# Sharif Vakili

> Sharif Vakili is a seed investor at Polaris Partners backing Hospital and Artificial Intelligence. See 1 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Polaris Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/polaris-partners)
- Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
- Total investments: 1
- Last investment: Jan 2024
- Lead investor: 100%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sharifvakili

Sharif Vakili is a seed investor at Polaris Partners in San Francisco Bay Area focused on Hospital and Artificial Intelligence. Sharif Vakili has a breadth of experience at the intersection of healthcare, entrepreneurship, and academic research. Prior to joining as an associate, Sharif had worked in Business Development for RNA therapeutics company Translate Bio and in healthcare investing for SR One, where he supported cell therapy portfolio companies NKarta and Arcellx inCorporate Strategy roles. Sharif is also the cofounder of USMLE Pro, a medical education company, as well as a resident physician in Internal Medicine at Stanford University. Academically, Sharif has published prolifically in clinical research and healthcare delivery. Sharif holds an MD from the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, an MBA from Harvard Business School, and an MS and BS in Biology from Yale University.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Hospital | 1 | 100% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 1 | 100% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| UpDoc | UpDoc is a technology-enabled services firm that offers the world's first unique conversational AI platform for autonomous prescription management. |  | Seed | Jan 05, 2024 |  |

1 of 1 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Eli Lilly](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/eli-lilly) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Mayo Clinic](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mayoclinic) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Oxeon Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/oxeon-partners) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Pear VC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/pejman-mar-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Polaris Partners

VC Fund · Boston, United States

Polaris Partners invests in healthcare and biotechnology companies. Their healthcare portfolio companies' care delivery models include digital health, consumer-centric businesses, patient-provider solutions, data science, and analytics. Their life sciences and biotechnology portfolio companies focus on molecules and platforms, therapeutics,and genomics.

5 contacts available at Polaris Partners.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Isaac Ciechanover | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/isaac-ciechanover |
| Sharif Vakili | Associate | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sharif-vakili |
| Alan Crane | Partner and Entrepreneur | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alan-crane |
| Alexandra Cantley | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alexandra-cantley-1374 |
| Amir Nashat | Managing Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/amir-nashat |

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## FAQ

### What does Sharif Vakili invest in?

Sharif Vakili invests primarily in Hospital and Artificial Intelligence startups, most often at Seed stage. Most of the 1 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 Sharif Vakili last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Sharif Vakili closed in Jan 2024. Shizune tracks 1 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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