows, and living biological systems, Owkin is building the operating system for biology — a platform no one else can replicate, and the inevitable leader in general-purpose biology intelligence.
2008
Business Analyst
Aug 2008
Zong is now the leading mobile payments platform for gaming and social networking companies. Zong enables seamless payments for over 1,000 online merchants, including leading social networking, online gaming and digital content companies such as Facebook, IMVU, Gaia Online, Sony Online Entertainment, IAC/Mindspark, Ubisoft, Acclaim, and Konami.