Investing Profile

Justin Kao

InvestorVC

Partner at DFJ Growth

dfjgrowth.com/people/justin-k...San Francisco Bay Area

Your Intro Paths to Justin Kao

Signal uses Gmail to reveal intro paths. Email content is never read.

Networks Justin is a member of

Stanford University Network

1411 CONNECTIONS

Stanford University Network

1411 CONNECTIONS

Stanford University Graduate School of Business Network

578 CONNECTIONS

Boston Consulting Group (BCG) Network

463 CONNECTIONS

Khosla Ventures Network

59 CONNECTIONS

Find Justin Kao on

Current Investing Position

DFJ Growth Partner

Investment Range

$100K - $5.0M

Sweet Spot

$1.5M

Investments On Record

Current Fund Size

$535M

Justin Kao is on these Sector & Stage Rankings

Medical Devices (Seed)Pharmaceuticals (Seed)Medical Devices (Series A)Pharmaceuticals (Series A)Health IT (Series A)Health & Hospital Services (Series A)San Francisco Bay Area Health IT (Seed)Digital Health (Series A)Digital Health (Seed)Health & Hospital Services (Seed)

Justin Kao's Investments On Record (4)

Company	StageDateRound Size	Total Raised
Paradigm	Series BDec 2025$78M	$320M
Co-investors: Hemant Taneja (General Catalyst), Balaji Srinivasan (Andreessen Horowitz), Niko Bonatsos (General Catalyst), Elena Viboch (General Catalyst), Max Rimpel (General Catalyst), David Schenkein (GV (Google Ventures)), Bilal Zuberi (Lux Capital), Brett Cook (F-Prime Capital Partners), Scott Belsky (A24), Ramnik Arora (Original Capital), Arash Ferdowsi (Dropbox), Eoghan McCabe (Spark-Local, Inc), Jay Markowitz (ARCH Venture Partners), Stephen Knight (F-Prime Capital (formerly Fidelity Biosciences)), Robert Nelsen (ARCH Venture Partners), Alaa Halawa (Mubadala), Jared Friedman (Y Combinator), Karim Atiyeh
DELFI Diagnostics	Series BJul 2022$230M	$330M
Co-investors: Greg Yap (Menlo Ventures), Rishi Gupta (OrbiMed)
Osmind	Series BMay 2022$40M	$59M
Co-investors: Joshua Kushner (Thrive Capital), Hammad Aslam (Susa Ventures), Candace Richardson (General Catalyst), Derick En'Wezoh (Susa Ventures), Katherine Boyle (Andreessen Horowitz), Akshay Sriprasad (Valley Ridge Capital), Alice Zhang (Princeton University Investment Company), Stephen Hays (What If Ventures), Lachy Groom (Physical Intelligence), Adrian Aoun (500 Startups Korea), Maryanna Saenko (Baruch Future Ventures)
Earli	Series AJan 2021$40M	$61M
Co-investors: Jorge Conde (Andreessen Horowitz), Deep Nishar (General Catalyst), Vinod Khosla (Khosla Ventures), Marc Andreessen (Andreessen Horowitz), Greg Yap (Menlo Ventures), Jack Abraham (Atomico), Anna Fang (ZhenFund 真格基金), Othman Laraki (Frontier Medicines), Eric Ries (O'Reilly Media), Lee Linden (Quiet Capital), Matt Murphy (Kleiner Perkins), Rahul Mehta (DST Global), Ramtin Naimi (Abstract Ventures), Jeffrey Lee (Tailwinds Ventures), David Shapiro (Castor Ventures (an Alumni Ventures Fund)), Marc Benioff

Justin Kao's Experience

Partner DFJ Growth2021 - Present

Associate Boston Consulting Group (BCG)Present

Summer Associate Cooley LLPPresent

Intern, Corporate Development Onyx Pharmaceuticals, Inc., an Amgen subsidiaryPresent

Vice President, Healthcare Warburg Pincus LLCPresent

Partner DFJPresent

Partner Khosla Ventures2020 - 2021

Co-Founder and Chief Business Officer Helix2015 - 2020

Vice President, Healthcare Warburg Pincus2010 - 2015

Intern, Corporate Development Onyx Pharmaceuticals2009 - 2009

Summer Associate Cooley Godward Kronish LLP2008 - 2008

Associate The Boston Consulting Group2005 - 2007

Justin Kao's Education

Stanford University MS Bioengineering

Stanford Law School JD Law

Stanford University BS Chemical Engineering

Stanford University Graduate School of Business MBA Business

Investors who invest with Justin Kao

Scouts & Angels Affiliated With Justin Kao