Zen Chu, Angel Investor

I specialize in building early-stage medical technology and healthcare service companies, usually serving as co-founder, first investor and amateur surgeon. I been lucky to found and serve as first investor in companies alongside fantastic scientists and investors. At MIT since 2010, I created and direct the HST Healthcare Ventures courses and serve as Faculty Advisor for MIT’s Hacking Medicine Initiative. There has never been a better time in history for entrepreneurship to improve patient care given the global tectonic shifts in healthcare incentives, new technologies and growth in emerging markets. Engineers are creating the data, systems and products to help medicine scale to serve more patients with higher quality at lower cost. 4X founder of medical device, biotech, clinical genomics, and healthcare Ai companies alongside renowned scientific cofounders.