Russell Hirsch
Managing Director @ Prospect Venture Partners
Atlantic City, United States
Russell Hirsch is a seed investor at Prospect Venture Partners in Atlantic City focused on Health Care and Software. Russell is a Managing Director of Prospect Venture Partners. Russell co-founded Prospect Venture Partners II and III, as dedicated life science funds with over $1 billion in capital under management. Prior to establishing Prospect Venture Partners II and III, Russell was a member of the Health Care Technology Group at Mayfield. He joined Mayfieldin 1992, served as a Venture Partner from 1993 to 1994 and as a General Partner from 1995-2000. Russell played a key role in Mayfield's investment activities in the biotechnology and medical device sectors. As an Associate, he participated actively in the incubation of Millennium Pharmaceuticals and as a General Partner he was responsible for the incubation of Intuitive Surgical Devices both of which are now publicly traded. (NASDAQ: MLNM), (NASDAQ:ISRG).Prior to Mayfield, Russell was at the University of California San Francisco from 1984-1992 where he was engaged in biomedical research. His work, published in a variety of respected journals, focused on important aspects of hepatitis B viral replication. His descriptions of the reverse transcription and packaging functions of polymerase gene products merited publication in Nature.Russell serves or has served on the Board of Directors of Intuitive Surgical (NASDAQ: ISRG), Hansen Medical (NASDAQ: HNSN), Opus Medical (NASDAQ: ARTC), Orquest (NASDAQ: JNJ), AVEO Pharmaceuticals, Visiogen, Baxano, Dfine, Allux Medical, SentreHEART, Portola Pharmaceuticals and several other privately-held companies. Russell serves as the Vice Chairman of the BOD of Interplast and on the Genetics Advisory Council of the Harvard Medical School-Partners Healthcare Center for Genetics and Genomics.
- Total investments:
- 5
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 20%
Last updated:
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Industries Russell Hirsch invests in
Stages Russell Hirsch invests in
Countries Russell Hirsch invests in
Investment Focus
Industry
- Health Care 3 (60%)
- Software 2 (40%)
- SaaS 1 (20%)
- Social 1 (20%)
- Content 1 (20%)
Stage
- Seed 3 (60%)
- Pre-Seed 1 (20%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 1 (20%)
Investments
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Sholder
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Sholder, short for Spaceholder™, is a new standard in non-clinical mental & emotional health, powered by compassionate, skilled people from communities like yours. We provide high-affinity, one-to-one emotional support for employees in industries with heavy emotional demand and high burnout rates. | Pre-Seed / Jun 30, 2022 | |
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Sholder
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Sholder, short for Spaceholder™, is a new standard in non-clinical mental & emotional health, powered by compassionate, skilled people from communities like yours. We provide high-affinity, one-to-one emotional support for employees in industries with heavy emotional demand and high burnout rates. | Seed / Jun 30, 2022 | |
datma
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datma is a technology begins with hyperefficient data storage and aggregation solutions for genomic imaging, and other healthcare datasets. We couple this with best-in-class, fully customizable data visualization to ensure clinicians and researchers get the data and insights they need exactly when and how they need them. Findings that areindividually rare may be collectively common. dātma’s solutions for secure data federation ensure that healthcare data stay securely in the data owner’s tenancy while facilitating networked analysis and discovery. | $4M / Venture - Series Unknown / Jun 15, 2022 | |
Enwoven
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Enwoven empowers organizations to combine important assets and context together in the form of dynamic narratives and flexible knowledge bases. Companies create valuable ideas, thoughts and insights that get lost everyday.We work with brands like the NY Times, Coca-Cola, Reebok, Campbell's, Avis, and Procter & Gamble to help themdocument brand history, marketing campaigns, innovation, important initiatives, company culture and much more. | Seed / Nov 04, 2015 | |
Glooko
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Glooko is the universal diabetes platform that provides insights to improve outcomes for people with diabetes (PWDs) and their care teams. Glooko connects to the world’s most popular diabetes devices, major fitness and activity trackers and supplies personalized, timely patient information such as glucose level, food, insulin, medications, bloodpressure, diet and weight data. Trusted by the world’s leaders in diabetes care, we are in over 7,000 clinical locations and used by over 1.5 million PWDs in 23 countries across 15 languages. Learn more by visiting www.glooko.com. | $1M / Seed / Nov 10, 2011 |
Co-Investors
About Prospect Venture Partners
Prospect Venture Partners is a venture capital firm with over $1B of capital under management. The firm is dedicated to investing in outstanding biopharmaceutical and medical device companies. Prospect targets commercially attractive biomedical enterprises with outstanding entrepreneurial management teams, proprietary products, and innovativetechnologies with the potential for significant investment returns. The firm invests in companies with a wide variety of development and financing requirements including new company incubations, first and second venture financing rounds, and later stage private and public companies with proven business models requiring expansion capital.
Prospect Venture Partners Contacts
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David Schnell
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What does Russell Hirsch invest in?
Russell Hirsch invests primarily in Health Care, Software and SaaS startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 5 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 Russell Hirsch last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Russell Hirsch closed in Jun 2022. Shizune tracks 5 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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