Twine is a venture capital firm that invests in healthcare systems and climate-impacted industries. Twine focuses on investing in teams developing enabling technologies such as data, AI, and software infrastructure to accelerate transformation in these sectors. The firm takes a targeted approach to supporting mission-driven founders from the early stages of their ventures.

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Twine Ventures is an early stage venture capital firm partnering with mission-driven founders in areas like human health, climate, and financial empowerment. Twine invests primarily at the seed stage with a target investment of $500-750k. 

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Bree Hanson and I couldn't have had a more wonderful time recording our latest episode of DrinksWithAVC 🎙with founder and GP of Twine Ventures' Leshika Samarasinghe.

To everyone in my network - founders and investors alike - this is truly an episode that is filled to the brim with insights and learnings from her career arch from early google product team to public sector energy investing work under Obama's administration to starting her own fund.

🙏 Please watch, listen, like, subscribe, and share - all that good stuff!

Huge thank you to all of our founders, speakers, and limited partners who recently joined us for Twine Ventures' second ever annual meeting! 

We were grateful to learn from Twine portfolio founders transforming human and planetary health, including Sid Viswanathan building tech-enabled pharmacy for 340B, Nicky Kamra making supply chains more sustainable, and Seyed H. Madaeni, Ph.D. procuring clean power for all. 

We also delved into applications of AI in climate with Kerry Whorton Cooper, Board Member of Pacific Gas and Electric Company, Lucas Ackerknecht, CEO of Alpha Grid, and James Shieh, founding engineer at Watershed, and AI in healthcare with Anuradhika A., SVP of Innovation at CommonSpirit Health, Kyna Fong, PhD, CEO of Elation Health, and David Schummers, CEO of Apella.  

We concluded with a fireside chat with Daniela Amodei, President and Co-founder of Anthropic, who shared her philosophy on building AI systems aligned with human values that are helpful, honest, and harmless. 

Finally, we hosted a reception for SF Climate Week alongside our friends at Galvanize Climate Solutions, Innovation Endeavors, J.P. Morgan, and Orrick Tech featuring Evelyn Wang, the Director of ARPA-E, a cornerstone of US innovation policy and critical funding source for transformational climate technologies.  

Inspired by our extended team and look forward to more opportunities to bring this special community together! CC Ethan Yeh

Excited to support the important work of Compass Regulatory in streamlining compliance for the food and agriculture industry, paving the way to bring more climate friendly agricultural inputs to market.

Congratulations to Alchemy on their launch! We are excited to support this seasoned team of mission-driven operators in providing infrastructure for healthcare safety-net providers to build on-site pharmacies, thereby improving outcomes for underserved patients.

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