Rachel Kobayashi

Associate at Ironwood Venture Partners | ex-Databricks

Ironwood Venture Partners

Washington, DC · ET (UTC-5)

5+ years experience

Virginia Tech

English, Arabic

Investing

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Overview

5 years around startups; now investing in healthcare. Led or co-led 31 investments, 6 of them now at Series B or later. Most at home with healthtech and regulation.

Good reasons to reach out

Founders building in employment law
Questions about employment law
Thoughtful intros to people in my field

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Unpaid work or spec projects

Skills

venture capitalregulationhealthtechbiotech

InvestingLooking to invest

closes in 3 months

Writing $250k cheques into pre-seed healthcare in MENA

Cheque size: $250k
Stages: Pre-seed, Seed
Sectors: Employment law
Geographies: India
Lead or follow: Lead
Decision time: One meeting and a partner call
How I help: First enterprise customers and pricing

Usually the first cheque in. Portfolio support on pricing and enterprise sales.

Washington, DCventure capitalbiotechregulation

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Experience

Associate
Jul 2022 - Present
Ironwood Venture Partners · 4 yr 3 mo · Full-time · Washington, DC
- Negotiated 109 commercial agreements a year.
- Secured 7 payments licences.
- Built the privacy programme for launches in 7 countries.
FP&A Manager
Oct 2021 - Jul 2022
Databricks · 9 mo · Full-time · Washington, DC
- Ran diligence on 7 acquisitions.

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Education

Virginia Tech
BS, Economics
2017 - 2021

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