Mordecai Ventures
New York, NY · Invests in US · Website
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Founder-led seed fund investing at the intersection of healthcare/biotech and fintech, where GPs Linhao Zhang (Formation Bio, AI drug discovery) and Jake Cahan (January, fintech) bring deep operator experience to back early-stage founders in their domains.
Likely not a fit for
Not known to focus on enterprise SaaS, deep consumer apps, or hardware outside of biotech/medtech.
How they invest
- Typical decision
- ~2 weeks
- Warm intro
- Not required
- Involvement
- Advisor
- Fund status
- Actively deploying
- Assets under mgmt
- $775K
- Decision process
- Partnership vote
Partners & team
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