Nandini Tandon

Dr. Nandini Tandon, Ph.D. is a Silicon Valley, CA, based venture capitalist, for past seventeen years investing in transformational solutions, harnessing critical and emerging technologies for unmet clinical needs to mitigate the impact of paucity of both medical professionals and infrastructure resources, regardless of geographical location, providing valuable health insights, and leveling the playing field.

Nandini brings deep domain, multi-disciplinary, expertise to her investments, from a wide array of industries, across Pharma, Biotech, MedTech, and Semiconductor, having gained invaluable experience from global industry leaders such as GlaxoWellcome, Chiron, Hyseq, Zyomyx and Microelectronic Center of North Carolina (MCNC) respectively. 

As a venture capitalist, Nandini has had a very successful track record. She made twelve investments with eleven exits, nine portfolio companies being acquired by market leaders such as Pfizer, Gilead, Amgen, General Electric and 2 companies following the IPO route.  Dr. Tandon was Managing Director, Lumira/MDS Capital in Palo Alto with 1.2 billion USD under management and before that was Partner, RBC Capital Partners, in San Francisco, responsible for establishing both the VC offices in the Bay Area. 

Prior to being a venture capitalist, she was Chief Business Officer for Zyomyx Inc., an innovative company, founded by Stanford University’s scientists, by converging two critical industries, semiconductor and Medtech. She was Vice President of Business Development for Hyseq Inc. and was with corporate development at Chiron Corp. 
At GlaxoWellcome she launched Zofran and Imitrex and was a researcher at the premiere Semiconductor Think tank, Microelectronic Center of North Carolina, RTP, NC.

Dr. Tandon, strong champion of democratization of healthcare, inclusion of women-led developments, and economic equity, received in 2015 the Pravasi Bharatiya Samman Award, an honor conferred by President of India, for her investments in life-saving technologies; in 2016 she received Uttar Pradesh Ratna award, and in 2017, Women of Excellence Award, in USA.

Nandini Chaired,”20/20 Vision: Investing in USA & Emerging Markets” at Stanford University, was Board Member, University of California, Berkeley, Center for Emerging and Neglected Diseases; Board Member, C21 Bio Ventures; and has been on 14 for profit boards and 15 not for profit board. 

Additionally, Nandini has been on multiple global, private, public, for profit and not for profit boards, across US, UK, Netherlands, UAE, and India. Presently, she is advisor to Stanford University’s Byers Center for Bio Design and Center for Innovation in Global Health, is on the board of Bay Area Economic Council Institute, the premier US economic think tank, board member of MedTherapy Biotech, is on the board of MCI Inc., an AI for EQ company, is Board Member of QB3, Quantitative Biology, (UCSF, UC Berkeley, UC Santa Cruz), is on Board of Advisors to Maker Bhavan Foundation and is on the Leadership Council of Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar, IIT GN.

Dr. Tandon is co-founder of IndUS Setu Global Foundation, a 27-year-old, not-for-profit, bridging borders and catalyzing change, to prioritize equitable human health improvement, inclusive women leadership, and climate remediation. She was the Vice Chair of El Camino Hospital, in Silicon Valley. It is the world’s most technologically advanced hospital. As board member on hospitals in USA, UK, GCC, and India, she has taken a strong leadership position during and post Covid to ensure public health is addressed equitably.

Nandini has spoken globally on areas of her focus; she was speaker at Davos, as a woman leader in STEM, was a delegate and speaker for Global Entrepreneurship Summit, GES, in Hague and Hyderabad under President Trump and at GES in Turkey and Dubai, under President Obama’s leadership.

A White House Intern, Nandini received Ph.D. in biochemistry, Phi Lambda Upsilon from Duke University, North Carolina and B.A. cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa from Hollins University, Virginia. She holds a global patent in semiconductor. Dr. Tandon lives with her husband and son in the Bay Area, CA.