Vijay Pande and co-founder Zach Werner in a meeting at VZVC's office
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Vijay Pande on trading a $4B a16z fund for five bets a year — and why biology’s data problem is the real bottleneck

Vijay Pande spent more than a decade building Andreessen Horowitz’s bio fund into a roughly $4 billion practice — then walked away in June 2025 to start something deliberately small. His new firm, VZVC, co-founded with longtime investor Zach Werner, makes only about five investments a year, has no associates, and leans on AI agents […]