Deena Shakir
General Partner @ Lux Capital
San Francisco, United States
Deena Shakir is a seed investor at Lux Capital in San Francisco focused on Health Care and Medical. Deena Shakir is based out of Bay Area and is the General Partner of Lux Capital. Deena previously worked at GV as a Partner. Deena Shakir attended the Harvard.
- Total investments:
- 25
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 48%
Last updated:
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Industries Deena Shakir invests in
Stages Deena Shakir invests in
Countries Deena Shakir invests in
Investment Focus
Industry
- Health Care 10 (40%)
- Medical 5 (20%)
- Software 5 (20%)
- Artificial Intelligence 4 (16%)
- Wellness 3 (12%)
Stage
- Seed 6 (24%)
- Series A 6 (24%)
- Series B 5 (20%)
- Series C 2 (8%)
- Pre-Seed 1 (4%)
Country
- United States 14 (56%)
- United Arab Emirates 1 (4%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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1001 AI
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1001 AI is building The Sovereign Artificial Intelligence Platform of the Middle East | $30M / Series A / Jun 30, 2026 | |
Trial Library
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Trial Library is an oncology clinical trials company. | $10M / Series A / Dec 02, 2025 | |
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1001 AI
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1001 AI is building The Sovereign Artificial Intelligence Platform of the Middle East | $9M / Pre-Seed / Oct 21, 2025 | |
Bluenote Health
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Bluenote Health operates as an AI platform for life sciences. | $10M / Dec 20, 2024 | |
Summer Health
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Summer Health is the first step and ongoing tool for anyone navigating health concerns, offering timely text access to high-quality healthcare professionals who provide expert answers and reliable advice over text. | $11.7M / Series A / Apr 23, 2024 | |
Daybreak Health
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The Daybreak Health startup uses a mobile app to connect teens to teen-specialized therapists. Daybreak Health specializes in providing online counseling services, especially for teens, helping to stabilize their mental fitness. The company was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States. | $13M / Series B / Aug 08, 2023 | |
Maven Clinic
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Maven Clinic operates an on-demand digital care clinic that assists mothers and families during conception, throughout pregnancy, and postpartum. It offers video appointments and private messaging with its proprietary women's and family health practitioner network, as well as a family benefits platform. Maven Clinic offers its services forIVF and egg-freezing tracks, pregnancy, postpartum, partner, adoption, surrogacy, and loss tracks, and career coaching and support, and customized manager training for HR. It serves individuals, employers, and healthcare professionals. It was founded in 2014 by Katherine Ryder and is headquartered in New York City. | $90M / Series E / Nov 14, 2022 | |
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Trial Library
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Trial Library is an oncology clinical trials company. | $5M / Seed / Aug 18, 2022 | |
Caraway
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Caraway is a digital healthcare company for college women+ that provides integrated mental, reproductive and physical healthcare services. Built with students for students, Caraway arms women+ with the first personalized, equitable and digitally-accessible care solution that prioritizes their needs and concerns. With an unprecedented need formental health resources and new barriers and persistent inequities in women’s+ health, Caraway provides access to trusted, holistic, and compassionate healthcare so women+ can get the care they need when they need it. | $10.5M / Seed / Jul 26, 2022 | |
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Summer Health
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Summer Health is the first step and ongoing tool for anyone navigating health concerns, offering timely text access to high-quality healthcare professionals who provide expert answers and reliable advice over text. | $7.5M / Seed / Jul 25, 2022 | |
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Co-Investors
About Lux Capital
Lux Capital manages over $5 billion in assets focused on founding, seed, early-stage, and growth investments at the intersection of technology and the sciences. Lux takes an active role in helping entrepreneurs build successful businesses in high-growth sectors. Its investment team has built over 20 companies from scratch. Lux's investmentstrategy ensures portfolio companies are better connected, have a deeper insight, and command industry leadership faster than their competitors.
Lux Capital Contacts
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Adam Kalish
General Partner
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Alex Nguyen
Principal
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Brandon Reeves
Partner
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Deena Shakir
General Partner
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Ian Peikon
Venture Partner
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FAQ
What does Deena Shakir invest in?
Deena Shakir invests primarily in Health Care, Medical and Software startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 25 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
When did Deena Shakir last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Deena Shakir closed in Jun 2026. Shizune tracks 25 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.
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Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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