Balaji Srinivasan, who was hired as a general partner by Andreessen Horowitz to help the firm move into new areas, has spearheaded the firm’s first major foray into health-care investing with a $23 million Series B round for digital therapy companyOmada Health, Tim Hay reports for VentureWire. Though Andreessen has backed several consumer-facing health technology companies, the funding for Omada was the first double-digit venture capital round for a company with clinically proven, prescription-based products, and it’s Andreessen’s first board seat at such a company.
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